PRC armed forces have all the incentive in the world to lie and make themselves appear as nonthreatening as possible. the longer they can boil the frog the better. they probably fed this disinformation to US intelligence and are quite happy that it is being reported
It's true. According to all sources, the People's Republic of China is strong. The nation is united, the military unmatched, the economy vibrant, and the people ever joyful.
Similarly correct sources verified that China has always been triumphant. In other news, the Chinese government is fair, all-knowing, and wise, propelled by the strength of two billion loyal hands, all pulling together as one under the Great celestial Bureaucracy high above. Experts all agreed that there can be no question of this claim, as this claim is the truth. As of press time, the brute and inexpressive English language could not convey the full magnificence of China, nor its excellence in every arena, nor the protective warmth of the red sun that shines forever on its borders, nor the innumerable glories of its Great Leaders. New reports also indicate that China will grow stronger yet.
This shit always makes me laugh, it's literally the most ungodly God realm you could possibly imagine. PRAISE BE TO THE GOD DMV! MAY YOUR FORMS BE FILED CORRECTLY AND EFFICIENTLY AND MAY YOUR ENEMIES DROWN IN RED TAPE!
To save yourself. Xi needs to look like nothing is his fault. Scapegoating subordinates is a long standing Chinese tradition, and it usually works. Hell, the loyal little dogs are probably expected to thank their boss for letting them die to protect his honor. Back in the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Cao nearly drove his men to mutinee after reducing their rations during a seige, so he blamed one of his quartermasters for corruption and was furious when the quartermaster called it bullshit, so Cao Cao beheaded the insolent subordinate and everyone was happy.
That would be a sensible take if China wasn’t proving itself in nearly every way possible to be an actual paper tiger as of late. Either way we can already see dash cam videos and Liveleak footage by the truckload of China either being peak NPC land or like god himself decided to make Final Destination an actual reality in one country for the lulz. The cultural revolution absolutely demolished China.
The whole world is laughing at China and calling for increased accountability and pro democratic activism as we align on strengthening our democracies. This message is press by a plurality of organic voices.
Russia is the same. Too much grifting and corruption from top to bottom. Both Xi and Putin want corrupt systems that benefit them, and also to be strong enough to project power. You can’t do both.
America does have a face-saving culture, but it's termed "ass-covering" instead. Government coverups are a dime a dozen. For example, the Epstein revelations, Hillary's email servers, Trump's inauguration audience numbers, etc
>thats usa
No, it aint lmao. The entirety of asia is reliant on appearance than actual practicality. The have the incentive to lie in order to look good.
>Nah, that's USA
literally the opposite. Americans (and much of the west in general) are far more critical of their societies and governments than your average chink, and much more willing to go digging in the muck to make their points. Hell, the biggest political divide these days in the U.S. aren't about whether the government and culture should be criticized or not, but rather which parts deserve more criticism than others. The worst thing a gòngfěi will ever say was that some bureaucrat who already got purged wasn't being devoted enough to the regime, or some demographic isn't being patriotic enough despite constantly getting shat-on, and will launch into hysterics at anyone who has the audacity to suggest there might be deeper, more fundamental problems with how things work.
The craziest part of that video was that they were doing live fire in such a cramped space with cinder wall backstops. No one would be using live ammunition in that scenario, yet here they are shooting real bullets.
>cinder wall backstops
You've no doubt seen the videos of superior chinese concrete that can be crumbled by hand, their cinder blocks probably have the strength of styrofoam, so all the risk is on the other side of the wall, safely out of sight.
>Holy shit the Chinese are inventing bullets that bounce back into the body to deal quadruple damage >Spend $381 trillion dollars to design new body armor >U.S. Army invents infantry body armor that can stop up to 35mm APHE and weighs less than 5lbs >The Chinese bullets were just rubber bullets jumping back into target paper
The craziest part of that video was that they were doing live fire in such a cramped space with cinder wall backstops. No one would be using live ammunition in that scenario, yet here they are shooting real bullets.
