motomech said:
I understand there are "hurt feelings" dating back to the "colonial period of the 1920's", on into the horible treatment during WWll. But hey, Mao was no Staint.
But i think in the main, although they are building up their capabilities, at this point and time. . . .
They're sure capable of talking about an aircraft carrier that dwarfs any the U.S. has, but rather than building they buy an old Ukrainian carrier that has a way of becoming stranded at sea.They float all sorts of intelligence reports obviously intended to be intercepted, covering all sorts of high tech weapons there's no signs they really have.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-aircraft-carrier-stacks-up-to-other-world-powers-2015-9 Look at the U.S. Navy attack carriers and amphibious assault ships compared to the rest of the world.
The Chinese talk as though they were the hub of culture and ruled the world for thousands of years, but those years were a time of the Chinese being enslaved until their rulers died off, or of paying off the local warlords to not invade them. There's the one story of the fleet of ships that sailed down the river and awaited the moment to attack with the ships tied firmly side to side so nobody drifted away. Someone started a fire on deck and it jumped to ships on both sides, fairly quickly much of the fleet was destroyed. To the Chinese skill is luck and luck is skill, so this was treated as a masterful victory. If a sudden flood wiped out an attacking force, Chinese history records it as a great conquest.
In the 1800's, the time of the Opium wars, the feigned 'Boxer rebellion,' etc., came the century of humiliations. When the Communists first rose to power in the 1920's, (Yes, Chiang Kai Shek was a commie) there began a long string of public figures speaking of "Self Strengthening." Nothing much came of it until the world's manufacturers began moving jobs there. Of course the Chinese philosophy was that their brilliant strategy was finally working.
While they were waiting, the Japanese invaded. The 'Locust soldiers' would front the invaders, then seemingly vanish. They'd turn up attacking some outpost, etc. Avoiding direct confrontation, they kept from being conquered for 4 years, as the rest of Asia fell in months. Although the U.S. and Britain were helping.
The current Chinese strategy for war with the U.S. would be for the American ships to have mechanical trouble while the Chinese wait for Russia to take advantage and attack the U.S. Ultimately the Chinese would take credit for it all. War with the U.S. isn't going to be anything like provoking revolutions in African countries so they can take over later. The Chinese themselves would have to fight this war. Does the expression "Chinese fire drill? mean anything to you?
