My grandfather's older brother was in the Red Army and died in the Chinese Civil War. My grandmother said that at that time many peasants volunteered to join the communist army, because under Chiang Kai-shek's rule, rioters and prostitutes were rampant. The soldiers rob the food and youth（Forced conscription, shot if you don't go） without compensation (at least the PLA made an IOU, which was paid later), and Chiang Kai-shek was very weak and incompetent towards the Japanese. Chiang Kai-shek was a self-disciplined man, but he was cowardly, jealous, and ruthless. He could not run a Republic of China together with the Communist Party, massacred the docile Communists at that time, and was definitely not a leader respected by the people. So he was abandoned by the people. This is what my grandmother said, not any history book, but her own experience.
Mao Zedong was back by the Russian and the USA with money and weapons. No body was backing chiang kai shek and see mao as a main threat rather than the smaller Japanese forces. Chiang try to save as much money as he could as he doesn't have much. When chaing asked the usa for help, they given him a shipment of old guns and nothing more because the USA does not want chiang to win against mao and bring democracy to China, in order to keep China weak and backwards with mao's victory. And the USA kept China weak until 1971, when Richard Nixon visited mao to do business because Nixon was afraid to lose China to the Russians as potential ally.
not surprised. Chiang was backed by the US and the rich Chinese, and had way better equipments, and he had to retreat to Taiwan in the end. "abandoned by the people", definitely.
@@SF-zc3mm 。。。 She has experienced the days when the Japanese brought guns to the village to mop up and had to hide in the water tank, the days when the villagers were raped or killed by the Japanese, the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the three-year drought and the cultural revolution. You need to know that Chinese people know more about their own country.
Never thought I could see a fair coverage of China by any American. These guys seems to be approaching China from a realistic point of view and also truly want to understand their adversary.
Honestly they are right about China about the most parts but still wrong on minor ones such as they believe China sees the other worlds as competitor, that is not true. China is not competing with most other countries.
I get what you mean. China mostly want to develop and feels as though it has a lot of catching up to do. But the west views this as a direct competition due to the sheer size of China and the strong will of its leaders and people. Definitely a big misunderstanding from the west.
@@AcidBombYT lmao you talking about the americas? literally every video is them being boastful and thinking they are invincible while calling all others a paper tiger, pure arrogance
7:28, why did Mao switch to having an independent army? Because at that time there were brutal and sudden massacres against the communists, they had to protect themselves. And you have avoided describing the persecution of the communists by Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the bureaucratic capitalist party, in a seemingly objective statement. . . Maybe this is the Western narrative, but as a Chinese, I have to add these historical details.
When describing the process, they did not say it together. This will definitely weaken people's understanding of the bloody massacres during that period
@@ameliah8164 Directly beforehand, he says Chiang “turned on his communist allies”. In English, “turned on” means “betrayed”, so he was stating that Chiang started attacking the communists. He didn’t directly say “bloody massacre”, but that sort of imagery is unnecessary to the purpose of the video.
Honey, it's different. If it is just betrayal, it can be understood as no longer cooperating. Mere non-cooperation leads to wanting to have an independent army is a radical act. But having to have an army to resist the carnage is a completely different story.
When ask why doesn't China negotiation with US on a nuclear limitation treaty, China spokesman ask "is the US saying they are willing to reduce their warhead to our number?" the Chinese do not understand what the American are offering in the treaty, because if the negotiation is to have parity then US would have to massively cut down their nuclear weapon and in such a treaty, China would not have to reduce anything to begin with, if the negotiation is to impose US superiority over China, why would China agree to such term? US position lack clarity, and without clarity the request does not sound honest. China read the request for negotiation more as an attempt to blame China for the failure of negotiation than an honest offer to reduce US weapon threat to China. if US really want negotiation, they have to put an offer ON THE TABLE, else going to talks without an agenda or purpose is useless.
Was there any such proposition ? I've never heard this. What Brad Marvel said is surprising. I wonder where he learnt that from. The USA has more than 6000 warheads. Do you have any links?
@@billlee2983 it was in the news in the US a few months ago. US want China to join the negotiation with Russia, but when he ask US that, no further discussion were made.
The biggest problem with army intelligence is the language barrier. It's unrealistic to be a China expert without being fluent in Chinese. Experts need to be as fluent in mandarin as Chinese experts are with English. edit: Saw the most concrete example with the Xi's speech at the CCP national congress. He said Taiwan 问题. Some translated it in to 'Taiwan topic,' and others 'Taiwan issue,' or 'Taiwan question' and others 'Taiwan problem.' There's a huge spread of meaning and intent here from benign to hostile. As a decision/policy maker, are you going to rely on a translator to frame your analysis?
The opinions of the Chinese people in the comment area are the best portrayal. Even high-level American intellectuals still lack a real understanding of China (if this video is not intended to confuse English-speaking people in the name of popular science), your one-sided description of the history before the founding of the People's Republic of China ignores the Chinese people in history. feelings and attitudes. There is a saying in China that history is written by the people and chosen by the people. It was not the Communist Party and the Kuomintang that made history, but all the Chinese people who chose the Communist Party.
@@ronaldohajong6780 If a 90 percent approval rating is regret, what is your government's approval rating? The media never told you whether the Hong Kong people who cooperated with the anti-China forces to make trouble later went to the UK regret it?
China's communist ideology is totally different from what it originally was. It is communism with Chinese characteristics and capitalism combined. It is a potent combination that has contributed to China's economic and military might today that challenges US's supremacy .
Friends of the world, there are two words on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Long live the people's Republic of China. Long live the great unity of the people of the world. The Chinese army and technology has become more and more powerful to protect ourself, not for hegemonism. I hope you will trust China more. Peace is the pursuit of the people of the world. The first sentence of the Chinese National Anthem: “People who rise up and do not want to be slaves "
Seriously, people are downplaying Mao's strategic abilities in this video. The three great campaigns that led to the CCP victory were all decided by Mao, in opposition to his best generals.
I'd have assessed Mao in the opposite manner. Decent guerilla general, decent inspirer, absolutely terrible statesman who should've never had direct rule.
@@DarkwarriorJ Yes, but the video made it sound like Mao was just a cunning politician without military abilities and basically got his position through smooth talking, which is clearly not the case. He got to where he is because his military suggestions, from the long march, to the guerilla people's war, to taking Manchuria first followed by the three campaigns, all worked.
@@a1to8 Personally, I speculate that it may be a bias from many of us in the west having extensively studied the USSR but not the PRC, and then projecting everything about the USSR onto the PRC. That description largely fits Stalin very well, but it doesn't fit Mao. There's other such apparent analogies between the USSR and the PRC that obscure the very different details or are just wrong, from what I can see.
17:18 “China views everyone as competiors” this sentence can be applied to all countries. It basically means nothing. This is how a country can survive in the world.
No. Most countries ***businesses*** compete, hard, but at the bureaucracy level the governments tend to help each other out (keeping all the tax slaves in line).
Like what the presenter said "No one should call themselves an expert on china" for the most part i don't think these researchers have quite understood completely Mao's role in China and his own political history within the CPC. There are still biases and misunderstandings of the questions "what is the CPC and why the CPC.
Makes more sense that China claims the SOUTH CHINA SEA, than the US considering Guam and solomon islands as strategic for the US. Also, China doesnt have 800 military bases around the world. This whole thing is projection on the way US does things.
Excellent presentation. Just FYI, 9-line was originally claimed by Taiwan (and is still claimed by Taiwan as Chinese territory). Note that after WW2, none of the other contending countries existed as countries, they were still all colonies of western powers.
Not only were the 11 dash line first claimed in 1947 by the ROC government, but the US navy actually escorted and transported ROC troops in garrisoning many of the islands in the SCS.
Overlooked detail is that Chinese civilization is only about seventy years old. Claims of historic strength, or economic miracle, is merely propaganda. Emulating the U.S. military is likewise propaganda, as is claiming that the U.S. is in decline. If you're going to fold each time that the CCP bluffs, then why are you in a position to defer your country's earned authority? Just in it for a paycheque? China is not a peer. But they'll bluster and play whatever sleight-of-hand they can to win advantage.
I spent many years in business dealings with Chinese in the higher echelons of wealth and power. One has to understand their traditional mindset regarding their position in the world and I don't think westerners can grasp it. The Chinese thoughts and core beliefs are not transmissible to most westerners. Study of Chinese history is essential to understand modern Chinese thought. By and large they haven't changed.
I would have to heavily disagree. The Chinese population isn’t this large homogeneous population that holds the same ideals. I’ve been to Beijing, Guanzhou and Hong Kong, and I can tell you that the locals are far different from each other in many ways. Any person who’s been to China would know that 😂
@@changchadchanamdong2668 are you telling me that folks from Shanghai and Shenzen are similar to their Beijing counter parts? 😂 you are funny to think they are homogeneous in ideals 🤣
agreed the comments here are completely ignorant. just because you been to a city doesn't mean you understand the cultural mindset. they don't care about elections and democracy. They care about security. and which ever form of government can provide them that they will be content with it...some people want clear directions on how to live their lives and not be left to freely think about it themselves.
You have a good understanding of the military part. However, there are still many wrong understandings about the history of the Chinese Communist Party. After the founding of the CPC, the CPC was divided into two factions. One faction believed that the Soviet Union's path was correct and that it should completely copy the Soviet model, uprising in cities, occupy cities and carry out revolution. The other faction is the local faction thought by Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong thought that the theory of communism should be consistent with the actual situation of China, and that it should carry out revolution in the countryside and mobilize the peasants to carry out revolution. Before 1935, there was always a struggle between the Soviet Party and the native party within the CPC. Most of Mao Zedong's military actions were successful, but the leaders of CPc of the Soviet party seized the right to speak. Therefore, he was always a marginalized figure, and was not even allowed to participate in various meetings and work.
I was trying to reply on this part, when one argued in the video that Mao was by chance elected to be the leader to be in control of the PLA. what a stupid assertion. Your reply fully explained the history, I am just curious that, how can one believe such low quality documentary
@@forgettohaveaname2954 It can often be hard to get reliable info on controversial parts of history and the PRC is one of the most glaring of examples. Part of this is western bias and part of it's a general hatred and mistrust of communism in general, but it's also because of Chinese propagandize and an overall lack of concrete/unbiased info in general. When it comes to Mao specifically and the early parts of the CCP/CPC there's tons of propaganda that was produced after he rose to power including erasing his competition from history, attributing things others did to him, overstating his accomplishments, understating his failures, and exaggerating the evils of his opponents. There's also very poor reliable records from the time. Of course the ROC and the communists both painted the other more negatively then they were while making themself seem better which muddies the waters. The civil war itself caused mass chaos which makes things even cloudier, lower literacy rates means we have fewer first hand accounts to begin with, and Japans invasion all mean many records from before 1945 were destroyed even when they were written in the first place (if you've got wars raging across your country and invasions coming from every direction chances are you're not going to go into great detail in your diary). The Japanese destroyed tons of records too, as did both sides in the civil war. The end of the civil war also brought the Cultural Revolution and decades of repression so even without propaganda people werent eager to keep any records that could get them in trouble, which could be just about anything. Today people and even the CCP are more critical of Mao then they were even 20 years ago and his cult of personality is greatly diminished but history is written by the victors and Mao spent decades rewriting history so the records he approved of are sometimes the best or only source of first hand info, and most other sources are terribly biased. All this combines to make it so that the only records we really have of the early days of communism in China are what the Nationalists wrote, which is biased against the communists, what the USSR wrote, which could be both unreliable and biased, or what the official CCP history says, which was basically written by Mao himself since he purged many of his opponents during his rise to power and then purged many of his allies later to consolidate power. This is why even on major historical stories we have pretty shaky info, which is why you can look up things like The Great Leap Forward and there's a spread of 35 million on the death toll with some estimates at 15mil or lower and some around 55mil. I've read that even with things like some regional famines the PRC basically says that drops in population for a town, city, or district were due to people being displaced or moving while other sources will say those were mostly deaths and there are independent groups who agree with either opinion or a point in the middle.
@@arthas640 Good understanding to the overall, and a richness of reasoning, I applause for your work. but please remember, truth is a thing, the tool of propaganda to form consents is another, Just like the US has been continuously beautifying its ugly history, especially in regarding how they treated the Indians, PPC has its duty to write its history in a sounding way to portray some mistakes bad have-tos. So for an individual, the first smart is to find out the truth, the second is to understand what’s good for the society to portray them, the third , if you can go that far, you may even find out the truth were the best possible already, don’t rush to criticize me, I personally did a lot research to the history that you mentioned
China proper and same thing some guy they keep saying its mine, then go over here and do it again and it's all intentional, we have those too. They use to do that after Mao.
These guys describe China's efforts to defend their land and sea against outside aggression. But it's interesting that they don't see their own actions in building bases around China as aggressive.
