There are indications Chinese military has serious problems
Dec 30, 2021 5:08:19 GMT -5
Post by Midnight on Dec 30, 2021 5:08:19 GMT -5
There are indications that the Chinese military has serious problems
December 29, 2021
By Andrea Widburg
Xi Jinping has been doing a great deal of saber-rattling of late, threatening both Australia and Taiwan. China has also been building islands in the South China Sea, flying hypersonic weapons, stealing and illegally buying vast amounts of military technology, and overtly working to make its military more manly, even as the U.S. military deals with maternity flight suits and the needs of the so-called transgender troops. Nevertheless, when all is said and done, a military is only as good as the people doing the fighting, and there are indications that China has a problem in this area.
The Epoch Times recently published an article entitled "Corruption Wears Down Chinese Military's Combat Effectiveness," a problem that marches hand in hand with a lack of battle experience:
Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in China's military where officers, including generals, have relied not on their duration of service or military prowess to rise in the ranks but rather bribery and connections.
Experts commented that a lack of competent leaders now threaten to be severely detrimental to China's warfighting capabilities.
Another problem for the Chinese military is that, as in England of old, members of the upper classes don't earn their commissions; they buy them:
"A commander from a military district bribed Xu Caihou [then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC)] 20 million yuan ($3.14 million) for a senior position. Xu then promoted this one, rather than another commander who just bribed him 10 million yuan ($1.57 million)," Major General Yang Chunchang said [in 2015].
In the Chinese military, there's only one general who has real combat experience. Li Zuocheng, 68, served in the Vietnam War in 1979 as the director of a company consisting of about 100 soldiers. Li is the chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the CMC.
Thus, for all the snazzy uniforms and drills we see when the Chinese military puts on a parade in Beijing, it's possible that the people in charge are just big, rich boys playing with toy soldiers.
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December 29, 2021
By Andrea Widburg
Xi Jinping has been doing a great deal of saber-rattling of late, threatening both Australia and Taiwan. China has also been building islands in the South China Sea, flying hypersonic weapons, stealing and illegally buying vast amounts of military technology, and overtly working to make its military more manly, even as the U.S. military deals with maternity flight suits and the needs of the so-called transgender troops. Nevertheless, when all is said and done, a military is only as good as the people doing the fighting, and there are indications that China has a problem in this area.
The Epoch Times recently published an article entitled "Corruption Wears Down Chinese Military's Combat Effectiveness," a problem that marches hand in hand with a lack of battle experience:
Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in China's military where officers, including generals, have relied not on their duration of service or military prowess to rise in the ranks but rather bribery and connections.
Experts commented that a lack of competent leaders now threaten to be severely detrimental to China's warfighting capabilities.
Another problem for the Chinese military is that, as in England of old, members of the upper classes don't earn their commissions; they buy them:
"A commander from a military district bribed Xu Caihou [then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC)] 20 million yuan ($3.14 million) for a senior position. Xu then promoted this one, rather than another commander who just bribed him 10 million yuan ($1.57 million)," Major General Yang Chunchang said [in 2015].
In the Chinese military, there's only one general who has real combat experience. Li Zuocheng, 68, served in the Vietnam War in 1979 as the director of a company consisting of about 100 soldiers. Li is the chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the CMC.
Thus, for all the snazzy uniforms and drills we see when the Chinese military puts on a parade in Beijing, it's possible that the people in charge are just big, rich boys playing with toy soldiers.
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