Posted on 09/19/2007 10:22:57 PM PDT by DTAD
The Chinese military has begun a two-day drill testing a system that provides commanders real-time battlefield data, signaling the continued modernization of the nation’s massive armed forces.
The exercise is part of an ambitious effort to improve military information collection systems, one of the main shortfalls of the otherwise rapidly modernizing People’s Liberation Army, the Xinhua news agency reported Sept. 19.
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So the Lenovo purchase of IBM yields some results. I have been so worried they didn't get anything special out of that deal.
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“It’ll take us ten years to catch up...”
Said the Fox walking into the hen house. Like this guy is going to tell us what his actuall assessment is.
If 10 years is the maximum they need to “catch up to the most sophisticated militaries,” we may as well roll over now.
Took a long time for them to use the info Clinton sold them.
This is just one system. It doesn’t equate to full parity in ten years.
It is interesting to watch them progress though.
USA has the best C4ISTAR in the history of war. The closest people are UK. Then France. Then Russia, Japan, Isreal. It would take them 10 years (and us to stand still) to catch up. China is many generations of technology away...granted the time they needed was cut into third due to 90’s blue light special on our techs.
“This is just one system. It doesn’t equate to full parity in ten years.”
But it’s a major component of the modernization process, and if they were able to reach parity in field data management it would be a tectonic achievement. I’ve seen nothing to indicate they’re merely a decade away from catching up, but it’s interested to see the increasingly uncontested claims. Not too long ago China was decades or generations behind the U.S. in military technology. Today they’re increasingly described as approaching parity on a number of fronts just over the horizon. (Not simply closing the gap, or reaching our current position in 10 years, but pulling even.)
Either the China hysteria is becoming more of an across-the-board gullibility magnified by the parallel impression of a rapidly waning US (an impression which we have done seemingly everything in our power to foster), or a nation that will still be early in its development process and significantly economically smaller in 10 years time is going to present us with near-peer or asymetric challenges that limit our freedom of action and influence to nothing more than Britan or France possess today.
I assume that the system they are referring to over here is a datalink-If they get help from Europe & Israel(or rather steal),they may go further than expected in 10 years.
There is a lot of hype concerning China. I agree. Even with the hype there is this, ho hum yawn response from our citizens. There is only one reason why China is arming. You and I know it.
Now it doesn’t matter what you or I think. It only matters what China’s leadership thinks. Gererals be damned, when the time comes China’s leadership will make the decision.
You and I think in American terms. You can I would hate to see one U.S. city taken out. I’m not convinced China’s leadership would share that view when it comes to their own citizens. They could lose 500 million of them and still be one billion strong. We are talking about a communist leadership here.
We could go round about capabilities all day. At the end of the day I think you’d still be in a good position regarding our ability to overcome China. I just have to wonder at what price.
We’re betting with a nation that doesn’t value life like you and I do, and we’re probably not prepared to lose what it will cost us, even if we do prevail rather quickly.
We shall see over time.
I appreciate your comemnts. Take care.
I look at some of the ships they’ve already built and find it very interesting what they’ve come up with. These are first generation weapons. China has only just started arming. They’re not going for decades old tech.
We’ve supplied the electronics through trade. What we didn’t they may have stolen. And now we’re faced with a growing migraine.
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