China is playing a different military game from the USA

According to Kevin Walmsley on his site 'Inside China Business' China is doing things radically different from the USA and that is perhaps why John Mearsheimer is accusing China of abusing its military might by not following traditional rules. There are no rules when it comes to a country not willing to continue to allow itself to be bullied under such rules of engagement.

The USA is slowly being outflanked by Chinese military innovation, even with the benefit of experts in its military industrial complex by not thinking out of the box and still stuck with its mindset on building bigger aircraft carriers to project power.

China is going big into building drone carriers, the alternative to building aircraft carriers that are expensive to build, needed support ships for protection, carried thousands of expensive planes and very expensive to maintain with large crews, whose loss are going to be detrimental to the navy's power.

Drone carriers are cheaper to build; with drones they carried even cheaper to build than those expensive fighter jets costing hundreds of millions each. Besides that, drones carry no crew for active missions. China is now building military drones capable of taking off vertically from small vessels, even fishing vessels. We all know how many fishing vessels that China has around the seas with China the dominant ship builder in the world that nobody can now touch. Is that the reason the USA is trying to hype up the danger of China's shipbuilding industry as well?

In a word, when it comes to a war, China has a whole armada of small drone carriers that are game changers in every sense of the word. And these can be everywhere, ready to launch drones at targets that probably aircraft carriers do not have the luxury of carrying out close enough. Having said that, hypersonic missiles can probably do the job as well, which China is no laggard in their development.


Anonymous

The title of a professor is not equal to sensible thinking...can be a hillbilly

The USA and the West always complain about China not playing by the rules. By whose rules are they talking about? The USA self-proclaimed 'Rules Base Order' that everyone is supposed to follow?

China abusing it military might? That is truly laughable. I do have some respect for John Mearsheimer's views, with due respect to his reputation, but not after reading some of his totally warped viewpoints. This man is all out to demonize China and put it in bad light. Which is why he cannot see eye to eye with Jeffrey Sachs when it comes to debating China.

Who is the greatest abuser of military power? Who started all the wars - in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and now about to ignite a big war with Iran coming soon? Who supports genocide in Gaza and earlier in Yemen? Yemen's genocide was swept under the carpet by the MSM.

How many military bases does China have around the world compared to the USA's 800 plus bases all around the world, that might classify China as an abuser of its military might? Countries do not build military bases in other sovereign states on the pretext of protecting them. They are to deter them from going against the interest of the USA. This is just military coercion masquerading as protection. For interests' sake, protection against who? Against imaginary and hyped-up enemies that do not exist. If I may say so, all the protection needed by countries is against the USA, the one and only rouge state in recent history.


Anonymous

Trump is the Jack of all bankruptcies - Next target, rogue regime America

No one knows better than Trump how to bankrupt everything that he touches - Trump Casinos, Trump University, Trump Mortgage, Trump Shuttle, even products in his name he tried to sell all ended belly up. Trump truly has the Midas Touch in reverse that you cannot find in any other human being on earth.

The man is the Jack of all bankruptcies - bankrupting, businesses, casinos and every other venture. With his inherited wealth, he was able to continue to con people at will. Now even a country is in his hands to go belly up soon. This will be the bankruptcy of the century, another feather in Trump's cap.

Much had been prophesied already that Trump will be the last President of the USA during his first term - the 46th and last. Which means the USA was supposed to be cooked then, or in another sense, Trump will morph into a dictator ruling forever but not as President. No more Presidential election needed. That did not materialize. But it looks to be materializing today the way things are working out and Trump using National Guards and the military to secure cities slowly and discreetly for a fundamental change. The USA was supposed to be dismantled by Trump anyway, like it or not, first term or present term and the prophesy seems to be coming true.

For many around the world, that must be the best news ever of the breaking up of the rogue regime. And it was all self-destructing policies that led to what the USA is today. The American Dream has ended in dust, and many are even saying that USA is already a third world country, looking at the living environment, its homeless situation, drug problems and the unsustainable cost of living situation. It was a self-induced slow demolition job carried out by both parties, the Democrats and Republicans. The USA should stop blaming others like Russia or China for its predicament.


Anonymous

In a world war, how many Asean countries would be fighting China for the Americans?

