Posted on 04/16/2023 3:51:29 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
China is expanding the populations it targets for the draft, even as a leaked U.S. military assessment says its current Air Force can achieve superiority over Taiwan.
China said that if war comes, veterans and college-educated individuals will be a priority to be called into the military, Fox News reported.
Although no specific goal was announced, in the past, U.S. officials have said they believe war could break out by 2027.
Heino Klinck, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for east Asia and military attaché to China, told Fox News that the step is designed to offset the 2 million-strong People’s Liberation Army’s traditional reliance on rural recruits.
“The PLA has historically been a military based on conscripts from the countryside. I think Chinese President Xi Jinping is trying to further bolster his communist bona fide by ensuring that all segments of Chinese society are a part of the national military buildup,” he said.
But if the concept makes sense, the timing left Klinck concerned that China is “recklessly making policy announcements with a total disregard to how the international community will interpret them.”
“I don’t know what’s worse: That they are tone-deaf, or are they intentionally messaging,” he said, calling the conscription announcement “arrogant.”
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Biden needs advice from warlord Sen Fetterman.
You can’t just throw a bunch of college-educated civvies in uniforms and have an army, a lesson we learned three times the hard way, in WWI, WWII, and Vietnam. Moreover, the next big war is going to be all-out nuclear, and multi-million-man armies are just so much atomic fodder—not that the Chinese brass would be bothered by that, of course.
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China used the “human wave” in Korea. They don’ty care about casualities.
As a matter of fact, it’s just less mouths to feed.
Avoid the rush! Buy your War Bonds, Today!
You just won the internet.
It’s coming...all the indicators are there.
China *welcomes* casualties. Helps with their unemployed/ unmarried male problem. China will be like Russia on steroids when it comes to throwing bodies into a conflict.
Who are they going to invade with this huge Army? They don’t have a way to get to Taiwan or Japan. It’s more likely they would March into Russia. And that would be OK.
Alright. Both you guys get major credit for being funny.
Heino Klink. It’s perfect.
Yep. Talks like he is for the Chicoms.
That would be OK.
How are they going to human wave outside of Asia?
They’re going to need ships, boats and planes and lots of them. Good luck with that. Amphibious operations, landings and airdrops are damn hard, people die in training for them, let alone if an enemy is actively shooting, bombing, shelling and trying to stop them.
Ro-Ro and container vessels are fat, juicy targets. China absolutely has to have them to survive. Sink every one of them going from or to China from afar.
I wish FReepers would stop being such worry warts—not saying you are.
The USA has a lot of problems right now.
But so does China, Russia and many other countries. We could all fall apart from the inside. I think we’re actually in better shape long term. It’s not like Canada or Mexico* (er, ahem) are notorious enemies.
*The Southern border can and should be shut down. We need Trump back at work in DC!
Many soldiers will be sent to Africa.
Thanks, and I'd like to take credit, but dfw makes me look much funnier than I actually am.
“...U.S. officials have said they believe war could break out by 2027.”
Rubbish...it’ll happen before then. They know they have a golden window of opportunity while the profound idiot Biden is “president”.
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