Greatest PRC win of the past year

What is the greatest PRC win since last Christmas?

  • Public maiden flights for two sixth gen

    Votes: 53 28.6%
  • TikTok ban fiasco and RedNote Rebellion

    Votes: 5 2.7%
  • DeepSeek Moment

    Votes: 40 21.6%
  • Liberation Day and unlimited deluxe Presidential TACOs

    Votes: 16 8.6%
  • May 7th Turkey Shoot (J-10C moment)

    Votes: 24 13.0%
  • September 3rd Military Parade

    Votes: 14 7.6%
  • EMAL launch from Fujian

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • Rare Earth Restriction

    Votes: 30 16.2%

  • Total voters
    185
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AndrewS

Brigadier
Registered Member
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Also the UADFs and GJ-X are certainly almost up there with the 6th gens too, the UADFs are for all intents and purposes light 6th gen unmanned fighters and GJ-X is a B-21 sized unmanned bomber, no one else has anything remotely similar in capability.

I think it's better just to define them by engines

So the UADF designs are single-engine 6th gen fighters, which happen to be unmanned
 

daifo

Major
Registered Member
I voted for the Military Parade. As a wumao, we seen these every few years but it was the first time that many Americans and people worldwide actually tuned in to watching it or clips of it out of curiosity because of the US vs China feud. It was a bit of coming out party for the PLA as the global audience saw a highly modern army which is probably not what most people imagine the Chinese army was.
 

ougoah

Brigadier
Registered Member
Weird times. China has the effortless confidence and tech dominance of 1960s America and America is turning into North Korea with flavours of Team American caricature and Idiocracy rolled into one but with more than half its people legitimately pushing it further in that direction.

American leaders are like toddlers these days.
 

TPenglake

Junior Member
Registered Member
For me I was deciding between rare earths and Deepseek, and ultimately chose rare earths for it being a geopolitical leverage China has perfected since the 1st trade war, as a true trump card no one in the West knows how to respond to. And also because even if Deepseek made waves when it was first released, the lack of high end chips has slowed the roll out of R2 and even in China, netizens say the app has fallen behind Qwen nevermind the American AI apps.

But thinking over it and reading some of the responses I would now edge more torwards Deepseek. China has been a tech power for some time, but be that is it may, people outside of China always continued to doubt China's tech abilities, saying most of its products are following on the heels of Western companies. In short, nevermind America even Europeans during that period felt China was playing catch up to them and India was delusional enough to think they were only one to two steps behind China.

Beyond the immediate shock that Deepseek had at the time, I realize that the effects are still being felt to this day. Europeans and even Japanese nowadays have fully resigned themselves to the fact that China has left them in the dust technologically. SK and Taiwan perhaps still have their chip sectors, although the mood there is that even that advantage won't last long with the rate China is progressing. There are still some Indians perhaps who delude themselves into thinking they have a superior tech sector or one not far behind, but the mood amongst the sane ones is that there is no one or two steps behind, India is simply lightyears behind China in this category.

For now, Deepseek may no longer be in the AI spotlight, but in terms of history the app is the literal dividing line between the old world's view of the Chinese tech sector and how its perceived today.
 
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