That is superior way of damaging soft tissues through the use of revolving projectiles. you must reflect on your deeds to truly understand.
They are literally firing less than lethal rubber bullets, which are specifically engineered to impact with the broadside of the projectile, imparting the most kinetic damage to the target without penetration. It's been covered so many times on here and other places this little movie gets posted.
have you ever seen bullets hit a brick wall?
shit sends chunks flying, dust gets kicked up
on top of that, the amount of people being shown shooting at the wall would have made a hole at that point
you CAN see where there were idiot who DID use metal bullets on the backstops though, assuming thats not just chinesium brick being what it is
sure Chang, does this wall look like it's being hit with rubber bullets to you?
those "rubber" bullets are making holes in what seems to be metal metal(?) stand
he's not exactly right but half-way there
it's hard plastic ammo not rubber LTL ammo
that type of ammo was was popular for live-fire training (and qualification shooting in some cases) among european police before the 2000s since it's the exact same as firing for real but you avoid ricochet and sharp metal fragments
you can run a lower powder charge and the bullet cost was something like 5-10% compared to conventional bullets
it was mainly produced in 9mm, .357 etc. common european submachine gun/pistol/revolver but had non-existent availability to civilians
it keyholes consistently because the bullets are so fricking light you can't stabilize them
I've shot it before and it's easy to homebrew since you don't need an absolutely monstrous injection mould system to produce acceptable plastics anymore
if they are what you describe it sounds to me like you wouldn't need injection molding at all. you could just get some plastic rod and cut it to length. a square ended projectile is irrelevant if you aren't expecting it to stabilize anyway. if you can't get rod in the right diameter you could just turn it down on a lathe.
Missiles that require expensive fuel were filled with inexpensive water. I said merchant but this would actually be military chain of command. An empty missile is suspicious. A missile filled with water is heavy. Someone would do this to skim fuel, either to sell off, or because their logistics are beyond stretched thin and they still want to make metrics. It's communist logistics all over again.
the point is that modern missiles use solid fuel, so they should not be capable of containing a liquid I would think. The only kind of missile that could be readily filled with water would be liquid fueled, but they are largely obsolete to my knowledge.
they aren't just plastic rods set to length, there was actual design going on
their surface was grooved and most had a "wheel" type of face that was almost flat - I have no idea what the intention was behind that, except perhaps minimizing what potential was left for ricochet
I forgot what the back looked like exactly but it wasn't just flat either
there were some internal hollow channels within for further reducing weight and increasing crumpling, not a singular hollow because that would have lacked structural strength
the bullets were VERY light
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>there were some internal hollow channels within for further reducing weight and increasing crumpling,
sounds like they might have been extruded then if I am understanding your description correctly, that would make sense since it's very cheap and fast.
I am prepared to grand that those could be rubber training bullets. Even so, would using full sized rubber bullets at that distance be safe as opposed to simunitions/chalk rounds?
When I found out their current military modernization push was driven by the sheer terror in Party circles during Desert Storm as the more powerful Iraqi Army got instagibbed.
It is a physical display of the difference between theoretical science and applied science.
In one having a fudge factor to make equations work is perfectly acceptable. Not so much in the other.
>"Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Thus Xi's anti-corruption drive is just a fancy way to saying, "I want to control everyone." Everyone is corrupt in China, so anyone can be purged."
I wouldn't write them off as a joke (yet) but they have avoided any opportunity to show their skills. Fleeing in Sudan, ignoring distress calls near Yemen, etc. Outside of carefully rehearsed exercises, they've done nothing. It presents an aura of strength but only for internal audiences, very little different than North Korea.
>It presents an aura of strength but only for internal audiences, very little different than North Korea.
I managed to get on a tour of one of their hospital ships some years ago and there was a moment walking through a corridor where it felt like I had entered "North Korea" because they had propaganda music playing from the speakers on a loop, and there was a big poster on the wall depicting a giant Deng Xiaoping looking like Godzilla presiding over the PLAN. It was surreal. They were very insistent on showing off their medical equipment made in China, but most of complicated stuff wasn't.
