Russia won't like this, as the Russians are very sensitive as to what is developing on their borders. -Tom
“Russia won’t like this, as the Russians are very sensitive as to what is developing on their borders. -Tom”
Russia may not like it but don’t have the cash or the means to prevent it.
Here is a link to the Wikipedia on the PLAMC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Marine_Corps
The Wikipedia article gives the size of a PLAMC brigade as 6,000 Marines.
The Wikipedia article gives the composition of a PLAMC Brigade as:
Each Brigade comprises all or most of the following:
1 x Armoured Regiment (1 x Tank Bns and 2 x Armoured Rifle w/Type 05 Amphibious Assault Vehicle and Type 05 Amphibious Infantry Fight Vehicle),
2 x Marines Bns,
1 x Howitzer Bns w/PLZ-07 SP Howitzer
Missile Battalion (HJ-8 & HJ-73 ATGM’s and HN-5 SAM’s),
A mixed Engineer and Chemical Battalion;
Communications and Guard Battalion;
Field Maintenance Battalion
All that armor will be of little use on those tiny artificial islands the Chinese are building in the South China Sea. Heck, probably couldn’t even park all the rolling stock on some of them.
The article cited above says there will be 6 brigades created (up from the three listed in the Wikipedia article) 6 x 6K = 35K, not 100k. Even if it was 6 in addition to the 3 already established, that is only 53K.
Either way, that’s a lot of force structure unaccounted for.
Wonder what else is being planned?
As for putting them on those islands: cut them off and let them starve. But only after bombing its infrastructurew to pieces. Then they can starve and die of thirst.