Posted on 12/05/2025 1:39:26 AM PST by daniel1212
Beijing’s epic military parade in early September triggered Western anxiety over China’s mounting hard-power potential. Indeed, the weapons trotted out were fearsome...
But there’s a danger in fixating on China’s military upgrades. In fact, the country is fast eclipsing liberal democracies in more pragmatic ways — or already has. Grand set pieces of military theatre highlight combat threats to be taken seriously. Yet the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is positioning the nation as a twenty-first-century leader for different reasons. Among these are China’s near monopoly on critical mineral processing and refinement, its application-centric approach to artificial intelligence (AI), and much more.
Chinese arms quality has drastically improved in recent years...
“It is no longer enough to say that China’s military…is catching up or that it is copying foreign military equipment designs,” writes the director of the international security program at the Lowy Institute in Foreign Policy. “China is now innovating, and it is leading.”
Much of this stems from the CCP’s successful pursuit of civil-military fusion. The nation’s private sector and vast start-up ecosystem are key to advancing the dual-use technology vital to Chinese military systems, especially in frontier realms such as android soldiers or covert nano-drones....
China is already the top trading partner for more than half the planet. It is also a manufacturing juggernaut that dominates emerging technologies and the so-called electric tech stack. Essentially, China’s tens of millions of factory workers, managers and engineers are uniquely able to build almost anything and get it to market, fast — and then iterate to make it better...
Liberal democracies are also lagging in the global cyberwar. In late August, Western intelligence agencies declared the expansive Chinese state-backed Salt Typhoon hacking campaign a “national defense crisis” affecting some 80 nations. Only recently discovered, the hackers had for months — even years — been stealthily exploiting hardware vulnerabilities ...
A former official at the US National Security Council during the Biden administration, Anne Neuberger, has warned Chinese malware is being installed in critical infrastructure of America and its allies, and then lying dormant.
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I have watched several CCP military exhibits on YouTube.Much silverback chestings and popguns.
None of those video’d, have been where they would be experiencing the zing of a bullet whizzing by them, sent by a force in opposition.
(They ain’t been blooded yet.)
ping
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How far can China project its power?
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Reads like a puff piece written by someone in the Party’s billion dollar propaganda division.
It’s garbage by some one who knows nothing about the military.
But it is true that in China the military and civilian companies are joined - what one has, the other gets, a new law passed a year or so ago by Xi Jinping.
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