China is not involved directly in this war, has not fired a single bullet, has not lost a single soldier, but is reaping tremendous benefits, just watching and just taking notes in comfort in a military establishment in China. Many analysts are now saying that China is the biggest winner of this conflict. I tend to agree.
But much actually depends on those preparations China was already making before the war even started. And all that preparation is making sense now. China's ambition of electrifying its transport system - high speed rails and the mass migration from ICE vehicles to EVs have reaped great returns from its investments. That has cut off a chunk of its dependence on fossil fuel. China is still building hydropower dams all over, nuclear power stations, solar farms and wind turbine farms. When oil was cheap, China stockpiled in preparation. All these are not white elephants for show. They are projects of National Security significance. Not building of massive data centers which are power guzzlers, needing more fossil fuel to upkeep and upending the decision to be less dependent on more fossil fuel going forward.
Apart from reaping the benefits of preparations that were made decades earlier, China has gathered important military strategies from this war. It has found great effectiveness with its anti-aircraft hypersonic drones and missiles and how to deter such aircraft carriers from moving closer to shore to launch fighter jets to carry out carpet bombing. As the range of those hypersonic drones and missiles are refined to have even longer range, that might even spell the demise of aircraft carriers, which were the masters of the sea during WW2. Such aircraft carriers were still used by the USA to threaten other countries leveraging on its projection of power, but its function has now been crippled by Iran. That they were called 'sitting ducks' years ago has now been exposed by reality.
As I said before, China is also using Iran to test its satellite system, its hypersonic drones and missiles, which have so far enabled Iran to target strategic sites like radar systems, interceptor batteries, military bases, USA linked assets, all done with precision, unlike in the past when Iran was using GPS system. It was perhaps foolish for Iran to use USA GPS system knowing it had been greatly compromised and interfered with. But then, Iran had no other choice until switching to BeiDou while fighting the war in June 2025.
Well, so much strategic information has been revealed by this war, and it will shape China's PLA strategy in future wars, with everything like satellite target fixing, hypersonic missiles, homing devices all built inhouse and not subject to outside control or interference.
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