There was also a funny moment I remember when we entered the bridge and a sailor who had been lazily relaxing on the upper deck was surprised by the sudden arrival of foreigners, jumped up and ran past our group, like "ahh fugg!!" Like he wasn't supposed to be up there napping. There wasn't much going on that day, apparently. They were very polite though.
When I first discovered The Lop Nur Incident and then it was cemented when I found out that the majority of officer training up to the rank of O5 consisted of Marxist dialectics and literal struggle sessions as of 2018.
long story short: Mao's relative (nephew I think?) is a general, decides he wants some reforms in how the military is treated, basically he's afraid of a Stalin like purge and decides to march on Lop Nur - which was THE nuclear storage site at the time in the 60s. Hijinks ensue, nephew steps back thinking he got what he wanted and is dies in mysterious circumstances a few months later. this results in direct control of nuke forces by the CCP for a few decades and was a wake up call for them that they were potentially on the verge of a new warlord era if they didn't crack down and enforce more control
Missiles that require expensive fuel were filled with inexpensive water. I said merchant but this would actually be military chain of command. An empty missile is suspicious. A missile filled with water is heavy. Someone would do this to skim fuel, either to sell off, or because their logistics are beyond stretched thin and they still want to make metrics. It's communist logistics all over again.
Are traffic lights just for show in china? Half of those accidents would have been avoided if there weren't vehicles crisscrossing through intersections like that.
Like 6 years ago when Xi started deleting his opponents. The nail in the coffin was 2021 or so when that guy who was his most vocal critic 'retired' and vanished a week later.
No men are perfect. After seeing how flawed the Russians and Chinese are I won’t be suprised when I find out about corruption in the U.S military as well. Maybe it won’t be so bad, but to think the U.S is infallible is foolish.
In the US the corruption is a company paying a small bribe or giving someone's family member a job in order to get help winning a contract. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darleen_Druyun
What doesn't happen is having the funding stolen or shitty production being approved. The DoD procurement system is too thorough for that to happen. The less than the best products come from the program offices lowering the milestones in order to get a good rating for the program manager right before he moves jobs.
All you have to do is do a web search to see corruption in the US. It isn't a mystery. When they get caught they go to prison.
When I was on a training/test flight and a J-20 illuminated us and then locked on me for more than long enough for my zoomers crew grab a sick profile.
LOW PROB OF INTERCEPT MY ASS LMAO
Couldn't believe it lmao at least the Russians know better.
Chinese army may be inexperienced and filled with corrupt cadres, but the industrial capacity is concerning
US GDP is still slightly higher, but only 15% comes from manufacturing or construction
almost half of China's GDP is industry, the kind that could be geared for war production
it's kind of like WWII USA vs. Japan and US today isn't in the position of US back then
Chinese will eventually learn how to make jets better, cheaper and in far larger volume than USA, just as they learned how to make everything else.
It's a moot point because all that industry still needs imported energy to run, despite the massive push for renewables. They're not self-sufficient and they can't get enough from russia (there are no pipelines large enough and the railway network doesn't have the capacity). In a hot war with China, the winning move is to take control of the shipping lanes leading out of the middle east and cut China off from its oil supply, then throw some sub-launched cruise missiles at their reserve tanks.
Inb4 muh chinese navy - 90% of its tonnage is strictly restricted to operating within spitting distance of a mainland naval base. They can't project force to protect their tankers across the vast oceans.
>In a hot war with China, the winning move is to take control of the shipping lanes
this is why china's silence surrounding the houthis is a double edged sword, they naturally have no incentive to get involved, but they are legitimizing the threatening of international trade via ocean shipping. if blockades were previously off the table the menu has changed
Always suspected they were
but when SteveMRE reviewed two brand new Chinese MRE's and both made him violently sick because they were spoiled it confirmed my belief
around the time xi took "taking a page out of mao's book" too literally and mandated his own book of ideology. he isn't mao and he isn't the kim family, he's more like a chinese trump desperately trying to look like anything more than being in the right place at the right time. all of this signals a nation in decline
>he's more like a chinese trump
That was probably more like Bo Xilai whose purging cleared the way for Xi to reach the top. Xi is still a bureaucrat who rose up within the system (and "selected" from within the ranks of the nomenklatura) rather than trying to make an end-run around it like Bo did which was one source of his downfall.