  Another question, how many Asean countries would like to be ruled and controlled by the white men? The Arabs, Africans and Latin Americans have made their choices clear. But in Asean, the indication is that many Asean countries, or at least the Anglophiles, would love to be ruled by the white men again. They cannot see any wrong in what the white men are doing to the whole world. But they believe everything the white men fabricated about China and Russia, when Russia and China did not do anything that were claimed by the white men. China and Russia are wrong for so many things they did not do. The white men are not wrong, for so many cruel and barbaric things that they did.

This is the world of the white men and the deluded world of the brain dead Anglophiles. The Pinoys are now totally sold out to want to fight China on behalf of the Americans. The thick brain of the perpetrators of this policy, because of their personal interests, have totally ignored the interests of the Philippines and its people, and will sacrifice them like Zelensky sacrificing the Ukrainians. And like the Ukrainians, the Pinoy masses are like the Ukrainian masses, like sheep being led to the slaughter, without resisting, not willing to think of the consequences. Ukraine is what the Philippines would become.

Is there any other Asean countries that are harbouring the same inspiration as the Mickey Mouse leaders of the Philippines? How many Asean countries are still putting their bets on American supremacy and hegemony, to rule the world and the Asean region? How many Asean countries are collaborating with the evil American Empire, smearing and demonising China every day, and think they are safe, and China would forgive them when the American Empire collapses? Or they truly believe the evil American Empire will rule forever.

The writing is already on the wall. The collapse of the American Empire is imminent. The Americans have lost Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Pacific Island. Not sure about Asean as the water is still milky with a lot of fake signals.

What do you think? Which country in Asean would be fighting on the side of the Americans against China?

9/3 Victory Day Parade - China showing its muscle and strength

 All the invitations have been sent and 6 Asean leaders have confirmed attendance. Singapore is still pending, like waiting for approval to attend. Trump is still silent about any invitation, likely is not invited and unable to start crowing that he is going to Beijing. He may be dumb, but by now he should have gotten the message. 没门.

This Victory Parade over Japan in WW2 will see China making a new statement in its foreign policies. By now many observers could have seen a new and more confident China standing up firmly against the Americans, and also firmly defending friends of China against American bullying and threats. What China is doing for Iran, selling weapons needed to defend itself against attacks from the Americans and the Israelis is a big statement without shouting out loud like Trump. Then China came to Brazil's assistance by buying up all coffee shipments rejected by the Americans, giving Brazil a big reprieve and a big push from behind. Yes, Trump can no longer threaten or bully Brazil with China watching its back.

For several decades, China's foreign policies were one of not being seen and not being heard. It followed the guidance of Deng Xiaoping, avoid trouble, do not show your strength, bend your head to the extent of keeping quiet even when beaten. The policies were formulated at a time when China was still very weak and relatively poor, and had served China well in many ways, deceiving the Americans and the West that China was no threat, a weak and poor developing state. The drawbacks were constant bullying by the Americans and the West, including Mickey Mouse little countries thinking that they too could kick China around. Some silly American doggies are still doing it.

In the last few years, Americans and the West were stunned by a more assertive and confident China taking more defying positions in the face of western coercion and threats. China starts to talk back, to say no, and to speak out for countries that were threatened or bullied by the Americans and the West.

The Victory Parade will see China making a big statement. China is going to show to the world how strong militarily is the PLA and how advanced the Chinese weapons systems are. China is not hiding its strength anymore, no more looking like a sick cat. China will parade all its newest and most advanced weapons to the world, especially to the Americans and the West. And many of these weapons are state of the art and out of this world, that the Americans and the West have never seen before, and never had. The Americans would no longer be able to lie about China copying or stealing new technologies that they did not have or heard of.

This show of strength is to tell the Americans and the West to wake up from their silly ideas that they are the best, they have the best of everything. China is showing them how far behind they are to China in military hardware and weapon systems. It is also to tell the Mickey Mouse not to be silly anymore.

The Victory Parade is also a way to assure the invited guests, mostly heads of state of friendly nations, that they can feel safe with China standing side by side with them, have no fear of being bullied by the Americans and the West again.

The Americans and the West want to see a more assertive and aggressive China? The Victory Parade is the answer.