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EastisEast
Joined: 29 May 2014 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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The Chinese are already building the necessary infrastructure and doctrine to be able to get what it wants quickly and painlessly, at least in the eyes of the Chinese military. |
China? Military? Its a Communist country isn't it? What military doctrine could it follow but attrition, as it always had.
Challenge USA and Allies? With what? Suicide.
It could rattle its sabre like North Korea.
China is in a bad position for any type of war now. Bad allies, new untested military, shaky government dependent on their 'enemies' trade and money.
The leaders now are no Zhukov or Manstein.
China would lose all if it went to war right now. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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EastisEast wrote: |
China? Military? Its a Communist country isn't it? What military doctrine could it follow but attrition, as it always had. |
Don't know much about China, do you? It's not really a communist country. First off, it's a one party state. Yes, the one party is called the Communist Party of China, but that's just its name. Second, the country is now and has been for a few decades riding the capitalist wave and riding it hard.
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Challenge USA and Allies? With what? Suicide. |
It would only be suicide if either China or the US were to attack with nuclear weapons. Nobody with actual knowledge of the dynamics of China-US relations believes that will happen.
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It could rattle its sabre like North Korea. |
Saber-rattling is pretty much all North Korea has, and that with a toy saber. China is a different proposition. China has major economic power, is a regional military power, and is not prone to the problems plaguing North Korea.
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China is in a bad position for any type of war now. Bad allies, new untested military, shaky government dependent on their 'enemies' trade and money.
The leaders now are no Zhukov or Manstein. |
These two you got right.
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China would lose all if it went to war right now. |
Which is why China is not planning on going to war with the US or any other "first world" country. |
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EastisEast
Joined: 29 May 2014 Location: Canada
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:58 am Post subject: |
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You must not know about systems of government. Well, let me school you son
Commie governments can be capitalist and still communist. Lenin had his NEP style economics yet Russia was run by commissars and the lash.
Commie Chinas government system would be instantly recognizable by Stalin, Lenin and Mao would be happy too.
They still shoot you for speaking up about anything they dont like. They still send your families to gulags and slave pits.....they still sell your babies if you dont believe in the party. You can ask the US who bought a few thousands of them in the past decade when there was a sale.
In a national crisis, China will revert to form and throw human waves at the enemy, with commissars waiting for any one who turn back .. |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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EastisEast wrote: |
You must not know about systems of government. Well, let me school you son
Commie governments can be capitalist and still communist. Lenin had his NEP style economics yet Russia was run by commissars and the lash.
Commie Chinas government system would be instantly recognizable by Stalin, Lenin and Mao would be happy too.
They still shoot you for speaking up about anything they dont like. They still send your families to gulags and slave pits.....they still sell your babies if you dont believe in the party. You can ask the US who bought a few thousands of them in the past decade when there was a sale.
In a national crisis, China will revert to form and throw human waves at the enemy, with commissars waiting for any one who turn back .. |
I'll bite, you ol' troll you.
Having once spent a decade in the Party back in my youth, pray tell me all about the Commies. Specifically Communist doctrine, not boring hysteria about what all the other authoritarian governments do.
"That Hussein Obama is forcing folk to have health insurance! It's f-ing Communism I tells ya! The damn gubmint!" |
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EastisEast
Joined: 29 May 2014 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Comrade! You've been a Party member?? The Comsomol or Young Maoist Brigade??
Then how can you say that China is not communist anymore? Clearly, you are still working for the Party
Not all governments go for the balls like Commie governments do, they diff'rent .. son. |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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EastisEast wrote: |
Comrade! You've been a Party member?? The Comsomol or Young Maoist Brigade??
Then how can you say that China is not communist anymore? Clearly, you are still working for the Party
Not all governments go for the balls like Commie governments do, they diff'rent .. son. |
I was in the youth league, and then moved on to full Party membership. Some of the best and most decent people I have ever known.
I still like them, but couldn't be arsed with the other grab-bag of freaks and ghouls that radical organisations tend to attract. So I let my membership lapse and went to Korea. |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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EastisEast wrote: |
You must not know about systems of government. Well, let me school you son
Commie governments can be capitalist and still communist. Lenin had his NEP style economics yet Russia was run by commissars and the lash.
Commie Chinas government system would be instantly recognizable by Stalin, Lenin and Mao would be happy too.
They still shoot you for speaking up about anything they dont like. They still send your families to gulags and slave pits.....they still sell your babies if you dont believe in the party. You can ask the US who bought a few thousands of them in the past decade when there was a sale.
In a national crisis, China will revert to form and throw human waves at the enemy, with commissars waiting for any one who turn back .. |
...but to give you a more substantive answer, I think your characterisation of China and Communism is extremely simplistic/sensationalist and only serves to muddy the waters on this interesting question.
You reference the NEP, so you clearly know at least something.
I expect the reality to be far more boring. Life under authoritarianism isn't the exciting stuff you describe. You keep your head down, rowdy folk get in trouble. |
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