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Strangelove said:

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siegecrossbow said:

Yikes they are better off using mountain bikes.

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AZaz09dude said:

People often try to justify the slow pace of ground force modernization with the excuse of lack of funding. Maybe that would be less of an issue if they would stop spending money on gimmicky bullshit.

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lcloo said:

These are not gimmicky bullshit. I believe they were experiementing with the "scooter" to assess its effectiveness. "Scooters" and bicycles can provide unexpected advantage to troops infiltrating behind enemy lines, and they are robust to carry very heavy loads.

During WW2, the invading Japanese surprised and defeat the British and their Commonwealth troops by using bicycles to quickly infiltrate behind the British defencive lines. They used bicycle in swift movement through jungle trails and narrow trails through rubber plantations, which were inacceessible to trucks and cars.

They provide potability, silent/stealth, carry heavy load relative to its weight, free from logistic support.

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By Zhou Bo
Mr. Zhou was a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army from 2003 to 2020 and is an expert on the Chinese Army’s strategic thinking on international security.

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Overbom said:

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This article is written by, I quote:

Does the PLA have any internal rules for its current (+ former) personnel about writing articles on the media, especially on foreign ones, and even more so at an American one?

Can we assume that these kinds of articles are another way for the PLA to convey its opinions (unofficially) to another country?

Please note that I am not talking about the content of the article but its author. Thanks

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Zhou Bo is a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and a member of the China Forum. He was a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army from 2003 to 2020 and is an expert on the Chinese army’s strategic thinking on international security. He directed the Centre for Security Cooperation in the Office for International Military Cooperation at the Ministry of National Defense.

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前中央军委国际军事合作办公室安全合作中心主任，清华大学战略与安全研究中心研究员。
Former Director of the Security Cooperation Center of the International Military Cooperation Office of the Central Military Commission, and a researcher at the Center for Strategy and Security Research of Tsinghua University.
1979年入伍，历任广州军区空军司令部参谋、国防部外事办公室参谋、西亚非洲局副局长、综合局副局长。2006-2009年任中国驻纳米比亚正师职国防武官。
He joined the army in 1979 and served as staff officer of the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force Command, staff officer of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense, deputy director of the West Asia and Africa Bureau, and deputy director of the General Bureau. From 2006 to 2009, he served as a defense attaché with division rank in Namibia.
周波大校用英语撰写评论文章100余篇，在中国环球电视网解读全球安全问题，接受过新加坡“Channel NewsAsia”、俄罗斯“Russia Today”、日本NHK和 美国CNBC电视台专访。作为中国军方代表在香格里拉对话会和慕尼黑安全会议上发言，担任国防大学外军学员硕士导师。
Colonel Zhou Bo wrote more than 100 commentary articles in English, interpreted global security issues on the China Global Television Network, and received exclusive interviews with Singapore’s “Channel NewsAsia”, Russia’s “Russia Today”, Japan’s NHK and US CNBC television. As a representative of the Chinese military, he spoke at the Shangri-La Dialogue and the Munich Security Conference, and served as a master tutor for foreign military students at the National Defense University.

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周波（Zhou Bo），中国人民解放军军事科学院特聘研究员。Distinguished Researcher of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Chinese People's Liberation Army

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