I think a part of me always knew. On an instinctive level I knew it was impossible for chinks to be a competent and threatening military force. If war actually broke out they'd resort to human wave tactics as has always been their way.
Now that China is weak and the US and the West is too preoccupied with Ukraine it's time for India to strike and achieve the natural borders of Greater Bharat!
I always suspected it but between the balloon incident and recent purges I now know it to be true. I look forward to next week's impotent rage in response to Taiwan's elections.
PRC armed forces have all the incentive in the world to lie and make themselves appear as nonthreatening as possible. the longer they can boil the frog the better. they probably fed this disinformation to US intelligence and are quite happy that it is being reported
It's true. According to all sources, the People's Republic of China is strong. The nation is united, the military unmatched, the economy vibrant, and the people ever joyful.
Similarly correct sources verified that China has always been triumphant. In other news, the Chinese government is fair, all-knowing, and wise, propelled by the strength of two billion loyal hands, all pulling together as one under the Great celestial Bureaucracy high above. Experts all agreed that there can be no question of this claim, as this claim is the truth. As of press time, the brute and inexpressive English language could not convey the full magnificence of China, nor its excellence in every arena, nor the protective warmth of the red sun that shines forever on its borders, nor the innumerable glories of its Great Leaders. New reports also indicate that China will grow stronger yet.
>Celestial Bureaucracy
This shit always makes me laugh, it's literally the most ungodly God realm you could possibly imagine. PRAISE BE TO THE GOD DMV! MAY YOUR FORMS BE FILED CORRECTLY AND EFFICIENTLY AND MAY YOUR ENEMIES DROWN IN RED TAPE!
The masterful use of language in use here reminds me of cultivation media, the greatest cope of chinese culture in fiction.
strategic advantage of purging and executing the head of the rocket force you just placed in that position several months ago?
To save yourself. Xi needs to look like nothing is his fault. Scapegoating subordinates is a long standing Chinese tradition, and it usually works. Hell, the loyal little dogs are probably expected to thank their boss for letting them die to protect his honor. Back in the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Cao nearly drove his men to mutinee after reducing their rations during a seige, so he blamed one of his quartermasters for corruption and was furious when the quartermaster called it bullshit, so Cao Cao beheaded the insolent subordinate and everyone was happy.
>We're just pretending to be moronic
That would be a sensible take if China wasn’t proving itself in nearly every way possible to be an actual paper tiger as of late. Either way we can already see dash cam videos and Liveleak footage by the truckload of China either being peak NPC land or like god himself decided to make Final Destination an actual reality in one country for the lulz. The cultural revolution absolutely demolished China.
The whole world is laughing at China and calling for increased accountability and pro democratic activism as we align on strengthening our democracies. This message is press by a plurality of organic voices.
So AI gen, nobody actually talks like that.
You are embarrassing yourself, CCP shill.
Once you understand how much of China runs on face culture over actually producing anything of value it becomes clear pretty quickly.
Russia is the same. Too much grifting and corruption from top to bottom. Both Xi and Putin want corrupt systems that benefit them, and also to be strong enough to project power. You can’t do both.
Explain how solid booster can be filled with water, genius
>China runs on face culture
Nah, that's USA
>n-no u
strongest wumao retort
America does have a face-saving culture, but it's termed "ass-covering" instead. Government coverups are a dime a dozen. For example, the Epstein revelations, Hillary's email servers, Trump's inauguration audience numbers, etc
>thats usa
No, it aint lmao. The entirety of asia is reliant on appearance than actual practicality. The have the incentive to lie in order to look good.
That does explain the rampant use of plastic surgery in Worst Korea
Hi Hapanda!
