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| Xi Jinping: China to build world-class armed forces by mid-21st century |
| 2017-10-21 |
| China's problem right now is to go from the guerrilla army it always has been to a conventional military force. They have to develop combat and logistics doctrine to reflect this. In my mind at some point they will want to test all these new toys against someone. In 2025? The Norks if they survive Trump? Vietnam? India? Anyone? [DefenceBlog] Xi Jinping said Wednesday the Communist Party of China (CPC) will strive to fully transform the people’s armed forces into world-class military by the mid-21st century. By the year 2020, mechanization will be basically achieved, with IT application coming a long way and strategic capabilities seeing a big improvement. The modernization of the national defense and armed forces should be basically completed by 2035, Xi said at the opening session of the 19th CPC National Congress. The CPC will build a powerful and modernized army, navy, air force, rocket force, and strategic support force, develop strong and efficient joint operations commanding institutions for theater commands, and create a modern combat system with distinctive Chinese characteristics, he said. “A military is built to fight,” he said, stressing combat capability as the criterion to meet. Technology is the core combat capability, he said, adding the people’s military will be made more innovative. The CPC will speed up development of intelligent military, and improve combat capabilities for joint operations based on network information system and the ability to fight under multi-dimensional conditions. Founded in 1927, the People’s Liberation Army now commands about two million service personnel. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, the CPC has put forward the goal of building a strong military that follows the Party, fights to win and forges exemplary conduct. A new military structure has been established with the Central Military Commission exercising overall leadership, the theater commands responsible for military operations, and the services focusing on developing capabilities. The military has carried out major missions related to the protection of maritime rights, countering terrorism, maintaining stability, disaster rescue and relief, international peacekeeping, escort services in the Gulf of Aden, and humanitarian assistance. SOURCE: Ministry of National Defense People’s Republic of China |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 That's why Russians always talk about using nukes as needed - they don't mean Baltics, P2k |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-10-21 14:49 |
| #5 In my mind at some point they will want to test all these new toys against someone. In 2025? The Norks if they survive Trump? Vietnam? India? Anyone? Raw resources - Siberia |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-10-21 14:12 |
| #4 Hope they get that far. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-21 14:06 |
| #3 They took the short view, and never looked at the long view. I keep seeing this said over and over and I'm not sure that is really all that wise. Yes in some cases where short is today and long is next year, fine. But the problem is that it is based on hubris that you can know what the long view is. If you only see the forest you wind up eating a lot of bark as you bounce from tree to tree. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-21 12:37 |
| #2 Because they didn;t care for a bunch of 'nobodies' with no money. They catered to the big corporations and the money they donated. They forgot where the money came from in the first place. They took the short view, and never looked at the long view. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-10-21 11:57 |
| #1 Didn't anybody foresee this when we started exporting jobs to them and importing all their plastic crap? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-21 11:07 |