Just being a little bit of the devil's advocate here, but the same can be said about Americans not seeing the building of hundreds of foreign military bases as aggressive
Exactly lol. They even said China look at everybody as a competitor lol. I don't know about that. Today, US is the one that said China is our competitor lol. Damm hypocrites.
Because their values are based on cult believing and cheating. Their monotheistic core caused colonization and massive genocide in each continent, but definitely conflict with the values they showed, like diversity, respect, human rights.... It's gross, really. China & India, you should do your job now. This planet need a new peaceful concept. The one, don't manipulate countries anymore, get some politicians weak points to control them for your own interests is evil.
19:47 Just want to pointing out a mistake in the map of China. Fine, let’s put aside the Taiwan issue. But, how about Hainan? The large island southern of the mainland. If you really want to understand China, please pay respect to the basic geographical facts.
Thank you for pointing out that error in our map. We will make a note of it in the description. We are quite disappointed that we missed it. We appreciate your attention to the details of our film.
"We will fight the enemy in our own way, at the time we determine, in the place we determine. We'll not act according to the enemy's plot, nor will we fall into the enemy's trap, " Mao Zedong.
6:23 Chiang Kai-shek is not Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yat-sen is a selfless revolutionary, the real Three Principles of the People. But Chiang Kai-shek was more authoritarian and did not allow a true multi-party system (the Communist Party and the Kuomintang govern the country together), for which he massacred tens of thousands of Communists and shot and massacred students who were demonstrating. These are real histories. China had a chance to become a republic with a completely Western system, but Chiang Kai-shek led the country to have only one ruling party left, so let’s compete. Facts have proved that Chiang Kai-shek and the bureaucratic monopoly capitalism he represents are a complete failure in terms of productivity and reputation. He was kicked out of the mainland, stole a lot of cultural relics, and lived in Taiwan Province. Even after Japan's defeat, he was still close to Japan's war criminal leader, and he did not have the backbone that the Chinese value most
Chiang was a national socialist and hated capitalism, he wrote a letter begging hitler to help him, before requesting aid from the usa from japans invasion
There is a great cultural gap between the East and the west, and China's history and culture are more complicated. As Chinese, we have never thought of more expansion. We just want to take back Taiwan. Taiwan is also an internal affair of China (a problem left over after the armistice between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party). The main reason is that the United States and the West often use the Taiwan card to stimulate China. The Chinese people know that every dynasty or empire is a cycle of yin and Yang. When it reaches the extreme, it will decline. When everything reaches the extreme, it will develop in the opposite direction. China is now on the road of development, and its economic volume will become larger and larger. If the national military can not protect its economy, there will be no guarantee for its economic development. It is like a lamb to be slaughtered. This has happened several times in Chinese history. What Westerners need to do is to face it frankly and develop together. The Chinese government never interferes in the internal affairs of other countries and never exports war to other countries. The United States often says that China threatens them, but the United States has long deployed many military bases around China, posing a threat to China. On the other hand, if China deploys military bases around US territory and uses warships to cruise in US territorial waters, what would the American people think?
China has been a cultural based nation instead of races since about 221 B.C. The language, currency, measuring were standardized since then. So many dynasties were established and collapsed one after another. Some of the dynasties were established by the nomadic people who usually were living north of China; however, all of them were localized or merged into "Han". Long story short, China has been gone through up and down cycles just like four seasons repeating each year. Just like a tree, when the leaves fall in the winter and come back in spring, because the root is always there.
As a Chinese, I don’t think we want own & run the world like the US does. We simply want a peaceful world there every country has an opportunity to develop and prosper.
That’s what Chinese people want, but not what the CPC wants. All of CPC ideology is about one thing - total control of people. From your money and possessions, to your behavior, to even your speech and thoughts, Communist ideology is entirely oriented around controlling all of it. It’s why you can’t own property, can only lease it. It’s why your money isn’t safe in Chinese banks and so many Chinese people are trying to invest their money in the EU, Canada, or US where it’s protected by rule of law. It’s why the CPC censors all media and the internet. CPC does that to its own people, and is now starting to do that to the rest of the world too. But the world won’t accept it.
As a Chinese mainlander, but an expate overseas - so no need to criticise why I post here, I'd like to raise several misleading arguments in this video, which is streamlined by assertions. 1. The origin of the name Zhongguo- center country, has no relation to any perception of Chinese nation's arrogance to be the center-or the height of nations, it was only a geographic term that reflect their understanding of their where about. In regarding to the national personality, Chinese as a nation has its trait of humble, modesty and unsaggressiveness, thankful to the deep root of Confusious phylosophy; 2. China now has no willing to be the great power in the world, militarily or economically, It is pursuing the equally among all nations. in other words, it doesn't accept the current rule that a minority of nations and population dominate the world, and under a Zero-Sum ideology, the other nations and population including China servers as the fertilizer to nuture the alegance of the minors. 3. China doesn't see everyone else like enemy, it only see who decided to be that of Chinese, enemies. eg the US, the Japanese, and the US controlled Anglo-Saxon nations.
I am from South Korea and we are also deeply influenced by the Confucius culture since childhood - "we are just tiny part of nature" versus "we are the center of the universe" attitude in the west. My generation had to learn 漢字 since elementary school, but the current generation is learning English.😔
@@inlee99 It's Okay to learn English from my point of view, globalization should continue to grow, and English is more accessible than Chinese. Chinese mainlanders all learn English from elementary school too, and that doesn't prevent us from developing our Confucious mindset.
@@forgettohaveaname2954 Hopefully, a common language the world over will help bring us closer to peace. It's such a shame because the common people of China, Japan, and the US have absolutely no desire to do harm to one another.
I agree. The region was called "Central Plain" in ancient China and then later evolved into Zhongguo (center country). So it definitely has geographical and practical origin.
@@inlee99 Your Korean historical materials and ancient books are all recorded by Chinese character 漢字, you younger generation has been artificially cut off from history.
Very informative and balanced perspective. I’m a Chinese and I would never wish my country and my brothers to go into war with US or any other countries for that matter. But we will always defend our nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In China we have always been taught through generations - Our nation comes before our family, before us as individuals.
Yep 👍🏻 still there is so much missing what about the real wars (the secret wars) the true main goals that would define Humanity Future. That would be interesting. Me, never wish to come close to a global war. it is ok as long is in the video games but in the real world Nope.
It is the sell out democrats in the USA who sold all military tech to china! And allowed all chinese spies to work in US tech companies and STEAL OUR technology!!
Respectful discussion! I find the panelists are fair and factual. They are so much more accurate in their statement and assessment of china than the folks on the Capitol Hill or the White House.
Every time I see these comments? Not only when I talk to stupid people. All I have heard I really get pissed oh no China will beat us. No China will be put in there place so we can now be confident that we are going to win
Though they still missed a lot about China's revolutionary history, such as warlords. They intentionally avoided Mao's military skills and depicted him into a political-only leader.
@@junyuanma4243 They addressed his military skills as being poor, noting that at one point he was demoted. It was later due to other leaders failure that he rose through the communist system. They also discussed how the nationalist and communist united to crush warlords in the north only for the nationalist leader to turn around and attack the communist.
one of the few pieces that are produced by experts that know their stuff about China, and where the assessments are based on facts, not on wishful thinking or hearsay.
Both are pretty rare qualities. I'm a relatively patriotic American but I'm also a realist and hate it when people let themselves be blinded by patriotism or their own biases. There are many who either view China as an unstoppable juggernaut (a prediction people also had in the 20the century for Germany twice, Japan twice, the USSR a few times, and India about every year) or they still think of China like it's the 80s or 90s and they're just a struggling 3rd world nation.
I am surprised by the fair down to earth analysis, after way too much of mainstream media propaganda. Yes, you have to know your enemy to know yourself. I do hope both military strategy makers and most important politicians could truly understand Chinese culture, history and military doctrine. This is the only way to prevent hot war which benefits no one. Well presented, keep up the good work
Fully agreed, the most important mission ,for all strategies makers all over the world to me is to prevent hot war which hurt everyone, not only those greatest powers, but also those minor regions and nations. War always hurts.
@@rmerrifield100 well, maybe same as the US won't change their "eagle" mentality and withdraw their military bases overseas. The eagle won't obey like chicken unless it meets more powerful creature. This is a pure military-for-military talk with some "mistakes" for example taking the humor by Chairman Mao as real "the Japanese saved us (CPC)". The fact was the opposite.
@@toicoi6758 They did, Mao hid behind the KMT so they can take the brunt of the war, while Mao was doing the bare minimum. With this, Mao won, and proceeded to murder 65 million of his own people through famines and 2 Billion birds causing further famine.
Great and informative video, as a former corporal and a platoon sergeant in the 2nd Brigade (pre-164th Brigade) of PLAMC (2016-2021), PLAMC also adopted a similar combined arms doctrine to that of the army, but there are a few points in the video I cannot concur: 1) PLA has never been a conscript-based military at least since 1949, although legally defined as "conscripts" (during the service soldiers receive no "salary" but "allowances" instead), everyone de facto enlists voluntarily. You may argue that it had not been a "professional" military for a long time, but definitely not conscripts. 2) At the battalion level, there was NOT a "sergeant major" or "platoon/company sergeant" existing before 2017. The battalion HQ only has the battalion commander, political instructor, one or two deputy battalion commanders, and several couriers. But it was accurately pointed out that there were no battalion staff pre-2017.NCOs in Platoon, company, and battalion HQ began to exist in circa 2017. 3) I do not believe that the PLA Group Army is equivalent to the U.S Army Corps, as U.S Army Corps was led by a Lieutenant General and GA was led by a Major General. I'd rather believe the PLA Group Army is equivalent to a reinforced U.S Army Division (reinforced with several combined arms bayonet brigades etc. ) and they are both led by a major general. 4) PLA began experimenting with combined arms battalions as early as 1975 (I read about this in the brigade archive division where there was a copy of PLA Newspaper dated back in 1975 reported an unidentified corps of Beijing Military District began forming combined arms battalion). It's presumed that it failed at that time but definitely provided a scope of the doctrine. I would argue that the PLA combined arms battalion isn't actually based on that of the US but PLA's own experience instead. I mean... yes it did combine elements from different arms, but the focus and emphasis on digitalization is the key during the transformation. It leads to the introduction of digital devices and terminals to almost every squad vehicle to make sure that intel processing burdens can be shared upon each terminal rather than the battalion HQ alone. So the term "combined arms" in the Chinese language is actually more related to digitalization rather than simply combining different arms and professions. Secondly, the PLA has a relatively larger contingent of ground artillery than the equivalent echelon of the US as the PLA relies mainly on ground fire support rather than naval and air fire support (The majority of the combined arms battalions in PLA are also very capable of calling for air support but not a huge fan of it yet AFAIK). Thirdly, PLA employs organic logistics elements to each echelon while the US often attaches them (FSB and FSC) from a higher echelon. Lastly, the PLA combined arms battalion is NOT smaller in size when compared to that of the US, the PLA CABs have 4 maneuver companies, 1 firepower company, 1 combat support company, and 1 HQ element so it's 6 companies plus one HQ element while the ABCT-CAB has only 3 maneuver companies and 1 HQ element so I have no clue where LTC McCaughkin drew the conclusion that Chinese battalions are smaller "in composition" 38:45, enlighten me if possible.
I hear that they dont enforce conscription a lot but even that sounds kind of iffy. They had things like forced labor for the military or military related projects, mandatory enrollment in paramilitaries, militarization of what in the west would be civilian organizations (police, border guards, merchant marines, etc), mobilization of the populace and other things that aren't _technically_ conscription but would almost certainly be counted as such if they occurred in the west. The military itself wouldnt need to enforce conscription with all that going on since people will volunteer for a better job rather than be forced into a worse one, especially in times of hardship. After the death of Mao China really modernized and after Deng's reforms they've often been able to raise recruitment standards by paring down the military so even things like forced labor or mobilization of civilians hasnt been relevant for decades. China isnt the only country to do stuff like that. The US for example had plenty of volunteers for the Coast Guard, merchant marine, and parts of the military even during WW2 and Vietnam since people volunteered to avoid active duty (a worse job) and the draft also drove up volunteers for war industries as people raced to get jobs that would exempt them from the draft. Many European empires could claim similar since they often were able to avoid a draft by drawing on their colonies to fill any gaps or since some colonies had to provide soldiers and workers as a tax (corvee system) or were sometimes pressured to do so (some Indian princes received more investments or business deals from Britain if they sent more troops and/or laborers from their state so they "volunteered" them). It's a bit like "creative bookkeeping": they werent conscripted, they just had little to no choice but to volunteer.