>Nah, that's USA
literally the opposite. Americans (and much of the west in general) are far more critical of their societies and governments than your average chink, and much more willing to go digging in the muck to make their points. Hell, the biggest political divide these days in the U.S. aren't about whether the government and culture should be criticized or not, but rather which parts deserve more criticism than others. The worst thing a gòngfěi will ever say was that some bureaucrat who already got purged wasn't being devoted enough to the regime, or some demographic isn't being patriotic enough despite constantly getting shat-on, and will launch into hysterics at anyone who has the audacity to suggest there might be deeper, more fundamental problems with how things work.
>China claims to have purged the CIA
>US reports chinese rockets full of water
>China purges it's own military
Oh I'm laughin
Did you forget the propaganda video where the bullets were keyholing at 10ft?
The craziest part of that video was that they were doing live fire in such a cramped space with cinder wall backstops. No one would be using live ammunition in that scenario, yet here they are shooting real bullets.
>cinder wall backstops
You've no doubt seen the videos of superior chinese concrete that can be crumbled by hand, their cinder blocks probably have the strength of styrofoam, so all the risk is on the other side of the wall, safely out of sight.
That is superior way of damaging soft tissues through the use of revolving projectiles. you must reflect on your deeds to truly understand.
>Holy shit the Chinese are inventing bullets that bounce back into the body to deal quadruple damage
>Spend $381 trillion dollars to design new body armor
>U.S. Army invents infantry body armor that can stop up to 35mm APHE and weighs less than 5lbs
>The Chinese bullets were just rubber bullets jumping back into target paper
They are literally firing less than lethal rubber bullets, which are specifically engineered to impact with the broadside of the projectile, imparting the most kinetic damage to the target without penetration. It's been covered so many times on here and other places this little movie gets posted.
proofs
have you ever seen bullets hit a brick wall?
shit sends chunks flying, dust gets kicked up
on top of that, the amount of people being shown shooting at the wall would have made a hole at that point
you CAN see where there were idiot who DID use metal bullets on the backstops though, assuming thats not just chinesium brick being what it is
Yes, but
isn't a brick wall, it's a chinesium cinder block wall, so whatever point you thought you were making is irrelevant.
>rubber bullets
sure Chang, does this wall look like it's being hit with rubber bullets to you?
those "rubber" bullets are making holes in what seems to be metal metal(?) stand
My skin and organs too can resist same stress like metals!
he's not exactly right but half-way there
it's hard plastic ammo not rubber LTL ammo
that type of ammo was was popular for live-fire training (and qualification shooting in some cases) among european police before the 2000s since it's the exact same as firing for real but you avoid ricochet and sharp metal fragments
you can run a lower powder charge and the bullet cost was something like 5-10% compared to conventional bullets
it was mainly produced in 9mm, .357 etc. common european submachine gun/pistol/revolver but had non-existent availability to civilians
it keyholes consistently because the bullets are so fricking light you can't stabilize them
I've shot it before and it's easy to homebrew since you don't need an absolutely monstrous injection mould system to produce acceptable plastics anymore
if they are what you describe it sounds to me like you wouldn't need injection molding at all. you could just get some plastic rod and cut it to length. a square ended projectile is irrelevant if you aren't expecting it to stabilize anyway. if you can't get rod in the right diameter you could just turn it down on a lathe.
the point is that modern missiles use solid fuel, so they should not be capable of containing a liquid I would think. The only kind of missile that could be readily filled with water would be liquid fueled, but they are largely obsolete to my knowledge.
china till has some liquid fueled icbms, and cruise missiles use liquids too
The point is water weight.
they aren't just plastic rods set to length, there was actual design going on
their surface was grooved and most had a "wheel" type of face that was almost flat - I have no idea what the intention was behind that, except perhaps minimizing what potential was left for ricochet
I forgot what the back looked like exactly but it wasn't just flat either
there were some internal hollow channels within for further reducing weight and increasing crumpling, not a singular hollow because that would have lacked structural strength
the bullets were VERY light
>there were some internal hollow channels within for further reducing weight and increasing crumpling,
sounds like they might have been extruded then if I am understanding your description correctly, that would make sense since it's very cheap and fast.
