China to announce biggest military budget increase in nearly a decade as Asian arms race heats up

[Abacin]

Talk of yourself and not about all 1.4 billion Chinese. Li is just a shadow, Xi is the one that is responsible for everything.

You have no idea of Chinese politics. Li and former Premier Wen belongs to the right wing. Most economic positions are filled by Wen followers and inherited by Li. Now Xi is using corruption to purge them and trying to fill in his followers. The volatility in Chinese financial markets are just a reflection of this struggle. The losing right wing is trying to create troubles for Xi.

Believe me. In next term, Li will be kicked out of Premier positon and go to fill in Chair of Chinese congress. Their preference of free market economy is creating turmoils and taken advantage by foreign capitals. China needs socialism market economy, a balance of scientific planning and market economy.

 

[ito]

You have no idea of Chinese politics. Li and former Premier Wen belongs to the right wing. Most economic positions are filled by Wen followers and inherited by Li. Now Xi is using corruption to purge them and trying to fill in his followers. The volatility in Chinese financial markets are just a reflection of this struggle. The losing right wing is trying to create troubles for Xi.

In the age of internet and social media, what you know about China cannot be significantly greater than what I know of China. Xi is certainly doing a lot on bringing down corruption, but he is also more dictatorial than any of the Chinese presidents of the recent past. He has usurped the power of the premier.The present premier was just a shadow of the past Chinese premiers

 

[Abacin]

In the age of internet and social media, what you know about China cannot be significantly greater than what I know of China. Xi is certainly doing a lot on bringing down corruption, but he is also more dictatorial than any of the Chinese presidents of the recent past. He has usurped the power of the premier.The present premier was just a shadow of the past Chinese premiers

Yes. Xi took the leading position but it takes to fill in the executing positions with his followers. The past Chinese premier Wen was quite powerful with a strong clique controlling economic and financial positions.

China is not like India or USA. When you get elected, you can fill in critical positions with your men right way. China favors smooth transitions. It takes time to fill in critical positions with your men.

Even Mao couldn't replace someone without solid reasons and got support from politburo. Xi needs to wait for their mistakes and then replace them.

If Mao could replace someone so easily, then he didn't need cultural revolution at all. At that time Mao found that even if he held chairman position, he even couldn't publish a paper on official newspapers. Those editors loyal to Liu rejected his papers. Then Mao used some mistakes by those editors on one book to slowly start the cultural revolution.

 

[retaxis]

Ito don't talk about sh1t you don't understand. You think the communist party of china is like NK communist party but its a completely different animal altogether with multiple factions and sectors working against each other. Only the chinese understand what is truly going around within the party, the Western media just lumps it as one big sum. You can't read Chinese nor know of any high ranking communist party members by any chance do you? I didn't think so. Please keep your mouth shut if its going to be another generalised comment that a 3rd grade inner suburbs kid from America can make.

 

[Abacin]

Strictly you cannot call Mao dictators because he only could execute his policies through majority in Politburo.

Actually since Tang dynasty, even Chinese emperors were not dictatorial because his orders had to go through the cabinet process. Many cabinet ministers were brave enough to decline the emperor's request. The emperor then had to find some mistakes to replace this minister first. Confucian required emperors to follow orders. If not, the emperor didn't have enough morality, everyone could overturn him.

By Confucian standard, Kim III is completely a tyrant. In most cases, the emperors were killed or replaced in a few years. China is so large. It is easy to find rebels and many people would follow. Kim III can still survive because North Korea is way smaller than China.

 

[Viet]

Xi is preparing for a war. China hasn't fought a war for 30 years and many Chinese neighbors and United States become belligerent toward China. Mao fought two wars with United States, Korean War and Vietnam War (proxy war) and United States realized that peace with China was the only solution.

Since pivotal to Asia, many Americans and their pawns forget historical lessons and start to provoke China. Only a war can shut up this provoking. A SCS war, a Taiwan unification war, a Eastern China Sea war or a Korean war is very likely. Just as Korean War and Vietnam War stopped a USA dream on Asia continent; a navy war will stop USA dream within 1st island chain.

With the intensive involvement of missiles and strong support from land bases, chances for a United States win are very slim. China and United States will only find a balance between 1st island chain and 2nd island chain.

United States tries to pick up SCS as a possible battlefield since SCS is far from Chinese land bases and close to Philippines bases. While China is actively establishing island chain bases through island reclamation, United States is actively strengthening its Philippines bases. SCS and Philippines have been turned to high risk future battle field.

don´t delude yourself. China soldiers repaired bridges and roads in VN. they were not there for combat missions. many of them died simply because they failed to run away fast enough when the US warplanes were approaching.

 

[retaxis]

So that mean, in future Vietnam, phillipines and India soils will be battle ground for China and US? india, Vietnam and phillipines should be back to Stone Age era. Since their are US bitches.