@@QODHardasiandickBAC Literally…but seems didn’t draw much attention or CIA already contacted… damn… we are not even a qualified peer…as a former US army sergeant definitely won't show off so much with PLA😂😂😂
I would like to begin my comment with a quote from Sunzi: “知己知彼 方能百战不殆”, Which translate as “Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated” I am quoting this mainly because I think this American (or to be more specific American Military think tank)'s assessment of China/PLA is spot on regarding most of the issues it covered. There might be a little exaggerated regarding the PLA's capabilities. I mean US's military spending is still more than the next 11 nations combined, let alone the fact that most of them are US's close allies. However it is always better to over estimate your "enemy" than under estimate them. As a Chinese who has lived in the States for the last 15 years (first studied to get my PhD and then work as a research scientist), I see both nations as my beloved parents, and who would want to see their parents fighting each other? However, through out of the years, I have been hearing an increasing amount of narratives which basically treat the other side as a potential enemy. This documentary is just one another example. It is seems from history patterns, that whenever a new power rises, there will be a fight. And if that pattern holds, just like what LTC Dave Mc Caughrin says "Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when" that the two forces will eventually cross swords. I don't want to believe this theory or prediction, but pathetically my logic tells me that might be true, so now all I can do is hoping that day may never come, just be as late as possible. I do hope you guys could understand my feelings over these issues.
Do you have any Chinese immigrant friends that have expressed similar or different feelings as yours? There’s a lot of Chinese students at my university and I wonder what they must think of all this…
@@XxfishpastexXI am a university faculty in China and I lived in US for 9 years and got PhD degree in US. In my opinion, not only the Chinese immigrants, but also most of Chinese people, have similar opinions above. I quote one representative sentense from a patriotic movie in China "Heng kong chu shi". The movie is about the history Chinese people developed A-Bomb in 1960s, the movie was made in 1999 when US just bombed Chinese ambassy in Yugoslavia. The words is as follows: "We must say that US is a beautiful country, but they should't bully us like right now(in cold war), and make me want to say: no mxxxfxxxer". We can see that even at that moment, the Chinese people is still rational and admit the greatness of US. To sum up, there are two bottom lines of Chinese people. 1. Don't treat us like the enemy. 2. Don't try to make trouble in our backyard. Therefore, I think the video here is one of the most objective video I saw in recent years by US official media. Thanks.
I hope the EU, NATO come apart and Europe goes back to the way things used to be before the EU. The way EU is now the individual States( former Nations) the citizens are being asked to sacrifice ever more their own economic well being for the greater equity of the entire world. This reminds me very much how BolSHEVviks in Russia and PolPots Khmer Rouge asked the people to sacrifice ( starve their selves to death) for the greater good of all. I see the EU plans on seizing the Dutch Farmers land the same as Lenin, Stalin, Mao seizing land in the name of Communism as the same thing. The International Socialists ( Left) have been around atleast since Carl Marx , maybe even since French Revolution and maybe ever since European Enlightenment Movement ( Renaissance Period). There always seems to be this never ending conflict between Beehive Collectivist " WE THINK" CULTSand those love people who love Individuals Freedoms and Individual Property Right and Individual Sovereign of Ones own Mind.
You thought official medias from the UsS military will be propaganda, but actually it's one of the most objective analysis on China's military there is.
When missile start flying they does the fighting and dying not some political commentators, politicians or TH-cam content creators they will be the first to dodge the draft.
Fails to mention China is mostly reactive. China was not the first building airports and radar installations. In the South China, on disputed Philippine Waters. Vietnam, Malaysia & Taiwan were the first to build military outpost on disputed Philippines waters. China just followed.
@@irimeyilmaz956 Western and Russian media and politics tends to highly discount the actions of smaller regional powers I've noticed. We just don't pay attention to what Saudi Arabia is doing, or Turkey, or Poland, or Indonesia and so on. It's a pretty big blindspot and will probably bite us in the butt at some point.
20:00 Y'all butchered the map here. Northeastern India isn't shaded into India, and Myanmar (which borders China, and is politically interfered by China) is labeled as Thailand (which does not border China, but the ruling regime does collaborate with China somewhat).
Thank you for pointing out that error in our map. We will make a note of it in the description. We are quite disappointed that we missed it. We appreciate your attention to the details of our film.
It is inequitable and crass to slander PLA's hero in WW2 against Japan. If PLA followed Chiang Kai-shek's order at that time, they will be used as cannon fodder without doubt. Actually PLA fought in their own ways, such as guerrilla warfare, which sacrificed themselves a lot and caused severe trouble to Japanese, according to the Japanese document and old man in China. This video also doesn't take account that KMT's army had took all American weapons and supplies from WW2 to civil war.
Don't looking China in your own thinking way. Don't use power and don't have power is totally different,China has the power but China never use this power like the US did. Just remember that You should not force others to do what you dislike. Respect to the difference in the world is a base quality of a civilized country.
Modinger was actually inaccurate about Mao in his leadership competence in the Red Army. Mao was not a centric figure in early Red Army because of the structure of Communist International. Red Army suffered great losses in early stage against nationalists because of the bad judgments by the Soviet, though in good faith. It was a major different revolutionary background in China vs Soviet so many experiences did not apply. A good example is the theory of 农村包围城市. This was also a reason why the famous Long March happened. After Zunyi meeting, Mao became influential in the power center, and the Red Army started to gain more strength. You could find a lot of evidence in the party documents etc.
On top of that, the three great battles over the Nationalists were all decided by Mao primarily, sometimes in opposition to generals like Lin Biao. Mao was instrumental in the CCP's victory. IT's nonsense that he takes no credit. Mao did not rise to the top just through his ideas, it was through the fact that his ideas and suggestions actually worked most of the time.
This is the type of presentations quality I look for, no bias or one side story.. excellent work 👏🏻. Thank you. All the best for both nations, hope their govs behave & think about their own people and not world domination.
Additional info: Chiang kai-shek was a US-backed dictatorial leader of KMT who abandoned Sen's ideology by military forces after Sen's death. killing counterless non-KMT members (communists and other democratists)....unlike his brother-in-law, the father of new China(POC & PRC), Sunyata Sen. Sunyat Sen was a true nationalist. He accommodated Communists and democratists into the KMT. Keep this in mind. CCP was one of the political parties of ROC. There's an incorrect narrative about the CCP in WWII in this video. KMT was the absolute power to fight against the Japanese in early-mid battles. They were passive to fight in the mid-late period. They even tried to co-op with Japanese invaders to wipe out PLA. The CCP started to fight against the Japanese in the mid-late period.
Hmm, Mao was a major factor in the Long March and the development of Guerilla Warfare. He may not have been the best general, certainly not the best conventional general, but as a militant revolutionary, he was quite adept.
YES!!! The way they went out of their way to diminish his contributions and paint him more as an opportunist is infuriating. I value accuracy in information, not ideological grandstanding. And the way they diminish the PLA versus the ROC army is absolutely bizarre. These people are not experts, more than they are ideologues. or at the very least the editing team is as such.
@@sojourner4726 Fact is, militarily Taiwan is hopelessly outnumbered on all fronts. Western media tend to suggest that the US would pursue direct intervention in a PLA invasion scenario, but they have forgotten that Biden needs to win elections, Xi doesn’t and he knows it. The US has never plunged itself into a direct conflict with a nuclear power and I do not think they will deviate from this policy. Sending aid, planes, weapons, providing intel, yes. But fighting for Taiwan and risk casualty numbers not seen since Vietnam is something the US public cannot stomach. Japan and South Korea will also not allow the US to launch strikes from their territory as their population falls within PLA’s retaliatory range.
Me too. I had read many articles about his military doctrine and actual combats he commanded. The red army was on the verge of extinction if there was no decision reversal at Zunyi. as a leader, he was thinking strategically and tactically. During the war with Japanese Empire, the No 8 Route army defended and defeated Japanese invaders trying to expand westward to access Shanxi coal and natural resources.
@@Davionknight1 you'd be surprised how many Americans are willing to fight, same with our allies now china in the other hand Chinese are not happy with their government but you dont see that with Chinese controlled media 🤡💀especially how their banks took people money to some scamming investors and have a huge debt and people refusing to pay for their mortgages on houses that aren't even built lmao! 🤣
Tbf, I dont think that they were necessarily being dismissive of Mao. Even military historians will often struggle to distinguish between tactical and strategic proficiency. For example, its why in the mainstream in the US folks often tend to underrate generals Grant and Sherman, both brilliant strategic thinkers, but relatively average in their generalship at the tactical and operational. Their assessment of Mao probably stems from this dichotomy. He was primarily a strategic and political thinker. Hence as you noted, his biggest contributions being in the realm of doctrine and strategy. In cases of military leaders with these skill sets, historically they often tend to be mediocre or outright bad when it comes to the operational/organizational, and the tactical.
its pretty well made given how little the US knows about China. hell, it even has the map of China drawn wrong in this video. so i wouldnt take the details in this material seriously.
I think the guy in the dark suit said it really well in the end "the issue [the US] need to think our way through [or] the question remains will america make that attitudinal adjustment that's necessary to live in a future world at peace albeit competitive[ly] but at peace..." with a gradually rising near peer china? I believe the answer to that question is: its going to be very difficult for the US to make that attitudinal adjustment without significant bloodshed on both sides! which is very sad for everyone!
This entire video still feels like the historians are speaking from a position of a World Police Force, and that China is just another nation under their watch. And that Xi has absolute power over all of the Communist Party, when in reality he can also be kicked out. They keep mentioning over and over again that the US has global responsibilities. Umm, no one gave you those "responsibilities", you gave those to yourselves. I think the reality is, after so many years of a great power (USA) lording over the world, all of a sudden, they realized, wait.... we don't actually own the world, and that another great power might actually rise in influence. And now they're trying to do everything they can to calculate just how much influence America would lose around the world with the rise of China. If you look at this from China's perspective, it's no wonder they see this as a containment strategy rather than a true cooperative world. And I think the reasoning behind why the US still sees themselves as the "good guys" is because we've been brainwashed to think only western style liberal democracies are good, and all other forms of government are abusive and will eventually take over the world. When in reality, if your system of government truly is superior and works for the people, you should have no fear from other governments out competing yours, especially when you have thee strongest military in the world.
A major mistake in US foreign policy (and often domestic as well) is their tendency to 'personify' relationships, ignoring the institutional aspects. Xi Jinping didn't 'take power' in 2012. The party selects its leader in the same way as similar organizations. He was promoted since he embodied the goals and aspirations of the party, not vice versa. Xi has no personal ambitions beyond the same as every other good leader - they don't want their country (or company or party or ...) to falter under their watch. The goal to modernize the PLA was not Deng's goal, nor Xi's. It was the goal of the CPC and the PRC. The CPC is closer to the holding company of a multinational conglomerate. The property doesn't belong to the CEO. He is only the steward and manager of it during his tenure. Just as a board of directors doesn't micromanage every department and division, but just sets broad goals and policies and ensures the components work together, the Politburo of the CPC and the State Council of the PRC do the same. Key people may hold both positions, but those positions have distinct roles and responsibilities. Does it create overlap? Sure, but it is more similar to the interlocked boards of keiretsu or chaebols, or among the Fortune 500.
Please tell me some reasons, why do you think "chinese model" is something better, or at least comparable to liberal democracy. We can discuss bacis freedoms, form of governing, relationship to other countries and groups of ppl and so on. Why do you think this authoritarian national socialistic one-party super-nationalistic model is something good and why?
@@robrechwithoutzaza7992 Well, the way that you started out with "authoritarian national socialistic one-party super-nationalistic..." I think kind of already skewed your views. The media uses a lot of those gotcha words, but let's start out with equity: I believe China's model is a lot more equitable for all people living there. Which does mean more government involvement in people's lives. Their biggest achievement in the past few decades has been the eradication of extreme poverty for over 800 million Chinese people. And the way they did that was by sending out an army (I think 3 million?) government workers who each was assigned a village to work and live with. And they would work and live beside the locals for years, understanding their needs, understanding what they're lacking (Roads, running water, electricity). They goals were to get everyone in China access to basic housing, clothing, food, electricity, running water, free education till 9th grade, and free basic healthcare. And they didn't just stop there, they also sent in specialists to help the people grow and sell different foods, products, and ultimately have a source of income for each village. And once they have those sources of income, more economic opportunities open up for them, more growth, more wealth being spread around, etc.
I particularly liked and appreciated Dr Geoff Babb realistic view. It's odd, the U.S. for all intent and purposes help facilitate rise of modern China and now it's woken to the fact it can no longer influence nor control it like it thought it could. Nice to see the U.S. rushing, alas far to late, to understand Chinese history, culture, after over a century of neglect. But then again, it did the same with both the Vietnamese and Chinese during the Viet Nam War.
Sorry to say but USA has a poor sense of judgement when choosing allies. PAKISTAN as an ally was hiding Osama. Most of 9/11 bombers were Saudi. Saudis have used US weapons to commit war crimes in yemen. US helped China against USSR and now the same China is threatening USA. 🤔🤔🤔
There's too much money to be had to have stirred up the military machine towards China as an adversary. Russia presented very little opportunity cost in terms of war. As long as the Yuan keeps showing up in the right pockets there won't be the sort of reaction there was towards the Soviets.
