Posted on 03/30/2016 2:06:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A recent report from the US Congressional Research Service outlines China's 2.3 million member armed forces and sheds light on misconceptions from Western military analysts.
Simply put, the report challenges the idea that Westerners can understand China's military and foreign policy decisions without first understanding their Chinese philosophy and culture of warfare.
Unlike the US, China has a media apparatus that is controlled by the state, so their military reports lack the transparency established by a free press.
China also has a fundamentally different understanding of aggression. For the Chinese, there is little difference between peacetime and wartime cyber espionage, and they have engaged in stealing military secrets from the US and others because they can.
The report, written by Ian E. Rinehart, a CRS analyst in Asian affairs, urges Congress and military leadership to examine a "Chinese way of war."
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~ Unlike the US, China has a media apparatus that is controlled by the state ~
How is that unlike the US?
NOT sarcasm...
Figure #1 does not include electronic Hackers which are Army and Govt. supported.
Nor does it account for civilian spies currently in residence in USA.
I think the key difference is that in the United States, the government media is anti-military most of the time.
Take a deep breath and think...
What is the de facto military position of the majority of the media in this country...?
Just in case you have been asleep since Vietnam, the us media is anti-military...
How can that possibility be the same as a Chinese state run media...?
General Hoo Flung Dung?
Well, the yellow hoard again raises its head?
The goal of China is to control the seas world wide.
The Chinese Navy ( comprised of its war ships, merchant marine and intelligence gathering/bullying fishing fleet, unlike most of the worlds navies)pretty much controls the Western Pacific from the Aleutian Islands to Taiwan, and the South China Sea now.The Chinese keep testing the Sea of Japan with their submarines, as well as the coastal waters of every nation around the Pacific, including Australia and the USA. They are mapping these waters inshore for the purpose of invasion mapping.And their factory fishing boats are stripping the worlds fishing banks, including those of Canada, by bullying and breaking international fishing agreements and agreed fishing quotas.
That’s why the PLA controls the Panama canal through its subsidiary corporations: Hutchison Whampoa Ltd of Hong Kong and Panama Ports Co. [ http://transmissionsmedia.com/is-china-in-control-of-the-panama-canal/ ]
Surprise it will be when the worlds seaways and oceans become partitioned by General Zee Fook Yu !
For the Chinese there is no difference between war and diplomacy. Mao Tse-Tung said that war was diplomacy with bloodshed and diplomacy was war without bloodshed. Samuel B. Griffith said that SunTzu believed that war was to preceded by measures designed to make it easy to win. The master conqueror frustrated enemy plans and broke his alliances. He created cleavages between sovereign and minister, superiors and inferiors, commanders and subordinates. His spies and agents were active everywhere, gathering information, sowing dissension, and nurturing subversion. Thus without battle his army is conquered, his cities taken, and his state overthrown.
With the active cooperation of so many in government, using the Clinton gift of missile technology as a example, there is so little effort required to achieve success.
#9 Take a deep breath and think...
What is the de facto military position of the majority of the media in this country...?
Just in case you have been asleep since Vietnam, the us media is anti-military...
How can that possibility be the same as a Chinese state run media...?
Whoa, POPMAN, go fetch another Xanax!
I was referring to ‘a media apparatus that is controlled by the state.’ The media is controlled in the USA, as well. Regardless of one’s ideologies, or borders, control is control, and propaganda is ubiquitous...
Have a delightful day
LOL!!
I think back to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam when the ARVN rushed back to their units and destroyed the Viet Cong Main Force Army as reported by The Rand Corporation study and later by various VC and NVA memoirs. The worst loss was not their soldiers, but their loss of face. So while the media reported a quagmire, they saw rejection and the end of the effort for a successful insurgency. It seems we will never get it.
Military in China
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“Unlike the US, China has a media apparatus that is controlled by the state...”
Hahahahahahahaha.... oh, thanks - I always love a good laugh.
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