China and US will never fight as US has already lost the war. The demographic and ideological war. Americans growing up today only want to paint or work in music with long hair and long beards while letting the mexicans and africans outbreed them. In 30years time America will be like Brazil with a very elite class and the rest a bunch of dreamers. Only war America is going to fight is a civil war if anything

 

[Viet]

So that mean, in future Vietnam, phillipines and India soils will be battle ground for China and US? india, Vietnam and phillipines should be back to Stone Age era. Since their are US bitches.

well, I put my bet on Beijing and Shanghai and other low life cities in China as next battlefields.

 

[Abacin]

In Ancient China, Killing a governer or a minister

don´t delude yourself. China soldiers repaired bridges and roads in VN. they were not there for combat missions. many of them died simply because they failed to run away fast enough when the US warplanes were approaching.

Yes. At the peak, there were more than 100,000 soldiers for engineering works otherwise your logistics couldn't last at all. Also without the 17 degree line agreement between China and United States, the United States could bombard Hanoi to trashes and Vietnam had no chance to win at all because Hanoi would be destroyed much earlier than Saigon.

 

[sweetgrape]

In the age of internet and social media, what you know about China cannot be significantly greater than what I know of China. Xi is certainly doing a lot on bringing down corruption, but he is also more dictatorial than any of the Chinese presidents of the recent past. He has usurped the power of the premier.The present premier was just a shadow of the past Chinese premiers

Yeah, in internet, there are huge information, but also more fake and cheat, and most of video and article you read and watch are writed by foreign, not Chinese, they really know China? don't think the candidate talk well before be in power, so, they are really compatent as a leader,

 

[Viet]

China and US will never fight as US has already lost the war. The demographic and ideological war. Americans growing up today only want to paint or work in music with long hair and long beards while letting the mexicans and africans outbreed them. In 30years time America will be like Brazil with a very elite class and the rest a bunch of dreamers. Only war America is going to fight is a civil war if anything

go back to school, little boy. actually the chinese civil war has not ended, see TW, while the US civil war ended long ago. as for the rest of the post, have you ever been to America?

 

[Abacin]

In Ancient China, Killing a governer or a minister was a very serious decision for the emperor since each governor controlled a province as large as a large European country. For example, Ming emperor killed a Manchu vice governor in North East. His son rebelled and founded Manchu kingdom. Later the grandson even conquered the whole Ming and established the Qing Dynasty. When the West called China dictatorial, this just means that they knew nothing about China and Confucian.

 

[Viet]

Yes. At the peak, there were more than 100,000 soldiers for engineering works otherwise your logistics couldn't last at all. Also without the 17 degree line agreement between China and United States, the United States could bombard Hanoi to trashes and Vietnam had no chance to win at all because Hanoi would be destroyed much earlier than Saigon.

I just wanted to correct you because you claimed "Mao fought the war in VN". No, correct is chinese helped repairing what the US destroyed.

second, no, you are wrong. there was NO such 17 degree line agreement between China and United States. if anything, then it was the threat of the USSR to escalate the war. besides, the US and South VN ground forces made several attempts to invade North VN, however that failed miserably.

 

[Abacin]

I just wanted to correct you because you claimed "Mao fought in VN". No, correct is chinese helped repairing what the US destroyed.

I marked it as proxy war. Mao used Korean War and Vietnam war to guarantee the land safety of China from United States. If US crossed 17 degree line, you would see full participation of Chinese armies, same as in Korean War.

Now China clearly wants sea safety to control the first island chain. There is a huge possibility that China wants to unify Taiwan under Xi's term. United States wanted to trap China in East China Sea with Japan but Senkaku is too close to Taiwan and Mainland. Then United States shifted to South China Sea. Here with Philippines land support, China military advantage is greatly weakened. But the disadvantage is that United States has no solid approaches for Chinese island reclamation. As soon as China establishes island chain of bases, USA will feel strong pressure. But if USA retreats, China will refocus on Taiwan unification.

 

[Viet]

I marked it as proxy war. Mao used Korean War and Vietnam war to guarantee the land safety of China from United States. If US crossed 17 degree line, you would see full participation of Chinese armies, same as in Korean War.

Now China clearly wants sea safety to control the first island chain. There is a huge possibility that China wants to unify Taiwan under Xi's term. United States wanted to trap China in East China Sea with Japan but Senkaku is too close to Taiwan and Mainland. Then United States shifted to South China Sea. Here with Philippines land support, China military advantage is greatly weakened. But the disadvantage is that United States has no solid approaches for Chinese island reclamation. As soon as China establishes island chain of bases, USA will feel strong pressure. But if USA retreats, China will refocus on Taiwan unification.

you don´t know the fact:

the Vietnam war escalated to a full confrontation, reaching the boiling point in 1972. but following the Sino-USSR political crisis in the late 1950s, your relation to the Soviets finally came to the breakdown in 1965, China stopped all supports and assistance to North Vietnam. do you see the time gap?

besides, China wanted to fight to the last Vietnamese, not to help Vietnam to win the war.

as for conquering TW, I wish you all the best. I suggest you to study what it needs to launch a successful invasion ashore. a good example is how the Allies landed on the Normandy in the WW II.

as for your thoughts regarding to the US, Japan and Philippines reactions, you make too much positive assumptions. a small wind gust will blow all of your assumptions away.