The People's Armed Police do not operate in Hong Kong and were not part of the Hong Kong protests and riots. It was the Hong Kong police that maintained the peace in Hong Kong.
Having lived & worked in NY & Chicago through the 1990s, with due respect for america's freedom & democracy, and having lived in China since 2002, i'll have this to say. Western perspective of China have no traction with anything to do with the Truths, it's just a perspective modeled after what the west thinks & imagines to be after the western way of thinking & doing everything. I see & feel a more Peaceful, Orderly & Safe environment when living in China, much more than in america. Most of the image & perception of China put out here by western elements, thinking that western people know more about China than the Chinese themselves, is both logic defying & hilarious when america thinks it knows best about everyone, when america today has deteriorated into the abyss of destruction with the huge amount of federal debt & societal mess like gun violence, mass shootings & front~running by pelosi with the powerful enriching themselves as the norm & getting away Scot Free.
It would be fortunate for those living the US if they could appreciate how truthful is the info about China that you tryto point out to them... It is because of westerners streaming videos about the conditions within China that many of us who live in North America have respect for the chinese way of life... We ignore the reality of the strength of China to our detriment.
Mmmmmhmm... So the oligarchs in China that "exploit" (polite way to say it) they're female workers... Or when things like evergrand drag the entire economy to hell with what is basically a ponzy scheme... That kind of thing gets thoroughly punished, yeah? Just prosecuted to the max? Dealt with swiftly? As an American who has lived around the world and met many Chinese people, speaks the language and has evesdropped on many conversations in many corners of the globe, I think it's very Chinese to think that a melting pot culture that has been studying other cultures, their ways of warfare and observed many doctrinal evolutions since its inception might not have just a bit of an idea of what is going on in China. It came as a great surprise to those patrons in my bars when I knew what they were up to as well. But hey, I'm just a dumb American with no cultural perception, what do I know? 🤔😉😘
It’s the 1919 Paris Accord after WW1 that drove China into a new direction, Mao was heavily influenced by two of his communist mentors Chan and Lee whose doctrines had influenced the Chinese leaders, in particular Xi who endorsed the making of a TV series in 2021 to commemorate the influence and achievements of Chan and Lee
Yep somehow those imperial power thought it was a good idea to give a piece of China to Japan was a good idea. As expected, large scale protest erupted within China and this event mark the beginning of modern day China.
3:48 you are wrong, one of the reasons why Mao was so respected and admired by the whole nation just because he was a great military artist. WHAT? he didn't deserve it (his military power)? hahahaha okay, okay, then who command the battle in Korean War to beat you guys back to 38 lines?? Mao is the general command in Beijing not Peng dehuai, who just did what Mao told him to do in the big view. Yes, small or concrete battles were directed by Peng since he was the frontbattle commander.
He suffered 800,000+ casualties against the US 124,000 casualties, while outnumbering the US forces by nearly 4 to 1. That's not the performance of a good commander.
@@sleepnaught We don't have logistical support, we don't have medicine, we don't have planes and tanks, we don't have air supremacy, we don't have enough artillery, we don't even have winter clothes. We drove the US troops from the Yalu River to the 38th Parallel. Generally speaking, 5:1 is a reasonable ratio considering that the U.S. military does not count soldiers from other countries
@@stanleo9661 The only other country with any numbers to speak of was South Korea, everyone else in the allies only provided token support. The North Korean Korean army was also with the Chinese. So, what I said stands. 4-5:1 ratio and the Chinese and North Koreans still suffered immense casualties versus the Americans. The doesnt even account for the fact we could have nuked Beijing if we wanted. 5:1 advantage, plus basically having home advantage due to proximity to China versus the US being 6,000 miles away. And the best the Chinese could do is fight to a stalemate. Pathetic.
As a Chinese, I am partially relieved to know the existence of these rational gentlemen, but not fully because whether the highest commander is rational enough or not is another issue
let this be clear. america does not want war with china, and america will not fire the first shot should it come to that. china would have to but i believe china will not fire the first shot either so i do not think war will come
These people are largely representative of the consensus, and consensus matters a lot more than the presidents opinion in America politics. I will say that the president is largely in tune with these opinions as well. He seems to want to strengthen American ties with allies and to help nations in the region against Chinese aggression. As an aside I lived in China a decade ago, and though I hate the CCP I love China's people, history, and culture. I hope that our nations can avoid catastrophe and I wish nothing but success on the Chinese people.
@@spartanparty3894 Where are you from, if I may ask?I think we have not actively invaded any country since the founding of the People's Republic of China
@@番茄爆炒西红柿酱 I just wrote and essay and accidentally deleted it. I am American, and if you look it up (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China) then you can tell that that statement is false. I wish you the best, have a good day.
One thing they failed to mention is china lies alot about its military capabilities. Alot of CGI and reused launches to spread propaganda. On the other hand the US and NATO allies have the highest level of military might.
I love how they talk about another attacking country because it’s going close technologically and also talk about US being a global empire as if that’s normal and everyone should be onboard! at one point all the talking head experts say “we need to keep them in the first island chain”!! I’m sorry? who is going to put you in your chain so not go around like a rabid wolf attacking everyone that doesn’t bend over
Excellent video that should be seen more than once by all Americans! “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Sun Tzu! War should be an instrument of national survival not a tool to get votes! I used the incendiary and inaccurate term enemy but am quoting someone. The relation ship between China and the US is COMPLICATED but competitor would be a less incendiary term but Sun Tzu did use the word enemy to the best of my knowledge. I was called on the word enemy by K and have added this section to clarify. My goal at least is to make bilateral relations good and the word enemy does not do this. I will endeavor to be more intelligent in the use of language about this important topic in the future!
It's the politicians who always push us into the edge of the wars. America's credibility is decreasing around the world, and people haven't even realized yet especially those politicians.
@@matthewburrow3089 still an ideological threat to China's communist party.. having a more democratic idea of China exists near P.R.China is a threat to China's communist party power.
Absolutely brilliant. This is probably one of the most well put together videos that I have found regarding China & the US. It is inevitable both will clash, but hopefully it never goes beyond basic competition & only for the best of all of mankind.
Throughout Chinese history, the military is the army of the Dynasty in power. It’s only very recent that the KMT(the party whom Sun Yet Sen founded and established the Republic of China) commanded and controlled the Nationalist Army even after retreating to island province of Taiwan. The nationalists army still bares the KMT logo! So the CPC control of the PLA is no different
It's very sad that US politicians in particular seem to think that the only way they can compete with China is by attempting to slow them down economically - through sanctions or through bullying them militarily. When it is blatantly clear that neither tactic will solve the underlying problem in the long term. If one considers that the majority of countries in the world have benefitted enormously over the past twenty five years from the rise in China's manufacturing and engineering efficiency and prowess. In that time the rest of the world were all too happy to leave it up to China (and Taiwan). And Western countries and corporations in particular made trillions from these mutually beneficial trade relations. And now having woken from a deep gluttonous sleep Western nations in particular have realized just how dependent they've become on China - and the economic threat this poses. Deep down they all are aware the threat is self inflicted - brought on by limited long term strategic thinking and planning. So whose fault is that? Mass consumerism and greed - a lack of vision and or wisdom? There is an alternative to political and military conflict - It's called cooperation and power sharing. There is a much bigger and existential threat looming on the horizon - and it affects every human being on the planet - it does not respect national boundaries or economic imperatives and it will force cooperation - the global all encompassing threat of climate change and extreme volatility. So maybe we should accept we are going to be forced to cooperate weather (sic) we like it or not - and work the problem together. Perhaps in doing this we might also get to know each other a little better and increase the chance of the human race surviving the next hundred years.
Its worst then that...there are american who believe...it is better to fight them now..then later...and those who want a Ukraine style war with Taiwan..to weaken China's development ! Fortunately..Taiwanese are not all stupid !
China does not have an 'antagonistic view' towards the rest of the world, not now and not historically. Overwhelmingly, China was an insular power that left most of the world alone except for trade.
Wrong. China quite literally bullies all of their neighbors. India, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Taiwan and others all have to deal with Chinese aggression. Just today, the Chinese launched missiles over Taiwan and into Japanese territory. There is a reason most of China’s neighbors dislike them.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Wrong. Look at the world map. The vast majority of countries neighbouring China and the vast majority of countries in the world all have friendly relations with China. I don't have time to name all the countries in the world that have friendly relations with China, so I'll just focus on the countries neighbouring China. Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Iraq including Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, The Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, North Korea, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu all have indisputably friendly relations with China even though they are neighbours of China. Additionally, Vietnam and The Philippines have actually had relations improve with China to such an extent that they are no longer considered reliable American allies against China. And just recently, even the new 'hard on China' South Korean president totally snubbed Pelosi's visit.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Since you specifically mentioned Vietnam, let me remind you that China was the country that helped Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh/Vietcong fight for independence, first from the imperialist French and then from the Americans in the Vietnam War. And while China and Vietnam fought briefly after the Vietnam War due to the Sino-Soviet Split when China became allied with America, relations since the 1990s have normalized and keeps trending upward between China and Vietnam. Vietnam's political leadership even flew to China to help normalize relations and now both countries share strong economic ties. China even ceded a part of their 11-dash line in favour of Vietnam. Moreover, the remaining South China Sea disputed regions are disputed between numerous countries including the Republic of China in Taiwan, not just mainland China, and the dispute is overwhelmingly peaceful and petty.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Since you specifically mentioned India, let me remind you that India is another great power with some conflicts of their own and also much friendly relations overall. China and India don't hate each other; they view each other suspiciously but they still maintain cordial relations and strong economic relations. The vast majority of tensions between the two countries stems from a few border disputes. Before these were an issue, China and India under Mao and Nehru and Jinnah were extremely friendly with each other, much like how China and Pakistan and Bangladesh continue to be very friendly. Let me also remind you that India has recently increased its support of the BRICS and SCO groups as a result of western condemnation of India's refusal to condemn Russia.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Since you specifically mentioned Japan, let me remind you that Japan and China actually have very strong economic relations with each other, and Japan was actually among the first countries to invest in modern China. The reason there is some conflict is because Japanese politicians including the late Shinzo Abe and his Nippon Kaigi faction frequently venerated World War 2 war criminals who committed very similar crimes as the N*zis in Europe. Also, Japan is effectively a big military base for America, especially the historically independent Ryukyuan/Okinawan nation (that had very friendly relations with China) that was forcibly annexed by Japan and then occupied by an American military base.
There is a conceptual misunderstanding here. The CPC in China is totally different from American Bipartisan, this party is not the other parties. In the US and the western countries, party comes from part, it only represents part of people, it doesn't represent the whole American citizens, the parties were formed after the establishment of the country. The CPC was formed before the PRC was established, and it is the CPC founded the PRC. The CPC is not dominated by interest groups. National policy is not swayed by lobbyists of interest groups. The CPC represents the majority of Chinese citizens. While the American Bipartisan only represents the minority of the interest groups, of the 1%, for the 1%, by the 1%.
Two challenges: If there are no interest groups in the CCP how come there are both Princelings, purges, disappearances and factions challenging Xi? And Mao? And Deng? And Zemin? Second your last sentence is made up glib about a context you do not understand. It's ok to not understand. We don't understand all we need to about China. Let's not let arrogance get in our way.
@@willaimoconnell9430 Even if we dont understand China, we still know genocide and many other things arent right. Blocking ypur people from the internet says alot
@@willaimoconnell9430 The last sentence is not made up by me, it's by American people! I will not argue with you about that. It's a too long political topic. I suggest you to read political decay theory described by Samuel P. Huntington in Political Order in Changing Societies, and distributional coalitions theory described by Mançur Lloyd Olson Jr. in The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. I just want to point out your ignorance about China and the CPC. There is no Princelings in the CPC at all! If you really did research about CPC organizational hierarchy, you would know that there is no Princelings in the CPC at all. All around 350 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China came from hierarchical bottom election combined with selection step by step. There is no jumping step at all. Only 3 of them that amount couldn't be counted as princelings came from the family background which met the standard. During their political career, they can not quit, otherwise it means they are disqualified forever. There is no revolving door between Government officials and large private corporate executives. Any so called princelings if they are not currently in CPC organizational hierarchy, they will never be able to enter into this system and become a member of Central Committee of the Communist Party at all within 30 years.
