Topic: China getting ready? - page 2. (Read 372 times)

It's really everyone's business.   Taiwan makes all the advanced chips.    If China attacks, regardless if they capture the factory or it is destroyed, it will set technology back a few years for everyone.

Most leader don't act on their own, they have advisors, the military crowd also ha s word to say.

No.  If you know anything about Taiwan, you'd know that there are few suitable landing sites on the island, all of them easily defended by steep mountains.  Invasion would be impossible for a clown force like the PLA.

Also, I don't see Trump being friendly to China.  His shtick is peace through strength. 

Yes and the sole deterrent to a takeover is the US. The US has quite a lot of bases, not that they surround China but enough to feel their presence.
Luckily for the US China is getting very close to the Philippines which could get out of hand earlier than a takeover of Taiwan.

So far the dissolution of the US is often promoted by the leftist autor group, here and in the www.

Still the US has the ability to renew and is better prepared for it. 
In the end most social networks are from the US and they are not the only bad factor. Low quality Food, low quality TV, the ability to overestimate their own skills all that is born out of ignorance. And Worldwide Ignorance is on the raise. A factor China, India also have their quarrels with.

I don't think those signals of China getting ready for a conflict necessarily mean they are going to fight against the United States (at least not directly). I sounds more reasonable to me Xi is getting ready to start a military operation on Taiwan and recover the island for it to be completely under the control of the CCP.
Let us remember there is an important percentage of the Republican party who believes the USA is not supposed to police the world and Ukraine and Taiwan are for them to be left at their own luck when facing invasions. The CCP could be planning to take advantage of such situation during the government of Trump or someone within the Republican party who will refuse to be hostile against Russia and China.

The BBC has a piece on that

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58393763

The article is followed by a list and I only have seen one Black hawk Helicopter on Youtube in the parade a year after the not so happily executed withdraw.
You have to understand that if your mind harbors hate your opinion will be tainted.
Dogmatic blinds people.

The biggest difference between Armees nowadays is their training. Some are trained most are untrained.
Reckless flying and arrogance helps to get shot down.

The US Air Force dev team connecting 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build a supercomputer helps to explain forward thinking. It saved the US Airforce some 15 million for a Supercomputer. 
 

You don't seem to grasp the significance of it so let me put it this way.
For example after the Great Escape, Taliban became the owner of the second largest Apache attack helicopter army in the world! That's how much they left behind... and that's just one of the things they left.

Not to mention that a sample of everything that was left behind during the escape were given to the adversaries for research (finding vulnerabilities, reverse engineer if needed, etc.).

I haven't even gotten into all the classified stuff they left behind when they were escaping Afghanistan. From documents all the way to communication secrets.

What they physically left behind might have been in the billions of dollars but the damage to the US military was in the trillions...
One major damage for instance was for all the operations US military carries out using the locals. All those idiots who were cooperating with the US occupiers in any country around the world realized what US does to them after they saw Afghanistanians fall from US wide-win aircraft to their death, people who were promised US citizenship if they cooperated with their occupiers against their own country.
The subsequent major US military defeats in places like Syria, Iraq and even in Africa can be attributed to the Great Escape...

I don't know, you tell me how did that help US Air Force for example this morning when they lost another $40 million dollar aircraft after it entered Yemeni airspace. That's the 12th one that gets shot down easily over the past year.

A political withdraw is hardly a run away. True there was no time to take out their hardware. Still the hardware was paid for and the US Armee is not drilled to save money. Rather the opposite.

How is this fitting in your narrative:


This is admirable:



Source: https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html

They have been preparing for several years, but I think they will attack Taiwan sometime. But that's their business.

For the past two decades (at least) the US so called "firepower" has only existed in movies HolyWood is paid to produce, not in reality. Lest we forget, US military was defeated by cavemen in Afghanistan and they fled the country 3 years ago leaving behind $100 billion worth of weapons and equipment during their escape!

Compared to most countries US military has nothing really useful anymore, it is just too expensive!

• The number of kids US Army can recruit sets a new low every year.
• The US Navy keeps decommissioning ships (17 last month) since they no longer have enough crew (China added 30 more ships to the Navy!).
• The US Airforce that was once ahead of the air-defense technology is now at least one generation behind it (to put simply US has no stealth aircraft anymore). Just look how easily their largest SEAD operation in history failed miserably exactly 2 weeks ago!
• They can't even produce enough weapons anymore (lacking artillery shells, missiles, missile defenses, armor, etc.)

One of my favorites is the $12 million joke called SM-3 (intercept missiles) which they can produce 12 of it per year. That is about 1 per month.
Iran alone can launch 12 ballistic missiles every 1.44 minutes (that is an average of 12000 per day for 5 years straight without running out of what is in storage already). Not that US made missile defenses (like SM-3 missiles) could intercept any of it as we've seen on 2024-04-13 and again on 2024-10-01, but even if they could succeed 100%, an entire year's production would only last for like 2 minutes

China is a joke.  The PLA is only there to oppress their own people.  They know they wouldn't stand a chance against NATO.  Western media outlets run these stories hyping China because it's good for views.

Look at it this way: Russia was #2 in military power and couldn't even handle Ukraine, which was like #60.  China is considered even weaker than Russia.

The West has no competition.

Does anyone have credible information on training? TIKTTOK not being accepted.

Fitting Title: 
According to the author:

Source:  https://www.economist.com/china/2024/11/04/in-some-areas-of-military-strength-china-has-surpassed-america
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What will happen once the Chinese pass the US Firepower?
How are the war doctrines? Training and preparation vs ?