>Keyholing at 10 feet
superior Chinese ammo at work
why are they training to shoot Mexicans or Filipinos?
I am prepared to grand that those could be rubber training bullets. Even so, would using full sized rubber bullets at that distance be safe as opposed to simunitions/chalk rounds?
Jesus didn’t the changs invent firearms?
You should be concerned that he's actually identified a problem and is attempting to fix it.
>same reasons given for putting Shoigu and Gerasimov in charge
not super worried tbh.
When I found out their current military modernization push was driven by the sheer terror in Party circles during Desert Storm as the more powerful Iraqi Army got instagibbed.
>Great Leader purges the armed forces
Oooh, I've seen this one before!
Nice try chang, but that's in Houston on I-45 near Hobby Airport.
What, your roads don't have style points?
How in the frick? I'm no engineer, but even I think I couldn't frick this up.
It is a physical display of the difference between theoretical science and applied science.
In one having a fudge factor to make equations work is perfectly acceptable. Not so much in the other.
You don't "root out" corruption. Corruption happens when people can't afford a decent living legally. Stop being poor and pretending otherwise.
Corruption also happens when you're the wealthiest man alive so your theory has some holes.
>"Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Thus Xi's anti-corruption drive is just a fancy way to saying, "I want to control everyone." Everyone is corrupt in China, so anyone can be purged."
When the QINA STRONK post started to appear
^^^bad b8 no (You)^^^
I wouldn't write them off as a joke (yet) but they have avoided any opportunity to show their skills. Fleeing in Sudan, ignoring distress calls near Yemen, etc. Outside of carefully rehearsed exercises, they've done nothing. It presents an aura of strength but only for internal audiences, very little different than North Korea.
>It presents an aura of strength but only for internal audiences, very little different than North Korea.
I managed to get on a tour of one of their hospital ships some years ago and there was a moment walking through a corridor where it felt like I had entered "North Korea" because they had propaganda music playing from the speakers on a loop, and there was a big poster on the wall depicting a giant Deng Xiaoping looking like Godzilla presiding over the PLAN. It was surreal. They were very insistent on showing off their medical equipment made in China, but most of complicated stuff wasn't.
There was also a funny moment I remember when we entered the bridge and a sailor who had been lazily relaxing on the upper deck was surprised by the sudden arrival of foreigners, jumped up and ran past our group, like "ahh fugg!!" Like he wasn't supposed to be up there napping. There wasn't much going on that day, apparently. They were very polite though.
When I first discovered The Lop Nur Incident and then it was cemented when I found out that the majority of officer training up to the rank of O5 consisted of Marxist dialectics and literal struggle sessions as of 2018.
What was the The Lop Nur Incident?
Google search just shows some tourists who died in the desert.
long story short: Mao's relative (nephew I think?) is a general, decides he wants some reforms in how the military is treated, basically he's afraid of a Stalin like purge and decides to march on Lop Nur - which was THE nuclear storage site at the time in the 60s. Hijinks ensue, nephew steps back thinking he got what he wanted and is dies in mysterious circumstances a few months later. this results in direct control of nuke forces by the CCP for a few decades and was a wake up call for them that they were potentially on the verge of a new warlord era if they didn't crack down and enforce more control
I don't get the water thing, do they have liquid fueled missiles?
Chinese merchant scams buyer. Tale as old as time.
how would you even get water in there though? if there isn't a tank meant for holding liquids then where would you put it where it wouldn't leak out?
Missiles that require expensive fuel were filled with inexpensive water. I said merchant but this would actually be military chain of command. An empty missile is suspicious. A missile filled with water is heavy. Someone would do this to skim fuel, either to sell off, or because their logistics are beyond stretched thin and they still want to make metrics. It's communist logistics all over again.
any military that does not engage in war engages only in money laundering.
hello, one of the best ways to evaluate your enemy is by watching their car crash complication videos.
please take a look at the following:
enjoy
Are traffic lights just for show in china? Half of those accidents would have been avoided if there weren't vehicles crisscrossing through intersections like that.
