[akarambir]

A somewhat similar situation happened with India when in 1999, India-Pak Kargil war, the US denied India access to its GPS satellites. It forced India to have its own Regional Navigation System(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Sat...).

Countries realise that US acts as bully when they can. China just is acting in its own interest. Though as an Indian, I have my own problems with China policies, the US companies crying about IP theft is just them not owning upto their previous actions(of shifting major IP to china due to cheap labour).

[_iyig]

It sounds like you many think GPS is property of the global community, and access to it - which the U.S. freely grants worldwide for the public good - is some kind of right. It is not. GPS was financed, developed, and deployed by the United States government, originally for military purposes. It is operated and maintained by the United States Air Force. American taxpayers foot the bill for this maintenance.

If we return to your example, we find India prosecuting a war with the use of American military technology. How exactly is it "bullying" for the U.S. to deny India access to this advanced capability? India is free to fund, launch, and maintain their own GPS alternative for Indian military purposes.

[chmod775]

> India is free to fund, launch, and maintain their own GPS alternative for Indian military purposes

That's (more or less) what everyone is doing right now... Military use optional.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_S...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigatio...

Any aliens observing us creating 4 redundant navigation systems must think we're fucking mental.