Posted on 09/03/2015 11:41:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The massive parade through the heart of Beijing commemorated Japan's World War defeat seven decades ago.
But the event also underlined President Xi Jinping's determination to make China the pre-eminent Asian power.
Although Xi said the 2.3-million-member People's Liberation Army would be cut back to about 2 million, it will still remain the world's largest standing military and the reduction comes at a time when growing technological capabilities reduce the need for large numbers of troops.
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Of special interest was the appearance of the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile, potentially capable of sinking a US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in a single strike.
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Remember when the Left called Americans “warmongers?”
Lots of dishonesty in the notion that Chinese military played any role in defeat of Japan.
Their forces in Manchukuo were fine, almost intact.
(China) “it will still remain the world’s largest standing military”
Hmmm. Let’s define “standing army”. Say I take all the men/women under arms in China. Then I compare it to all the service personal in the USA, PLUS I add in all those who obtain deer permits in all 50 states (assuming one gun/one person for every deer permit). Add those totals to the US military. Who has the largest standing army now, bitches!
Yeah, but in this case they will give the badge of honor to the Chinese as the world’s Peace Keepers from America’s Tranny of aggressive powers.
Remember the meme in the media about China’s Miracle economy in the last 10 - 15 years or so ?
Now it will be China’s Miracle Military Power to stop the big bad bully that is America.
Yup, And left to their own devices the Japanese would eventually have taken China (and hopefully killed Mao in the process)
Actually, China, Imperial Japan kicked your a$$.
We can all thank filthy basta*rd rapist bill clinton for his chinagate treason - in which china got all our missile guidance technology (Loral)
But to give credit where credit is due, they did fight the Japanese and the Chinese people bled and died because of it. I read that the Japanese killed a quarter million in punishment for helping the Dolittle Raiders.
I remember well those two days when China dropped those A-bombs on Japan. Only a few years after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Reminds me of the old martial arts movies, where the Japanese boss antagonist wore a Hitler mustache.
John Batchelor’s report on this was interesting. The reporter said that the public wasn’t invited, it was not broadcast, and people were even ordered not to view the parade through their windows.
China is a land power looking to develop a navy. Lots of land power on display in the parade. How much of it is real versus how much is for show is unknown. China hasn’t fought a minor skirmish, let alone a major war, since its border affair with Vietnam in the late 1970s. The PLA is really there to control the Chinese people.
No member of the Chinese armed forces (from private to general) has any combat experience. While they have a history of bullying unarmed civilians, the last military engagement was with the battle-hardened Vietnamese over 36 years ago. That did no go well for the Chinese whose previous battles were fought in Korea 26 years earlier. They are a paper army whose leadership, discipline and bravery has yet to be tested against an armed opponent.
Japan gave them a good thrashing and killed millions there, but could never win (China was simply too big). When Japan surrendered they had over a million armed troops in China (and they still hadn’t taken half of it).
Excellent point. However, they all grew up heavily influenced by kung-fu martial-arts movies with a comic-book mindset. A far different mindset is required of a modern military. As you say, untested in battle.
In a conflict between just China and Japan, Japan could have won. The western powers interfered numerous times blocking Japan from taking China. Western powers blocked Japan during the 1894-1895 China/Japan war resulting in China suing for peace. If not for the intervention, all of China would have fallen to Japan then. Same goes for WWII. Japan was fighting multiple western powers while attempting to take China. If not for the Brits and Americans (and others) battling on behalf of China, Japan may well have taken China in WWII. The Chinese did not put up an effective offense against Japan.
Maybe; it is all conjecture at this point. The biggest problem facing Japan was that they could never occupy China in the same manner in which they occupied the Philippines - they just didn’t have enough people. In the same way that the fall of Moscow would not have ended the war on the Eastern Front, there was no point in China that Japan could seize that would end the war. China started fighting Japan in 1931 (over Manchuria), and basically fought them through WWII, then with each other in their civil war, and at the end of that Red China fought us to a stalemate in Korea (22 years later, in 1953).
How was Japan going to beat them?
Same way it has traditionally been done, by setting up puppet governments under their control, going back thousands of years by conquering empires. More recently by the Russians with the Soviet Empire. Japan set up a puppet government in Korea which was a territory of theirs after the China/Japan war of 1894-1895, and Japan controlled it just fine until losing WWII. Japan set up a puppet government in Manchukuo (Manchuria) within China in WWII. Japan did have enough people, they have like a third of our population. Similar to Russia, having few people but held the Soviet Empire together just fine.
The thing about Korea was that it was a limited war due to politics; Americans weren't allowed to do what was necessary to fight off the Chinese. One of the reasons MacArthur lost his job was that Truman wanted it to be a limited war and un-winnable; it had nothing to do with the Chinese ability or inability to fight.
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