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Your emotion is quite understandable.

However, Taiwan personnel need to shore up/improve their personal disciplines . . . especially in terms of training, maintenance etc. of advanced military equipment.

Experts I have known involved extensively in trying to train etc. Taiwan personnel in the maintenance and operation of advanced military equipment found it almost impossible.

Persistently the personnel would excuse their laziness by: "It's not the Chinese way. We don't do it that way."

When "that way" was something as basic as reading the manual, doing the training and such basic things as cleaning, greasing etc. the mechanical equipment.

Thankfully, most of the Dah Lu personnel are probably as bad or worse. But I'm not that impressed with how well Taiwan personnel are likely to defend that precious island.

Prayer still seems like Taiwan's only hope.

The Manchu Qing Emperor avoided committing all his military to fight the British in the 1800s, thinking that he could buy the foreign invaders off with money, as the Chinese had traditionally done. The Manchu Qing was peserving his best armies to oppress the Han Chinese who comprised 95% of the population, for Qing knew that the Han were plotting a major rebellion, thru the secret societies. Besides , Qing Dynasty was weakened by the huge Taiping Rebellion. The Emperor only ordered his brother prince Kung to do one battle with the Beritish with a 20,000 strong Manchu cavalry, near Peking. And indeed the Manchu Emperor paid the British with many millons in silver to try to buy them off. Qing was more interested in maintianing/preserving their Dynasty

The cowardly ,decadent Manchu Emperor fled Peking rather han fight the British, (unlike his ancestors ,Manchus who were great warriors, managing even to conquer China from the Ming). If the Emperor was a full-blooded Han Chinese , he would had fought the British to the last. These British sure had cow's luck on their side