@@johnmagee2245 Genocide? Are you talking about genocide in America? Native American Indian population decreased from 5 million to the lowest 237 thousand in 1900 by means of rewarded massacre and sterilization(over 42% of American Indian women of childbearing age are sterilized in 1970s), etc. Or are you talking about Chinese Uyghur population from 4.3334 million in 1949 to 14.93 million in 2020, 344.58% increase rate just in short 71 years(while the general Chinese population increase rate during this period is only 260%)? There is internet censorship in China but not internet isolation. Chinese people know the world, even America, better than American people know China even though the United States is so-called the country with the freest Internet. Internet censorship in China is a way to filter out the arrogant and malicious disgusting narrative of Western and America, not the basic information and truth of the world, just like the parent control is protecting children from adult content. Chinese people know everything happened in the United States and the World. Every year, there are 120 million Chinese leave China freely as tourists, they are free to contact global internet content without censorship. Amazingly, 120 million Chinese return to China freely. Now if China was Communist Gulag Stalinist state, would you go back to China? And so there's complete misunderstanding about China. Clearly even though while the political freedoms in China haven't increased enough, the personal freedoms of Chinese people have exploded.
The commentators are informed, knowledgeable, objective, and true experts in Chinese military. They are also aware of the Chinese history and people's mindset.. Very enlightening!
你强调解放军是党的军队，而不是国家的军队。受习近平一人调动。 你们的军队是国家的军队，调动受多方制约。 那么好笑的是，中国这只所谓可以做任何习近平想做的事的军队，近现代没有对哪个国家动用武力。 而你们人民的军队，国家的军队。每隔几年就要侵略别的国家。你们的意思是美国政府不是凶手，而每个美国人都是凶手？ 这个逻辑没错吧？ You emphasise that the PLA is the party's army, not the country's. It is mobilised by Xi Jinping alone. Your army is the army of the country and its mobilisation is subject to multiple constraints. It is funny that the China's army, which so called can do whatever Xi Jinping wants to do, has not used force against any country in recent modern times. And your people's army, the army of the state. Every few years you have to invade another country. You mean the US government is not a murderer but every American is a murderer? Is this the right logic?
The president of China XI got his civil engineering degree from Ohio University. So yeah US politicians needs to be adequately understanding China instead of talking nonsense all the time.
Wait.....Nothing about Korean War? I couldn't believe this and watched the clip again. LOL. For the US military, there is just no way to understand Chinese military without looking long and hard at Korean War 1950~1953, when the PLA had the largest gap behind the US military might.
I am from South Korea and I must admit that you guys fought well against the superpower, it was truly amazing. But we have been brainwashed since childhood to believe that the Chinese used human wave tactics, totally ridiculous !
@@x-creator4460 What was amazing? The US was outnumbered 4 to 1 and still managed to inflict 15 times more casualties on the Chinese than the Chinese/NK did to the US. Also, consider the fact China borders Korea directly, the US had to transport it forces 6,000 miles away to fight the war. And don't forget the fact that just 10 years earlier, the US had one of the smallest armies in the world, smaller than Portugal's! The fact the US went front almost nothing to the world's most powerful military in 5-6 years is pretty remarkable. Be thankful the US military were able to stop the Chinese or else you would be living under Kim Jong-un right now.
@@sleepnaught outnumbered? US had 480 thousand and Chinese had 700. US had united nations troops and South Koreans.. so just stop reading one side numbers.
@@rs-dp6pr Don't know where you get your numbers from... US peak strength in the Korean War was about 326,000. China's was nearly 1.5 million. South Korea had roughly 600,000 peak strength, rest of the UN forces totaled less than 40,000 and were token forces at best. China + North Korean strength was more than twice that of the UN forces.
No one can win a high tech war between top tier militaries. The reasons are many, first we live in a nuclear weapons age. That goes beyond strategic weapons, nukes can be used across the full kill chain. Second, 1940s primitive weapons killed 60 million people, so imagine combat capabilities 25 to 50 times that. Third, wars aren't fought in a vacuum turn off the communications grid above the Earth and below the sea. Then the power grid, you have an EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT. MAD, extends beyond nuclear weapons. Don't listen to all that Pentagon speak, they are insane. Pour as much money down that rat hole and you get nowhere fast.
It is by far very objective. You just think cause it doesn’t kiss the behind of your country that it’s not objective. You guys keep telling yourselves that we have you guys c19 back in 2020 when literally 8 billion minus the 1.4 in your country know it came from china.
The concluding remarks redeemed this video. This cannot be about conflict and confrontation and hegemony. This must be about diplomacy and negotiations and respect between (near) peers.
@@unifieddynasty China is aiming to rule the world It's not a secret Every speech of the Leader of the Communist Party regards to become the greatest and biggest nation in the world, translated: to achieve the supremacy in the world. Everything that she's doing is to put herself on the leading of the world for the next century. It's a threat for the entire global stability and security
Good video, the only defect of the video is that Mao's military achievements are underestimated. Mao is actually the most genius military strategist in Chinese history.
🤣 Lin Biao and Peng Dehuai would laugh at this comment. You clearly don’t understand the concept of “military strategy.” Just because Mao purged and killed the great generals, it doesn’t make him a military strategist.
Genius is too powerful a word when assessed against other great figures in Chinese history, or to the other generals under Mao. But this documentary definitely seems to downplay Mao too much.
There is a glaring error in the assessment of the technological development of the Chinese military: it's accelerating not plateauing in the recent years. Look no further than the Zhuhai Air Show 2022, do those new hardware (albeit for export only) mushroomed in every military field look like from a technologically plateauing force?
When we try to analyse an alien culture, we unconsciously think "If I were them what would I do?" Then we look for proofs to match the pattern in our minds. Everybody inevitably does so. The speakers are clearly doing do.
you know, the us (or the united nations force at the time) fought against china back in 1950s. this should be an ESENTIAL point of reference, in terms of attempting to (truly) understand pla. theres no mention whatsoever in this video. you are unfortunately NOT serious about so called "near peer" . is you are not, you will pay the price.
I haven't finished watching found a mistake. The nine-dashed line is not created by Xi. The Republic of China(KMT or Taiwan now) claim the 11-dashed line. Later, Mao thought it was too overbearing and reduced it to the nine-dashed line. It's just that the military strength in that time was too weak so in the past, claiming is just claiming.
With due respect, your speakers have given a twist to the true causes that have given rise to the type of Chinese response, e.g. you had mentioned the Chinese buit the artificial Islands; but, the speaker failed to mention the fact that it was the Philippine and the other smaller nations started building artificial islands in the first place,; but, not China! There are other facts which the preseners failed to address in proper context! ( e.g. Tsung Kuo, the speaker interpreted as center,which was confusing- how should the audience understand by that? These are just a few examples!
If you know PLA's history from founding till end of Korean War, you will know they re-define the honour and glory of Chinese military and even whole country's confidence and fighting spirit - which was lacking for more than 100+ years before that.
there are no PAP in HK, only PLA are deployed in HK, the video show is the HK police not PAP. PAP generally use gear taken from the army reserve, in fact they are created from the reserve and given a separate command structure as part of the reform to take non-combat mission away from the military so the military can be more mission focused. they serve mostly as security for government institution and border control as such they do not have specialised firearm. in the video, you can clearly see the police are carrying western style firearm and riot gear. PAP would have 武警 on their uniform vs Police that would say 警察. these are the tell tale sign of whether they belong to the military devived PAP or the standard Police force.
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I know you did hard work, but the video still makes many mistakes.
My grandfather's older brother was in the Red Army and died in the Chinese Civil War. My grandmother said that at that time many peasants volunteered to join the communist army, because under Chiang Kai-shek's rule, rioters and prostitutes were rampant. The soldiers rob the food and youth（Forced conscription, shot if you don't go） without compensation (at least the PLA made an IOU, which was paid later), and Chiang Kai-shek was very weak and incompetent towards the Japanese. Chiang Kai-shek was a self-disciplined man, but he was cowardly, jealous, and ruthless. He could not run a Republic of China together with the Communist Party, massacred the docile Communists at that time, and was definitely not a leader respected by the people. So he was abandoned by the people. This is what my grandmother said, not any history book, but her own experience.
Can‘t agree with you more. My grandma also had similar experience 🤝
Mao Zedong was back by the Russian and the USA with money and weapons.
No body was backing chiang kai shek and see mao as a main threat rather than the smaller Japanese forces.
Chiang try to save as much money as he could as he doesn't have much. When chaing asked the usa for help, they given him a shipment of old guns and nothing more because the USA does not want chiang to win against mao and bring democracy to China, in order to keep China weak and backwards with mao's victory.
And the USA kept China weak until 1971, when Richard Nixon visited mao to do business because Nixon was afraid to lose China to the Russians as potential ally.
not surprised. Chiang was backed by the US and the rich Chinese, and had way better equipments, and he had to retreat to Taiwan in the end. "abandoned by the people", definitely.
It sounds like your grandma was forced to read too much of maos little red book.
@@SF-zc3mm 。。。 She has experienced the days when the Japanese brought guns to the village to mop up and had to hide in the water tank, the days when the villagers were raped or killed by the Japanese, the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the three-year drought and the cultural revolution. You need to know that Chinese people know more about their own country.
Never thought I could see a fair coverage of China by any American. These guys seems to be approaching China from a realistic point of view and also truly want to understand their adversary.
thats how you win. Not lying/corrupt like russia.
@@AcidBombYTand America, when it comes to social media blackmails
Honestly they are right about China about the most parts but still wrong on minor ones such as they believe China sees the other worlds as competitor, that is not true. China is not competing with most other countries.
I get what you mean. China mostly want to develop and feels as though it has a lot of catching up to do. But the west views this as a direct competition due to the sheer size of China and the strong will of its leaders and people. Definitely a big misunderstanding from the west.
@@AcidBombYT lmao you talking about the americas? literally every video is them being boastful and thinking they are invincible while calling all others a paper tiger, pure arrogance
7:28, why did Mao switch to having an independent army? Because at that time there were brutal and sudden massacres against the communists, they had to protect themselves. And you have avoided describing the persecution of the communists by Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the bureaucratic capitalist party, in a seemingly objective statement. . . Maybe this is the Western narrative, but as a Chinese, I have to add these historical details.
They say both of those things in the video.
When describing the process, they did not say it together. This will definitely weaken people's understanding of the bloody massacres during that period
@@ameliah8164 Directly beforehand, he says Chiang “turned on his communist allies”. In English, “turned on” means “betrayed”, so he was stating that Chiang started attacking the communists. He didn’t directly say “bloody massacre”, but that sort of imagery is unnecessary to the purpose of the video.
Honey, it's different. If it is just betrayal, it can be understood as no longer cooperating. Mere non-cooperation leads to wanting to have an independent army is a radical act. But having to have an army to resist the carnage is a completely different story.
@@ameliah8164 In English the connotation of “betray” is similar to “treason”, so its fitting.
When ask why doesn't China negotiation with US on a nuclear limitation treaty, China spokesman ask "is the US saying they are willing to reduce their warhead to our number?" the Chinese do not understand what the American are offering in the treaty, because if the negotiation is to have parity then US would have to massively cut down their nuclear weapon and in such a treaty, China would not have to reduce anything to begin with, if the negotiation is to impose US superiority over China, why would China agree to such term?
US position lack clarity, and without clarity the request does not sound honest. China read the request for negotiation more as an attempt to blame China for the failure of negotiation than an honest offer to reduce US weapon threat to China. if US really want negotiation, they have to put an offer ON THE TABLE, else going to talks without an agenda or purpose is useless.
Never trust the words of an imperialist nations
Was there any such proposition ? I've never heard this. What Brad Marvel said is surprising. I wonder where he learnt that from. The USA has more than 6000 warheads. Do you have any links?
@@billlee2983 it was in the news in the US a few months ago.
US want China to join the negotiation with Russia, but when he ask US that, no further discussion were made.
America honor treaty… three words of great irony
US wants to bite you more than you think
The biggest problem with army intelligence is the language barrier. It's unrealistic to be a China expert without being fluent in Chinese. Experts need to be as fluent in mandarin as Chinese experts are with English.
edit: Saw the most concrete example with the Xi's speech at the CCP national congress. He said Taiwan 问题. Some translated it in to 'Taiwan topic,' and others 'Taiwan issue,' or 'Taiwan question' and others 'Taiwan problem.' There's a huge spread of meaning and intent here from benign to hostile. As a decision/policy maker, are you going to rely on a translator to frame your analysis?
you cant truly understand someone unless you can understand their language
正确
@@evrydayamerican and you can't truly understand Mandarin without understanding the culture too
And yet there are heaps of so called China Experts in the west who cannot even speak Chinese. What a joke
I would disagree, do you really believe intelligence agencies don't have access to flawless translations?
The opinions of the Chinese people in the comment area are the best portrayal. Even high-level American intellectuals still lack a real understanding of China (if this video is not intended to confuse English-speaking people in the name of popular science), your one-sided description of the history before the founding of the People's Republic of China ignores the Chinese people in history. feelings and attitudes. There is a saying in China that history is written by the people and chosen by the people. It was not the Communist Party and the Kuomintang that made history, but all the Chinese people who chose the Communist Party.
兄弟，外国人可不管这些，他们只相信BBC，CNN
And now the common people are regretting it especially the people of Hong Kong 😂
You don’t get to choose a communist party?