>says US intelligence
>Russia is not going to invade Ukraine, you lying American dogs
when I browsed /k/ for the first time in 2006
The very second that you mentioned that it was Chinese.
Like 6 years ago when Xi started deleting his opponents. The nail in the coffin was 2021 or so when that guy who was his most vocal critic 'retired' and vanished a week later.
No men are perfect. After seeing how flawed the Russians and Chinese are I won’t be suprised when I find out about corruption in the U.S military as well. Maybe it won’t be so bad, but to think the U.S is infallible is foolish.
In the US the corruption is a company paying a small bribe or giving someone's family member a job in order to get help winning a contract.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darleen_Druyun
What doesn't happen is having the funding stolen or shitty production being approved. The DoD procurement system is too thorough for that to happen. The less than the best products come from the program offices lowering the milestones in order to get a good rating for the program manager right before he moves jobs.
All you have to do is do a web search to see corruption in the US. It isn't a mystery. When they get caught they go to prison.
When I was on a training/test flight and a J-20 illuminated us and then locked on me for more than long enough for my zoomers crew grab a sick profile.
LOW PROB OF INTERCEPT MY ASS LMAO
Couldn't believe it lmao at least the Russians know better.
This thread again? What the houthis blow out this time?
your mother's pussy
It was never a question bud
When I Wiki'ed Chinese military equipment after playing C&C: Generals got me interested. I was like, "what a fukken ripoff."
Chinese army may be inexperienced and filled with corrupt cadres, but the industrial capacity is concerning
US GDP is still slightly higher, but only 15% comes from manufacturing or construction
almost half of China's GDP is industry, the kind that could be geared for war production
it's kind of like WWII USA vs. Japan and US today isn't in the position of US back then
Chinese will eventually learn how to make jets better, cheaper and in far larger volume than USA, just as they learned how to make everything else.
You do know china lies about what counts as industry right?
It's a moot point because all that industry still needs imported energy to run, despite the massive push for renewables. They're not self-sufficient and they can't get enough from russia (there are no pipelines large enough and the railway network doesn't have the capacity). In a hot war with China, the winning move is to take control of the shipping lanes leading out of the middle east and cut China off from its oil supply, then throw some sub-launched cruise missiles at their reserve tanks.
Inb4 muh chinese navy - 90% of its tonnage is strictly restricted to operating within spitting distance of a mainland naval base. They can't project force to protect their tankers across the vast oceans.
>In a hot war with China, the winning move is to take control of the shipping lanes
this is why china's silence surrounding the houthis is a double edged sword, they naturally have no incentive to get involved, but they are legitimizing the threatening of international trade via ocean shipping. if blockades were previously off the table the menu has changed
Always suspected they were
but when SteveMRE reviewed two brand new Chinese MRE's and both made him violently sick because they were spoiled it confirmed my belief
around the time xi took "taking a page out of mao's book" too literally and mandated his own book of ideology. he isn't mao and he isn't the kim family, he's more like a chinese trump desperately trying to look like anything more than being in the right place at the right time. all of this signals a nation in decline
>he's more like a chinese trump
That was probably more like Bo Xilai whose purging cleared the way for Xi to reach the top. Xi is still a bureaucrat who rose up within the system (and "selected" from within the ranks of the nomenklatura) rather than trying to make an end-run around it like Bo did which was one source of his downfall.
Bo fricked up because he married a crazy woman. In my experience Asian women are batshit.
I think a part of me always knew. On an instinctive level I knew it was impossible for chinks to be a competent and threatening military force. If war actually broke out they'd resort to human wave tactics as has always been their way.
Now that China is weak and the US and the West is too preoccupied with Ukraine it's time for India to strike and achieve the natural borders of Greater Bharat!
>only half of australia
cowards, they said all the islands
I always suspected it but between the balloon incident and recent purges I now know it to be true. I look forward to next week's impotent rage in response to Taiwan's elections.
>Taiwan's erections
So crose.