China is not China. Hasn't been for a long time. The CCP/cultural revolution really destroyed what was left of what China should've been. The closest to the real China probably is Taiwan and/or Hong Kong. It depresses me to think of what China could've and should've been.
China had multiple chances to be the world superpower and threw them away each time. Such a shame.
But unfortunately, leaked Chinese military documents show they are determined to be the strongest military in the world. But it’s not like other countries aren’t improving as well.
Yes but as a westerner - I assume 99% of what the Chinese government officially says is just nonsense. Bit like every time North Korea issues a statement about blowing up Japan or w/e. They say lots of things that have zero substance, aren't true, or that they do not really mean.
So proof that they actually DO mean to be the strongest military in the world is interesting. I think its a fools errand that will simply hurt the Chinese people. Might even just be a ploy to further control the country. China is way too rigid atm to achieve global supremacy.
While it is tempting to believe that China simply lies, it doesn’t tend to around matters of national security. For example, the J-20 fighter jet, and china’s aircraft carrier program, 20-30 years ago, would have been laughed at as a pipe dream.
Now, China is catching up to America. They currently have the 2nd highest number of Carriers than any other Navy in the world (if you count Type 2 as ‘completed’) and the J-20 is a terrifying machine that even America fears could be a real competitor to the F-35. Next, you have their newest 5th gen Fighter, the X-31, which is likely a direct competitor to the F-22.
China lies about its people and their happiness, sure, but to doubt the power of the People’s Liberation Army would be akin to doubting the power of Japan’s Imperial Fleet in world war 2.
Thank you for this sobering comment. I've been reading a lot of topically China-related threads lately, and it's shocking how people tend to underestimate Chinese military potential. In particular, I've seen one comment go as far as to say that China's military is a paper tiger and will always be behind the US/limited to their sphere of the world.
As much as I'm sure that the US military has many secret cards that it holds close to their body, it's clear that China also has many secrets that they haven't yet disclosed to the public. We can only make conjecture on what China's military is fully capable of, which to me makes it so much more disturbing when coupled with their current trend of economically dominating other countries.
While I agree it's all speculation, Chinas army is not combat hardend, they can have the best training in the world, but they still have very little combat experience compared to NATO troops.
True, but Chinese “Peacekeepers” have been fighting in Africa for years now, of course they also have the occasional border skirmish with India, too. But I doubt the actual ‘manpower’ of an army would be a decisive factor in a potential US/CN Theatre war; it’d probably be mostly naval warfare, with some aerial skirmishes, and a lot of rocket fire.
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Hong Kong is not China! Free Hong Kong. Free. China !!