Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

China Is Building a 100,000 Strong Marine Corps
Diplomat ^ | March 24, 2017 | Franz-Stefan Gady

Posted on 03/26/2017 12:16:34 PM PDT by C19fan

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is set to increase the size of its Marine Corps from about 20,000 to 100,000, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on March 13. According to unnamed PLA insiders and experts interviewed by SCMP, elements of the expanded Marine Corps would be stationed abroad, including Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and Gwadar in southwest Pakistan.

(Excerpt) Read more at thediplomat.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: army; china
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last
To: C19fan

Red China is preparing its armed forces to defeat the United States in 2025. And that is only part of its preparations.

Meanwhile, the enemy within continues its work.


21 posted on 03/26/2017 1:38:03 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

I’ll bet the Chicoms requested an exchange of, “officers” to review the operations at Camp Pendleton.

Just sayin

5.56mm


22 posted on 03/26/2017 1:40:07 PM PDT by M Kehoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Semper Chi


23 posted on 03/26/2017 2:37:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan
If you want five times as many Marines, all you have to do is hire a lot of men? I did not know that. Poor Gunny is probably crying in his beer now that he knows he wasted his time as a DI, when all the USMC needed was an HR bean counter filling out paperwork.

______________________________________________________________

.


24 posted on 03/26/2017 3:07:33 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

“This is my lifle...”


25 posted on 03/26/2017 3:10:58 PM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: elcid1970

I’ve been waiting for the Chinese to take over chunks of Africa.


26 posted on 03/26/2017 4:02:14 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

What is the most strategic military use of Marines?

Securing beach heads in seaborne land invasions.

Where would China be expecting most to do that? You only get one guess.


27 posted on 03/26/2017 4:05:06 PM PDT by Wuli
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: honurider

Your math is way off. One half 1% of China’s population would be a little under 7 million.


28 posted on 03/26/2017 4:16:33 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Pollster1
Yeah, each of our Marines carries 200 years of an incredibly hard won tradition and glory. And the lessons of the British Marines before them.
China's Marines carry the traditions of raiding parties at best.

Google says Chesty Puller translates as Xiōngbù lāchě... that'll give them something to aim for.

29 posted on 03/26/2017 4:23:54 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Wuli

If they invade San Francisco they’ll need lots of Marines to provide crowd control so their eager greeters don’t stampede and hurt themselves.


30 posted on 03/26/2017 4:26:28 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

We have nothing to fear - they will be a backward, non-modern fighting force, without the fearsome skills of of pregnant women and transgendered men.


31 posted on 03/26/2017 5:16:12 PM PDT by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mrsmith
Google says Chesty Puller translates as Xiōngbù lāchě

Which roughly translates as "Breast Carriage Puller."

It will take years for China to figure it out....

32 posted on 03/26/2017 5:20:55 PM PDT by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: elcid1970

A few years ago, I did the math. Figured the Chinese male population could be decimated five times and retain a one to one male to female ratio.


33 posted on 03/26/2017 5:40:21 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Hugin

Thank You. You are correct. Was supposed to be 5.5 million

I noticed something in my notes but did not look close enough and left out the decimal point, should have used a calculator, Thought a simple rounding would be enough but too fast, crap. Anyway, China to America pop. is almost five to one under the scenario I mentioned still the same. The 1/6 statement is obviously wrong.

Thank You will look closer and slow down in future


34 posted on 03/26/2017 5:55:40 PM PDT by honurider (no one is more indoctrinated then the indoctrinator)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: DakotaGator

Defeat where? The Pacific?


35 posted on 03/26/2017 6:00:54 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Timpanagos1

“Russia may not like it but don’t have the cash or the means to prevent it.”

Which makes them all the more a necessary ally. Russia knows its only a matter of time before China starts looking around for a little more lebensraum, aka Siberia.
Time to put aside our petty differences and recognize the real threat.


36 posted on 03/26/2017 6:03:17 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: gundog

And yet there are all those Cherry Blossom websites aimed at Caucasian guys, advertising “meet lovely Chinese ladies”.

Lotsa Chinese gals are looking elsewhere for hubbies than the People’s Liberation Bachelor Army.


37 posted on 03/26/2017 6:44:36 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: gundog

The China Seas specifically. The Pacific generally. And the Panama Canal and Western Seaboard of the U.S. strategically.


38 posted on 03/26/2017 9:58:11 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: DakotaGator

So, attack Taiwan, drawing us into war?


39 posted on 03/26/2017 10:02:43 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: gundog

One of several scenarios. Basically they want to take Taiwan (Free China) while making it prohibitive for us to interfere. Then they want to totally dominate Asia.

This will be their realization of a long term desire to expel the white devil from their affairs, redress the perceived insult of the Great White Fleet’s reduced visit, and restore the hegemony of the Middle Kingdom. All the while, the West conveniently ignores the fact that Red China is the enemy.

“May you live in interesting times” is s Chinese curse. We are about to see it visited on us.


40 posted on 03/26/2017 10:20:20 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson