‘Without fear of death’: Xi Jinping orders Chinese army to be ready to fight ‘at any second’
5 Jan, 2021
Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldiers during an exercise in Kashgar, China, January 4, 2021.
Xi, who chairs China’s Central Military Commission, ordered the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to maintain “full-time combat readiness” and to be ready to “act at any second.”
This pic of Chinese soldiers must have sent a chill down the spines of American soldiers that fought in the Korea War. The faces are familiar, the most feared soldier, the best fighting men that routed the best American soldiers, the Marines, with whole Marine Division being ambushed and had to run for their lives, with thousands killed...plus soldiers from another 22 crony countries.
The highly popular and idolised American General MacCarthur was often quoted, 'anyone thinking of fighting the Chinese Army got to have his head checked.' He stand to be corrected as there are now several armed forces in Asean and South Asia that are more powerful than the Americans and everyday talking about attacking China and declaring war on China.
The American war machine defeated the Japanese Imperial Army in the Pacific theatre of war, together with the Allied Forces, defeated the Germans, no thanks to the Russians that did the bulk of the fighting. The Americans defeated the North Korean Army, when they were about to drive the South Korean soldiers into the sea...but the Americans were no match for the poorly equipped PLA Volunteers Army.
The Korean War is testimony to the best fighting soldiers in the world, the PLA. Then poorly equipped with small arms to fight the most powerful war machine the world had ever seen, the American combined Arms and won.
Today, the PLA is armed to the teeth with the best modern equipment that equaled the best in the US Forces. It would be a nightmare revisited should the two forces meet again in the battle field. This time it would be a fairer fight with both equally armed with their best weapons, not another asymmetrical war with one side having overwhelming weapon superiority and fire power. It would be heavy weight versus heavy weight in the ring.
Would the arrogant and deluded American soldiers stand a chance against an equally armed PLA? When war breaks out between the Americans and Chinese, the Americans would have a chance to relive the horrors of the Korean War all over again. This time not only they could pound the Chinese with all their big artillery pieces and bombs, the Chinese would return the favour, piece for piece. All is fair in the battle field.