@@ronaldohajong6780 If a 90 percent approval rating is regret, what is your government's approval rating? The media never told you whether the Hong Kong people who cooperated with the anti-China forces to make trouble later went to the UK regret it?
非常同意
China's communist ideology is totally different from what it originally was. It is communism with Chinese characteristics and capitalism combined. It is a potent combination that has contributed to China's economic and military might today that challenges US's supremacy .
Friends of the world, there are two words on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Long live the people's Republic of China.
Long live the great unity of the people of the world.
The Chinese army and technology has become more and more powerful to protect ourself, not for hegemonism. I hope you will trust China more. Peace is the pursuit of the people of the world. The first sentence of the Chinese National Anthem: “People who rise up and do not want to be slaves "
yup, that's why USSR collapsed meanwhile China still keep going up.
@@善-w6yPeople who do not want to be slaves, rise up!
@@luoyanyang7625明明自己就是个奴隶，叫自由的人起来，真可笑！
@@CN-lq2oy 明明你就是个SB却跑出来指指点点，你真是个SB！
Seriously, people are downplaying Mao's strategic abilities in this video. The three great campaigns that led to the CCP victory were all decided by Mao, in opposition to his best generals.
I'd have assessed Mao in the opposite manner. Decent guerilla general, decent inspirer, absolutely terrible statesman who should've never had direct rule.
@@DarkwarriorJ Yes, but the video made it sound like Mao was just a cunning politician without military abilities and basically got his position through smooth talking, which is clearly not the case. He got to where he is because his military suggestions, from the long march, to the guerilla people's war, to taking Manchuria first followed by the three campaigns, all worked.
@@a1to8 Personally, I speculate that it may be a bias from many of us in the west having extensively studied the USSR but not the PRC, and then projecting everything about the USSR onto the PRC. That description largely fits Stalin very well, but it doesn't fit Mao. There's other such apparent analogies between the USSR and the PRC that obscure the very different details or are just wrong, from what I can see.
是的，三渡赤水如果你仔细研究一下。就会发现是一次完美的战术与战略的结合。
毛泽东是一个那个时代的理想主义者，当他的党逐渐偏离他的理想时，他相信那时的人民能够理解和践行他的理想，很可惜当时并不是那样，到如今越来越多中国的年轻人开始学习毛泽东思想，希望能够找到解决现今中国问题的方法@@DarkwarriorJ
17:18 “China views everyone as competiors” this sentence can be applied to all countries. It basically means nothing. This is how a country can survive in the world.
No. Most countries ***businesses*** compete, hard, but at the bureaucracy level the governments tend to help each other out (keeping all the tax slaves in line).
@@staubsauger2305 Ever heard of the Plaza Accord?
@@staubsauger2305 Ever heard of Frédéric Pierucci and the GE takeover of Alstom?
@@staubsauger2305
Ever heard of economic hitman?
this is pure projection....usa views any near peer competitor as an existential threat
Like what the presenter said "No one should call themselves an expert on china" for the most part i don't think these researchers have quite understood completely Mao's role in China and his own political history within the CPC. There are still biases and misunderstandings of the questions "what is the CPC and why the CPC.
没办法，你这两个问题要是回答对了，会动摇米国国本，不管是真的还装的，都只能瞎说🤧🤧
谁让中国人民站起来 中国人民就选择谁
Makes more sense that China claims the SOUTH CHINA SEA, than the US considering Guam and solomon islands as strategic for the US. Also, China doesnt have 800 military bases around the world. This whole thing is projection on the way US does things.
@@gestorespanama oh claiming by name basis only? So it makes sense too for *INDIA* to claim *INDIAN OCEAN* ? 🤣🤣🤣
@@notjohnnyrico only if there's oil 🛢
Excellent presentation. Just FYI, 9-line was originally claimed by Taiwan (and is still claimed by Taiwan as Chinese territory). Note that after WW2, none of the other contending countries existed as countries, they were still all colonies of western powers.
Not only were the 11 dash line first claimed in 1947 by the ROC government, but the US navy actually escorted and transported ROC troops in garrisoning many of the islands in the SCS.
@@zsarimaxim692 The mother of all ironies. 😂
Check again, today became 10 dash line next to Taiwan.
No, it was claimed by Republic of China, not Taiwan, and PRC inherited that
Overlooked detail is that Chinese civilization is only about seventy years old. Claims of historic strength, or economic miracle, is merely propaganda. Emulating the U.S. military is likewise propaganda, as is claiming that the U.S. is in decline.
If you're going to fold each time that the CCP bluffs, then why are you in a position to defer your country's earned authority? Just in it for a paycheque?
China is not a peer. But they'll bluster and play whatever sleight-of-hand they can to win advantage.
I spent many years in business dealings with Chinese in the higher echelons of wealth and power. One has to understand their traditional mindset regarding their position in the world and I don't think westerners can grasp it. The Chinese thoughts and core beliefs are not transmissible to most westerners. Study of Chinese history is essential to understand modern Chinese thought. By and large they haven't changed.
I would have to heavily disagree. The Chinese population isn’t this large homogeneous population that holds the same ideals. I’ve been to Beijing, Guanzhou and Hong Kong, and I can tell you that the locals are far different from each other in many ways. Any person who’s been to China would know that 😂
Are you talking about "sewer oil" because yes we don't get it.
@@0akland510 . You don't understand his comment. Hong Kong is irrelevant mixed people..
@@changchadchanamdong2668 are you telling me that folks from Shanghai and Shenzen are similar to their Beijing counter parts? 😂 you are funny to think they are homogeneous in ideals 🤣
agreed the comments here are completely ignorant. just because you been to a city doesn't mean you understand the cultural mindset. they don't care about elections and democracy. They care about security. and which ever form of government can provide them that they will be content with it...some people want clear directions on how to live their lives and not be left to freely think about it themselves.
You have a good understanding of the military part. However, there are still many wrong understandings about the history of the Chinese Communist Party.
After the founding of the CPC, the CPC was divided into two factions. One faction believed that the Soviet Union's path was correct and that it should completely copy the Soviet model, uprising in cities, occupy cities and carry out revolution.
The other faction is the local faction thought by Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong thought that the theory of communism should be consistent with the actual situation of China, and that it should carry out revolution in the countryside and mobilize the peasants to carry out revolution.
Before 1935, there was always a struggle between the Soviet Party and the native party within the CPC. Most of Mao Zedong's military actions were successful, but the leaders of CPc of the Soviet party seized the right to speak. Therefore, he was always a marginalized figure, and was not even allowed to participate in various meetings and work.
I was trying to reply on this part, when one argued in the video that Mao was by chance elected to be the leader to be in control of the PLA. what a stupid assertion.
Your reply fully explained the history, I am just curious that, how can one believe such low quality documentary
@@forgettohaveaname2954 It can often be hard to get reliable info on controversial parts of history and the PRC is one of the most glaring of examples. Part of this is western bias and part of it's a general hatred and mistrust of communism in general, but it's also because of Chinese propagandize and an overall lack of concrete/unbiased info in general. When it comes to Mao specifically and the early parts of the CCP/CPC there's tons of propaganda that was produced after he rose to power including erasing his competition from history, attributing things others did to him, overstating his accomplishments, understating his failures, and exaggerating the evils of his opponents.
There's also very poor reliable records from the time. Of course the ROC and the communists both painted the other more negatively then they were while making themself seem better which muddies the waters. The civil war itself caused mass chaos which makes things even cloudier, lower literacy rates means we have fewer first hand accounts to begin with, and Japans invasion all mean many records from before 1945 were destroyed even when they were written in the first place (if you've got wars raging across your country and invasions coming from every direction chances are you're not going to go into great detail in your diary). The Japanese destroyed tons of records too, as did both sides in the civil war. The end of the civil war also brought the Cultural Revolution and decades of repression so even without propaganda people werent eager to keep any records that could get them in trouble, which could be just about anything. Today people and even the CCP are more critical of Mao then they were even 20 years ago and his cult of personality is greatly diminished but history is written by the victors and Mao spent decades rewriting history so the records he approved of are sometimes the best or only source of first hand info, and most other sources are terribly biased.
All this combines to make it so that the only records we really have of the early days of communism in China are what the Nationalists wrote, which is biased against the communists, what the USSR wrote, which could be both unreliable and biased, or what the official CCP history says, which was basically written by Mao himself since he purged many of his opponents during his rise to power and then purged many of his allies later to consolidate power. This is why even on major historical stories we have pretty shaky info, which is why you can look up things like The Great Leap Forward and there's a spread of 35 million on the death toll with some estimates at 15mil or lower and some around 55mil. I've read that even with things like some regional famines the PRC basically says that drops in population for a town, city, or district were due to people being displaced or moving while other sources will say those were mostly deaths and there are independent groups who agree with either opinion or a point in the middle.
@@arthas640 Good understanding to the overall, and a richness of reasoning, I applause for your work. but please remember, truth is a thing, the tool of propaganda to form consents is another, Just like the US has been continuously beautifying its ugly history, especially in regarding how they treated the Indians, PPC has its duty to write its history in a sounding way to portray some mistakes bad have-tos. So for an individual, the first smart is to find out the truth, the second is to understand what’s good for the society to portray them, the third , if you can go that far, you may even find out the truth were the best possible already, don’t rush to criticize me, I personally did a lot research to the history that you mentioned
China proper and same thing some guy they keep saying its mine, then go over here and do it again and it's all intentional, we have those too. They use to do that after Mao.
Just wondering, Jiang had massacrer against communists before the Japanese invaded, so why would the communist would act like Jiang's Consumables?
These guys describe China's efforts to defend their land and sea against outside aggression. But it's interesting that they don't see their own actions in building bases around China as aggressive.
China operates death camps and is currently committing genocide.
Just being a little bit of the devil's advocate here, but the same can be said about Americans not seeing the building of hundreds of foreign military bases as aggressive
Exactly lol. They even said China look at everybody as a competitor lol. I don't know about that. Today, US is the one that said China is our competitor lol. Damm hypocrites.
@@TheSAMTHOO I think it’s really a case of “dignify is only above the edge of a blade and truth is only within the range of cannons”.
Because their values are based on cult believing and cheating. Their monotheistic core caused colonization and massive genocide in each continent, but definitely conflict with the values they showed, like diversity, respect, human rights.... It's gross, really.
China & India, you should do your job now. This planet need a new peaceful concept. The one, don't manipulate countries anymore, get some politicians weak points to control them for your own interests is evil.
19:47 Just want to pointing out a mistake in the map of China. Fine, let’s put aside the Taiwan issue. But, how about Hainan? The large island southern of the mainland. If you really want to understand China, please pay respect to the basic geographical facts.
Thank you for pointing out that error in our map. We will make a note of it in the description. We are quite disappointed that we missed it. We appreciate your attention to the details of our film.
I don’t think it’s fair to suggest this omission reveals a lack of understanding. It was a simple mistake.
@@ArmyUniversityPress I dont mind as a Chinese myself. I care about the quality of the content which is fantanstic, thank you!
"We will fight the enemy in our own way, at the time we determine, in the place we determine. We'll not act according to the enemy's plot, nor will we fall into the enemy's trap, " Mao Zedong.
CWP Cyny zmiażdzą USA Żydy 🤣✌️🥳
Tak ,😈☮️😭😇
"We will fight the enemy after the Japanese destroyed them."
Mao Zedong
@@wuhaninstituteofvirology5226 然而国共内战开始时国民党自然保持着巨大的优势，奈何派系林立心不齐
我打我的，你打你的
6:23 Chiang Kai-shek is not Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yat-sen is a selfless revolutionary, the real Three Principles of the People. But Chiang Kai-shek was more authoritarian and did not allow a true multi-party system (the Communist Party and the Kuomintang govern the country together), for which he massacred tens of thousands of Communists and shot and massacred students who were demonstrating. These are real histories. China had a chance to become a republic with a completely Western system, but Chiang Kai-shek led the country to have only one ruling party left, so let’s compete. Facts have proved that Chiang Kai-shek and the bureaucratic monopoly capitalism he represents are a complete failure in terms of productivity and reputation. He was kicked out of the mainland, stole a lot of cultural relics, and lived in Taiwan Province. Even after Japan's defeat, he was still close to Japan's war criminal leader, and he did not have the backbone that the Chinese value most
Chiang was a national socialist and hated capitalism, he wrote a letter begging hitler to help him, before requesting aid from the usa from japans invasion
I appreciate how this piece was focused on developing understanding of a current topic, versus reviewing a historical event.
There is a great cultural gap between the East and the west, and China's history and culture are more complicated. As Chinese, we have never thought of more expansion. We just want to take back Taiwan. Taiwan is also an internal affair of China (a problem left over after the armistice between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party). The main reason is that the United States and the West often use the Taiwan card to stimulate China.
The Chinese people know that every dynasty or empire is a cycle of yin and Yang. When it reaches the extreme, it will decline. When everything reaches the extreme, it will develop in the opposite direction. China is now on the road of development, and its economic volume will become larger and larger. If the national military can not protect its economy, there will be no guarantee for its economic development. It is like a lamb to be slaughtered. This has happened several times in Chinese history.
