Hey, thanks for the write-up, this is cool. Do you have any latency issues with the video? If so, or you want to lower the bitrate for responsiveness over WAN, you might want to look into integrating gst-wayland-display and gstreamer.

“fucking around in the South China” = sailing in international waters as defined by the UNCLOS, to which China is a signatory

“US keeps trying to use the Taiwan situation as a wedge issue” = maintaining the status quo in the face of repeated, overt invasion threats

“desperately want a proxy war” = can’t allow an oligo-fascist state to seize control of the single-path source of chips that enable modern life

“no western news coverage of this” = I don’t look at the news