https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/chinas-first-aircraft-carrier-was-really-going-be-casino-187052
All the global powers are collapsing under the weight of their own domestic problems: corruption in Russia and China, wokeism, bureaucracy, and internal division in the US and Europe. And demographic decline is the elephant in the room.
Taiwan needs to be tough and rely on support from USA (and Japan) and they'll be fine.
This writer is an idiot.
He thinks corruption in Chicomland has not been endemic and rampant for decades?
He unknowingly admits his ignorance and idiocy here: “ Xi Jinping has been dealing with more internal struggles than were previously let on.”
He is too stupid to have known anything.
Apparently Xi doesn’t understand the meaning of “Made in China.”
Welcome to the party, pal, your products suck!
Everyone in China is corrupt, from the Central Committee down to the fruit monger on the curb.
Worse than us, even.
And their age pyramid is the wrong shape.
I was sure this would be the Bee… 🤔
LMAO!!! Water rockets! What a MAROON!
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/chinas-first-aircraft-carrier-was-really-going-be-casino-187052
Go to You Tube and look at the videos of what things are like in China. Buildings that fall down because they’re made of crap, ‘’steel rebar’’ that’s actually breakable plastic. The corruption in China is mind blowing.
China’s population may be shrinking, but they still can’t feed themselves.
Dontcha need a HUGE air compressor to “charge” those missiles using water as fuel?
Once the furor dies down, the old policies will return - there is just too much money to be made. If you think the Russian military is corrupt, China’s is even more so.
The major flaw in this article is the reliance and reference on US intelligence.
I have watched several videos of Chinese carrier operations. They take 10 minutes to get a jet from the lower deck to the flight deck and launched. Each elevator can only fit one aircraft and it is parked with the wheel right on the outer edge of the elevator so the nose can clear it.
How many planes can we launch in ten minutes from one of our aircraft carriers?
It's a thousands year old cultural thing that not even the hardcore maoists were ever able to overcome.
China is in such turmoil that it is not a presently capable adversary.
While Joe is partially right, he missed completely the fact that it is Xi and the CCP that has purposely created the turmoil that has destroyed China’s ability to exist much less project. What was, isn’t.
The Chinese have an expression. Tofu dreg. The expression was common slang describing crumbling buildings made of tofu.
It would seem that tofu dreg extends to militantly preparedness as well as the entire economy
Wonder how many Chinese are on our aircraft carriers studying how operations work? If they can infiltrate university research systems they can sure do the same to the military.
not even the average joe in China really wants a war with anyone.
War is a product of becoming an “elite”....and generally appears to be waged to prevent the domestic uprising of those the elite have abused in their own countries.
When they get uppity...cannon fodder time