What Westerners need to do is to face it frankly and develop together. The Chinese government never interferes in the internal affairs of other countries and never exports war to other countries.
The United States often says that China threatens them, but the United States has long deployed many military bases around China, posing a threat to China. On the other hand, if China deploys military bases around US territory and uses warships to cruise in US territorial waters, what would the American people think?
China has been a cultural based nation instead of races since about 221 B.C. The language, currency, measuring were standardized since then. So many dynasties were established and collapsed one after another. Some of the dynasties were established by the nomadic people who usually were living north of China; however, all of them were localized or merged into "Han". Long story short, China has been gone through up and down cycles just like four seasons repeating each year. Just like a tree, when the leaves fall in the winter and come back in spring, because the root is always there.
interesting point
Excellent, you know better than most foreign China experts, because you understand the root of Chinese civilization - the culture.
As a Chinese, I don’t think we want own & run the world like the US does. We simply want a peaceful world there every country has an opportunity to develop and prosper.
That's the fundamental beliefs in Confucius culture.
@@x-creator4460 The fundamental culture of the west is founded on barbarianism. A barbarian can only seem nice when it can bully at will.
Win win relationships. Vs usa theft and slavery relationships
We look at actions. Not words.
That’s what Chinese people want, but not what the CPC wants. All of CPC ideology is about one thing - total control of people. From your money and possessions, to your behavior, to even your speech and thoughts, Communist ideology is entirely oriented around controlling all of it. It’s why you can’t own property, can only lease it. It’s why your money isn’t safe in Chinese banks and so many Chinese people are trying to invest their money in the EU, Canada, or US where it’s protected by rule of law. It’s why the CPC censors all media and the internet. CPC does that to its own people, and is now starting to do that to the rest of the world too. But the world won’t accept it.
As a Chinese mainlander, but an expate overseas - so no need to criticise why I post here, I'd like to raise several misleading arguments in this video, which is streamlined by assertions.
1. The origin of the name Zhongguo- center country, has no relation to any perception of Chinese nation's arrogance to be the center-or the height of nations, it was only a geographic term that reflect their understanding of their where about. In regarding to the national personality, Chinese as a nation has its trait of humble, modesty and unsaggressiveness, thankful to the deep root of Confusious phylosophy;
2. China now has no willing to be the great power in the world, militarily or economically, It is pursuing the equally among all nations. in other words, it doesn't accept the current rule that a minority of nations and population dominate the world, and under a Zero-Sum ideology, the other nations and population including China servers as the fertilizer to nuture the alegance of the minors.
3. China doesn't see everyone else like enemy, it only see who decided to be that of Chinese, enemies. eg the US, the Japanese, and the US controlled Anglo-Saxon nations.
I am from South Korea and we are also deeply influenced by the Confucius culture since childhood - "we are just tiny part of nature" versus "we are the center of the universe" attitude in the west. My generation had to learn 漢字 since elementary school, but the current generation is learning English.😔
@@inlee99 It's Okay to learn English from my point of view, globalization should continue to grow, and English is more accessible than Chinese. Chinese mainlanders all learn English from elementary school too, and that doesn't prevent us from developing our Confucious mindset.
@@forgettohaveaname2954 Hopefully, a common language the world over will help bring us closer to peace. It's such a shame because the common people of China, Japan, and the US have absolutely no desire to do harm to one another.
I agree. The region was called "Central Plain" in ancient China and then later evolved into Zhongguo (center country). So it definitely has geographical and practical origin.
@@inlee99 Your Korean historical materials and ancient books are all recorded by Chinese character 漢字, you younger generation has been artificially cut off from history.
Very informative and balanced perspective. I’m a Chinese and I would never wish my country and my brothers to go into war with US or any other countries for that matter. But we will always defend our nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In China we have always been taught through generations - Our nation comes before our family, before us as individuals.
Yep 👍🏻 still there is so much missing what about the real wars (the secret wars) the true main goals that would define Humanity Future. That would be interesting. Me, never wish to come close to a global war. it is ok as long is in the video games but in the real world Nope.
It is the sell out democrats in the USA who sold all military tech to china! And allowed all chinese spies to work in US tech companies and STEAL OUR technology!!
The wellbeing of the nation is certainly more important to that of the individual
It ain't looking good, my dude.
Enjoying that vpn to acces youtube?
Respectful discussion! I find the panelists are fair and factual. They are so much more accurate in their statement and assessment of china than the folks on the Capitol Hill or the White House.
Facts based is better than accusations.
Every time I see these comments? Not only when I talk to stupid people. All I have heard I really get pissed oh no China will beat us. No China will be put in there place so we can now be confident that we are going to win
Though they still missed a lot about China's revolutionary history, such as warlords. They intentionally avoided Mao's military skills and depicted him into a political-only leader.
@@junyuanma4243 They addressed his military skills as being poor, noting that at one point he was demoted. It was later due to other leaders failure that he rose through the communist system. They also discussed how the nationalist and communist united to crush warlords in the north only for the nationalist leader to turn around and attack the communist.
@@TheRyanandRachael Yes he addressed, but he omitted other important information to make him look like one with poor military skills.
one of the few pieces that are produced by experts that know their stuff about China, and where the assessments are based on facts, not on wishful thinking or hearsay.
Both are pretty rare qualities. I'm a relatively patriotic American but I'm also a realist and hate it when people let themselves be blinded by patriotism or their own biases. There are many who either view China as an unstoppable juggernaut (a prediction people also had in the 20the century for Germany twice, Japan twice, the USSR a few times, and India about every year) or they still think of China like it's the 80s or 90s and they're just a struggling 3rd world nation.
I am surprised by the fair down to earth analysis, after way too much of mainstream media propaganda.
Yes, you have to know your enemy to know yourself. I do hope both military strategy makers and most important politicians could truly understand Chinese culture, history and military doctrine. This is the only way to prevent hot war which benefits no one.
Well presented, keep up the good work
Fully agreed, the most important mission ,for all strategies makers all over the world to me is to prevent hot war which hurt everyone, not only those greatest powers, but also those minor regions and nations. War always hurts.
但是这个视频也没有提到对他们自己（美国）军事能力的认知，现在的美军早已不再是当年的美军了。我觉得现在美国人最应该了解的对自己军事能力的评估。
Better than what comes out of the filthy mouths of politicians.
@Jack China 中国人要有自信,但决不可以盲目自信. 我绝对相信中国领导人有智慧去和平崛起.以避战止战,以实力竞争避开冲突.
但我担心的是平民老百姓的不理性,特别是在网络上看到的.
希望中国举国上下可以沉着气应对接下来许许多多的挑战与挑衅, 特别是来自于不孝子孙台湾.
中国加油, 也为我们这些在外国生根的黄炎子孙争一口气.
@@danielchua1713 这就是为什么我不是很赞同“民主选票制度”的原因，民众总是短视的，竞选人为了获取选票总要迎合大多数民众的意愿，很多台湾蛙蛙一直说中国没有选票不民主，我真的有点搞不懂他们在想些什么，如果中国真的是选票选出来的领导人，早就不得不迎合民意把台湾收回来了。选票制在民生方面是有优势的，但在国家发展战略层面就不行了。说不好哪种制度更好，我更相信世界上没有完美的制度，只有相对合适的制度。
Enjoyed this video because it is objective without bias and not a western propaganda.
Is it? I don't think the Chinese Navy can hold a candle to us.
@@rmerrifield100 well, maybe same as the US won't change their "eagle" mentality and withdraw their military bases overseas. The eagle won't obey like chicken unless it meets more powerful creature. This is a pure military-for-military talk with some "mistakes" for example taking the humor by Chairman Mao as real "the Japanese saved us (CPC)". The fact was the opposite.
@@toicoi6758 They did, Mao hid behind the KMT so they can take the brunt of the war, while Mao was doing the bare minimum. With this, Mao won, and proceeded to murder 65 million of his own people through famines and 2 Billion birds causing further famine.
@@2hotflavored666 facts said "no"
@@toicoi6758 *Real* facts don't care about your feelings, or the propaganda you been feed by the most evil regime in Human history.
Great and informative video, as a former corporal and a platoon sergeant in the 2nd Brigade (pre-164th Brigade) of PLAMC (2016-2021), PLAMC also adopted a similar combined arms doctrine to that of the army, but there are a few points in the video I cannot concur:
1) PLA has never been a conscript-based military at least since 1949, although legally defined as "conscripts" (during the service soldiers receive no "salary" but "allowances" instead), everyone de facto enlists voluntarily. You may argue that it had not been a "professional" military for a long time, but definitely not conscripts.
2) At the battalion level, there was NOT a "sergeant major" or "platoon/company sergeant" existing before 2017. The battalion HQ only has the battalion commander, political instructor, one or two deputy battalion commanders, and several couriers. But it was accurately pointed out that there were no battalion staff pre-2017.NCOs in Platoon, company, and battalion HQ began to exist in circa 2017.
3) I do not believe that the PLA Group Army is equivalent to the U.S Army Corps, as U.S Army Corps was led by a Lieutenant General and GA was led by a Major General. I'd rather believe the PLA Group Army is equivalent to a reinforced U.S Army Division (reinforced with several combined arms bayonet brigades etc. ) and they are both led by a major general.
4) PLA began experimenting with combined arms battalions as early as 1975 (I read about this in the brigade archive division where there was a copy of PLA Newspaper dated back in 1975 reported an unidentified corps of Beijing Military District began forming combined arms battalion). It's presumed that it failed at that time but definitely provided a scope of the doctrine. I would argue that the PLA combined arms battalion isn't actually based on that of the US but PLA's own experience instead.
I mean... yes it did combine elements from different arms, but the focus and emphasis on digitalization is the key during the transformation. It leads to the introduction of digital devices and terminals to almost every squad vehicle to make sure that intel processing burdens can be shared upon each terminal rather than the battalion HQ alone. So the term "combined arms" in the Chinese language is actually more related to digitalization rather than simply combining different arms and professions.
Secondly, the PLA has a relatively larger contingent of ground artillery than the equivalent echelon of the US as the PLA relies mainly on ground fire support rather than naval and air fire support (The majority of the combined arms battalions in PLA are also very capable of calling for air support but not a huge fan of it yet AFAIK).
Thirdly, PLA employs organic logistics elements to each echelon while the US often attaches them (FSB and FSC) from a higher echelon.
Lastly, the PLA combined arms battalion is NOT smaller in size when compared to that of the US, the PLA CABs have 4 maneuver companies, 1 firepower company, 1 combat support company, and 1 HQ element so it's 6 companies plus one HQ element while the ABCT-CAB has only 3 maneuver companies and 1 HQ element so I have no clue where LTC McCaughkin drew the conclusion that Chinese battalions are smaller "in composition" 38:45, enlighten me if possible.
lol
I hear that they dont enforce conscription a lot but even that sounds kind of iffy. They had things like forced labor for the military or military related projects, mandatory enrollment in paramilitaries, militarization of what in the west would be civilian organizations (police, border guards, merchant marines, etc), mobilization of the populace and other things that aren't _technically_ conscription but would almost certainly be counted as such if they occurred in the west. The military itself wouldnt need to enforce conscription with all that going on since people will volunteer for a better job rather than be forced into a worse one, especially in times of hardship. After the death of Mao China really modernized and after Deng's reforms they've often been able to raise recruitment standards by paring down the military so even things like forced labor or mobilization of civilians hasnt been relevant for decades.
China isnt the only country to do stuff like that. The US for example had plenty of volunteers for the Coast Guard, merchant marine, and parts of the military even during WW2 and Vietnam since people volunteered to avoid active duty (a worse job) and the draft also drove up volunteers for war industries as people raced to get jobs that would exempt them from the draft. Many European empires could claim similar since they often were able to avoid a draft by drawing on their colonies to fill any gaps or since some colonies had to provide soldiers and workers as a tax (corvee system) or were sometimes pressured to do so (some Indian princes received more investments or business deals from Britain if they sent more troops and/or laborers from their state so they "volunteered" them). It's a bit like "creative bookkeeping": they werent conscripted, they just had little to no choice but to volunteer.
@@fengm9873 so?Try to vilify China one more time that no one surprise?
叛徒上油管啦
@@QODHardasiandickBAC Literally…but seems didn’t draw much attention or CIA already contacted…
damn… we are not even a qualified peer…as a former US army sergeant definitely won't show off so much with PLA😂😂😂
I would like to begin my comment with a quote from Sunzi: “知己知彼 方能百战不殆”, Which translate as “Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated”
I am quoting this mainly because I think this American (or to be more specific American Military think tank)'s assessment of China/PLA is spot on regarding most of the issues it covered. There might be a little exaggerated regarding the PLA's capabilities. I mean US's military spending is still more than the next 11 nations combined, let alone the fact that most of them are US's close allies. However it is always better to over estimate your "enemy" than under estimate them.
