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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.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: army; china
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To: DakotaGator

China wants to succeed where Japan’s “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” didn’t.


41 posted on 03/26/2017 10:25:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mrsmith

I am not thinking San Francisco would be their target.


42 posted on 03/27/2017 5:42:39 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Pollster1

I was looking at your pictures. That last one with the admin guy and SRB’s, please tell me the Marine Corps doesn’t still use SRBs? These things aren’t electronic yet? BTW, I still have a copy of my SRB, just waiting for the callup of old 50 something jarheads needed for our experience to defeat the red menace.... :-)


43 posted on 03/27/2017 5:45:11 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I don’t know if the USMC still uses those. I’d guess they do . . . tradition. I left the service decades ago, and I was Navy. I just thought it was a great illustration of the absurdity of having someone behind a desk declare that their Marines were going to grow by a factor of 5 almost immediately.


44 posted on 03/27/2017 6:13:40 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: DakotaGator

“Prohibitive for us to interfere.....” Hmmmm.....civil unrest? No will to fight? Collaborating leadership?!? Spread thin in other involvements? Interesting, indeed. What is Taiwan ultimately witch to them? Or us?


45 posted on 03/27/2017 7:02:21 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: dfwgator

Bingo!


46 posted on 03/27/2017 2:02:46 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: gundog

Yes to all.

Taiwan (Free China) is a huge problem for Red China. It is a living testament to the illegitimacy of the Red China’s totalitarian government. And it is a military threat poised to take advantage of instability within that totalitarian government.

Taiwan is also a reminder to the United States abandoning its ally and its principles by “opening” Red China. That action was typical of the U.S. allowing its communist enemies time to grow strong and threaten our interests.

The enemy within had and has much to do with the looming Red Chinese threat.


47 posted on 03/27/2017 2:12:54 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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