I just started watching his videos a month or two ago. He has more knowledge and foresight about the world and geopolitics than almost every talking head on MSM.Wang Yi has given Blinken a dress down.
I just started watching his videos a month or two ago. He has more knowledge and foresight about the world and geopolitics than almost every talking head on MSM.Wang Yi has given Blinken a dress down.
It is definitely very tempting to assume that the PLA is incapable of putting up a fight against US forces due to lack of combat experience since 1979. It is even more tempting to assume that an average PLA infantry and pilot would be inferior to the USMC infantry/pilot due to lack of realtime combat experience and high-quality gears. However, one cannot overlook the massive 2015-2020 PLA reform. The reform did re-equip the 2-million strong military with lots of new gears and completely brought about a new command structure. Never underestimate a potential foe, because your current experience may not be useful against new ones.The War against Western the American, German trained and equipped KMT doesn't count? The Korean War where the U.S. suffered it's longest retreat in one of the battles against a piss poor equipped Chinese volunteer forces with minimal logistical support not to mention almost non existent Armour and air power. The 1962 War against India where China spanked the Indians so hard that they're still smarting about that loss to this day. Then there was a brief battle against the Soviet Union where the Chinese forces stood their ground despite the severe imbalance of power, they even managed to captute a Soviet tank in the process. The Sino-Vietnam war accomplished the tasks and goals set out by Chairman Deng.
The arguments made by that monkey on YouTube is no different than what most of us can read on the bazillion of pseudo experts on Reddit that keeps on ragging the PLA. I mean if China is that easy to beat then why couldn't they have invaded the country a long time ago when it was relatively weak in almost every aspect.
It will take time for those reforms to bed in though, and there is still the lack of recent combat experience in the PLA. That said, the kind of wars the US has been fighting bear little relevance to a war with the PLA in the SCS/ECS - there's been very little air to air, armoured or naval combat, for example in the last 40 years. The extensive experience of the British and French armies in 'brushfire' colonial wars in the 1920s and 1930s didn't help them against the German Blitzgreig in 1940.It is definitely very tempting to assume that the PLA is incapable of putting up a fight against US forces due to lack of combat experience since 1979. It is even more tempting to assume that an average PLA infantry and pilot would be inferior to the USMC infantry/pilot due to lack of realtime combat experience and high-quality gears. However, one cannot overlook the massive 2015-2020 PLA reform. The reform did re-equip the 2-million strong military with lots of new gears and completely brought about a new command structure. Never underestimate a potential foe, because your current experience may not be useful against new ones.
Just like the Boer War and other counter-insurgencies that the Brits fought during the 1890s and 1900s did little to prepare the Empire against the onslaught of the Kaiser's imperial army (and Navy, despite having fewer capital ships). Had the United States not entered WWI, Germany may have had a good shot at overthrowing Pax Britannica.It will take time for those reforms to bed in though, and there is still the lack of recent combat experience in the PLA. That said, the kind of wars the US has been fighting bear little relevance to a war with the PLA in the SCS/ECS - there's been very little air to air, armoured or naval combat, for example in the last 40 years. The extensive experience of the British and French armies in 'brushfire' colonial wars in the 1920s and 1930s didn't help them against the German Blitzgreig in 1940.
What Trump does right, Biden does wrong. What Trump does wrong, Biden still does wrong.
But look at the climate change issue.
China is sticking with 2030 for peak emissions, whilst the US wants 2025.
And in the event of climate change, I reckon American, Europe and Japan will be hurt more. This would be due to:
1. the effect on the Atlantic currents which transfer heat to NE America and also to Europe which is mostly at Canadian latitudes. The Pacific currents are much simpler and less prone to disruption from melting ice.
2. the much longer coastlines of Europe, North America compared to China.
3. in Europe, North America and Japan, the population distribution is skewed towards the coasts. In comparison, China's population distribution is skewed more inland. You can look at the population distribution maps yourself.
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So if you use the logic of being cold war enemies, China can accept a higher level of risk from climate change destruction and rising sea levels than the USA.
China would actually be happy to forego a cold war and focus on domestic development.
After all, China is still only a middle-income country and knows that it can still grow to 2x and then 3x larger than the USA
In comparison, if the USA wants to remain a global hegemon, it is the USA that needs to forge a hostile cold war coalition against China.