As a Chinese who has lived in the States for the last 15 years (first studied to get my PhD and then work as a research scientist), I see both nations as my beloved parents, and who would want to see their parents fighting each other? However, through out of the years, I have been hearing an increasing amount of narratives which basically treat the other side as a potential enemy. This documentary is just one another example. It is seems from history patterns, that whenever a new power rises, there will be a fight. And if that pattern holds, just like what LTC Dave Mc Caughrin says "Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when" that the two forces will eventually cross swords. I don't want to believe this theory or prediction, but pathetically my logic tells me that might be true, so now all I can do is hoping that day may never come, just be as late as possible. I do hope you guys could understand my feelings over these issues.
Do you have any Chinese immigrant friends that have expressed similar or different feelings as yours? There’s a lot of Chinese students at my university and I wonder what they must think of all this…
@@XxfishpastexXI am a university faculty in China and I lived in US for 9 years and got PhD degree in US. In my opinion, not only the Chinese immigrants, but also most of Chinese people, have similar opinions above. I quote one representative sentense from a patriotic movie in China "Heng kong chu shi". The movie is about the history Chinese people developed A-Bomb in 1960s, the movie was made in 1999 when US just bombed Chinese ambassy in Yugoslavia. The words is as follows: "We must say that US is a beautiful country, but they should't bully us like right now(in cold war), and make me want to say: no mxxxfxxxer". We can see that even at that moment, the Chinese people is still rational and admit the greatness of US. To sum up, there are two bottom lines of Chinese people. 1. Don't treat us like the enemy. 2. Don't try to make trouble in our backyard. Therefore, I think the video here is one of the most objective video I saw in recent years by US official media. Thanks.
BTW, most of the Chinese people can distinguish between the American people and American politicians
你认为美国会愿意让十几亿中国人过上和美国人同样富裕的生活吗？
I hope the EU, NATO come apart and Europe goes back to the way things used to be before the EU. The way EU is now the individual States( former Nations) the citizens are being asked to sacrifice ever more their own economic well being for the greater equity of the entire world. This reminds me very much how BolSHEVviks in Russia and PolPots Khmer Rouge asked the people to sacrifice ( starve their selves to death) for the greater good of all. I see the EU plans on seizing the Dutch Farmers land the same as Lenin, Stalin, Mao seizing land in the name of Communism as the same thing. The International Socialists ( Left) have been around atleast since Carl Marx , maybe even since French Revolution and maybe ever since European Enlightenment Movement ( Renaissance Period). There always seems to be this never ending conflict between Beehive Collectivist " WE THINK" CULTSand those love people who love Individuals Freedoms and Individual Property Right and Individual Sovereign of Ones own Mind.
You thought official medias from the UsS military will be propaganda, but actually it's one of the most objective analysis on China's military there is.
When missile start flying they does the fighting and dying not some political commentators, politicians or TH-cam content creators they will be the first to dodge the draft.
Thats because the U.S. Army fights wars professionally, we don't give a damn about "image" when our back is up against the wall.
It is good to be objective when analyzing your enemy. Otherwise you decieve yourself to their advantage
Fails to mention China is mostly reactive.
China was not the first building airports and radar installations. In the South China, on disputed Philippine Waters.
Vietnam, Malaysia & Taiwan were the first to build military outpost on disputed Philippines waters. China just followed.
@@irimeyilmaz956 Western and Russian media and politics tends to highly discount the actions of smaller regional powers I've noticed. We just don't pay attention to what Saudi Arabia is doing, or Turkey, or Poland, or Indonesia and so on. It's a pretty big blindspot and will probably bite us in the butt at some point.
15:57 is incorrect, those are Hong Kong police force officers of the riot control branch, not the PAP from the mainland.
20:00 Y'all butchered the map here. Northeastern India isn't shaded into India, and Myanmar (which borders China, and is politically interfered by China) is labeled as Thailand (which does not border China, but the ruling regime does collaborate with China somewhat).
Thank you for pointing out that error in our map. We will make a note of it in the description. We are quite disappointed that we missed it. We appreciate your attention to the details of our film.
one-fifth of man kind and in their own court. This with out a doubt, places things into perspective
Understand this movie is mainly for Americans , that this is the most objective I have seen.
It is inequitable and crass to slander PLA's hero in WW2 against Japan. If PLA followed Chiang Kai-shek's order at that time, they will be used as cannon fodder without doubt. Actually PLA fought in their own ways, such as guerrilla warfare, which sacrificed themselves a lot and caused severe trouble to Japanese, according to the Japanese document and old man in China. This video also doesn't take account that KMT's army had took all American weapons and supplies from WW2 to civil war.
Don't looking China in your own thinking way. Don't use power and don't have power is totally different,China has the power but China never use this power like the US did. Just remember that You should not force others to do what you dislike. Respect to the difference in the world is a base quality of a civilized country.
What is China doing with their power over Uyghur peoples? US and China are incomparable.
Modinger was actually inaccurate about Mao in his leadership competence in the Red Army. Mao was not a centric figure in early Red Army because of the structure of Communist International. Red Army suffered great losses in early stage against nationalists because of the bad judgments by the Soviet, though in good faith. It was a major different revolutionary background in China vs Soviet so many experiences did not apply. A good example is the theory of 农村包围城市. This was also a reason why the famous Long March happened. After Zunyi meeting, Mao became influential in the power center, and the Red Army started to gain more strength. You could find a lot of evidence in the party documents etc.
On top of that, the three great battles over the Nationalists were all decided by Mao primarily, sometimes in opposition to generals like Lin Biao. Mao was instrumental in the CCP's victory. IT's nonsense that he takes no credit. Mao did not rise to the top just through his ideas, it was through the fact that his ideas and suggestions actually worked most of the time.
Mao earned his support victory by victory
This is the type of presentations quality I look for, no bias or one side story.. excellent work 👏🏻.
Thank you.
All the best for both nations, hope their govs behave & think about their own people and not world domination.
你是在说美国吗？ 对 美国应该规矩点 别到处入侵其他国家 世界上没有哪个国家需要另一个国家的军队强行闯进去 美国收割着全世界金钱 毫不夸张 世界上有几千万人因为美国 变成难民甚至死亡
Agreed
I dont think this is very objective actually,also the maps in the video is wrong
Additional info: Chiang kai-shek was a US-backed dictatorial leader of KMT who abandoned Sen's ideology by military forces after Sen's death. killing counterless non-KMT members (communists and other democratists)....unlike his brother-in-law, the father of new China(POC & PRC), Sunyata Sen. Sunyat Sen was a true nationalist. He accommodated Communists and democratists into the KMT. Keep this in mind. CCP was one of the political parties of ROC. There's an incorrect narrative about the CCP in WWII in this video. KMT was the absolute power to fight against the Japanese in early-mid battles. They were passive to fight in the mid-late period. They even tried to co-op with Japanese invaders to wipe out PLA. The CCP started to fight against the Japanese in the mid-late period.
Facts
Hmm, Mao was a major factor in the Long March and the development of Guerilla Warfare. He may not have been the best general, certainly not the best conventional general, but as a militant revolutionary, he was quite adept.
YES!!! The way they went out of their way to diminish his contributions and paint him more as an opportunist is infuriating. I value accuracy in information, not ideological grandstanding. And the way they diminish the PLA versus the ROC army is absolutely bizarre. These people are not experts, more than they are ideologues. or at the very least the editing team is as such.
@@sojourner4726 Fact is, militarily Taiwan is hopelessly outnumbered on all fronts. Western media tend to suggest that the US would pursue direct intervention in a PLA invasion scenario, but they have forgotten that Biden needs to win elections, Xi doesn’t and he knows it. The US has never plunged itself into a direct conflict with a nuclear power and I do not think they will deviate from this policy. Sending aid, planes, weapons, providing intel, yes. But fighting for Taiwan and risk casualty numbers not seen since Vietnam is something the US public cannot stomach. Japan and South Korea will also not allow the US to launch strikes from their territory as their population falls within PLA’s retaliatory range.
Me too. I had read many articles about his military doctrine and actual combats he commanded. The red army was on the verge of extinction if there was no decision reversal at Zunyi. as a leader, he was thinking strategically and tactically. During the war with Japanese Empire, the No 8 Route army defended and defeated Japanese invaders trying to expand westward to access Shanxi coal and natural resources.
@@Davionknight1 you'd be surprised how many Americans are willing to fight, same with our allies now china in the other hand Chinese are not happy with their government but you dont see that with Chinese controlled media 🤡💀especially how their banks took people money to some scamming investors and have a huge debt and people refusing to pay for their mortgages on houses that aren't even built lmao! 🤣
Tbf, I dont think that they were necessarily being dismissive of Mao. Even military historians will often struggle to distinguish between tactical and strategic proficiency. For example, its why in the mainstream in the US folks often tend to underrate generals Grant and Sherman, both brilliant strategic thinkers, but relatively average in their generalship at the tactical and operational.
Their assessment of Mao probably stems from this dichotomy. He was primarily a strategic and political thinker. Hence as you noted, his biggest contributions being in the realm of doctrine and strategy.
In cases of military leaders with these skill sets, historically they often tend to be mediocre or outright bad when it comes to the operational/organizational, and the tactical.
Truly superb presentation in every way. I have some research to do! Thank you!
Very well made, its respectful and not a bunch of mud slinging.
I hate commies, but it’s hard to watch an intellectual video when the creator is taking sides instead of coming from an objective view
Propaganda is for the public not the military
Facts and strategic information should never contain mud or politics.
its pretty well made given how little the US knows about China.
hell, it even has the map of China drawn wrong in this video. so i wouldnt take the details in this material seriously.
@@wli2718 Yeah, isn’t Hainan part of China? It was excluded.
I think the guy in the dark suit said it really well in the end "the issue [the US] need to think our way through [or] the question remains will america make that attitudinal adjustment that's necessary to live in a future world at peace albeit competitive[ly] but at peace..." with a gradually rising near peer china? I believe the answer to that question is: its going to be very difficult for the US to make that attitudinal adjustment without significant bloodshed on both sides! which is very sad for everyone!
Funny, The answer also looks like one of factor which created the question or issue.
Good video ! US shouldn't worry China's growth if you don't go to their backyard and provoke matters.
This entire video still feels like the historians are speaking from a position of a World Police Force, and that China is just another nation under their watch. And that Xi has absolute power over all of the Communist Party, when in reality he can also be kicked out. They keep mentioning over and over again that the US has global responsibilities. Umm, no one gave you those "responsibilities", you gave those to yourselves. I think the reality is, after so many years of a great power (USA) lording over the world, all of a sudden, they realized, wait.... we don't actually own the world, and that another great power might actually rise in influence. And now they're trying to do everything they can to calculate just how much influence America would lose around the world with the rise of China. If you look at this from China's perspective, it's no wonder they see this as a containment strategy rather than a true cooperative world. And I think the reasoning behind why the US still sees themselves as the "good guys" is because we've been brainwashed to think only western style liberal democracies are good, and all other forms of government are abusive and will eventually take over the world. When in reality, if your system of government truly is superior and works for the people, you should have no fear from other governments out competing yours, especially when you have thee strongest military in the world.
A major mistake in US foreign policy (and often domestic as well) is their tendency to 'personify' relationships, ignoring the institutional aspects. Xi Jinping didn't 'take power' in 2012. The party selects its leader in the same way as similar organizations. He was promoted since he embodied the goals and aspirations of the party, not vice versa. Xi has no personal ambitions beyond the same as every other good leader - they don't want their country (or company or party or ...) to falter under their watch. The goal to modernize the PLA was not Deng's goal, nor Xi's. It was the goal of the CPC and the PRC. The CPC is closer to the holding company of a multinational conglomerate. The property doesn't belong to the CEO. He is only the steward and manager of it during his tenure. Just as a board of directors doesn't micromanage every department and division, but just sets broad goals and policies and ensures the components work together, the Politburo of the CPC and the State Council of the PRC do the same. Key people may hold both positions, but those positions have distinct roles and responsibilities. Does it create overlap? Sure, but it is more similar to the interlocked boards of keiretsu or chaebols, or among the Fortune 500.
cant agree more👍
Please tell me some reasons, why do you think "chinese model" is something better, or at least comparable to liberal democracy. We can discuss bacis freedoms, form of governing, relationship to other countries and groups of ppl and so on.
Why do you think this authoritarian national socialistic one-party super-nationalistic model is something good and why?
Democracy is for the mob. Republic is for the individual.
@@robrechwithoutzaza7992 Well, the way that you started out with "authoritarian national socialistic one-party super-nationalistic..." I think kind of already skewed your views. The media uses a lot of those gotcha words, but let's start out with equity: I believe China's model is a lot more equitable for all people living there. Which does mean more government involvement in people's lives. Their biggest achievement in the past few decades has been the eradication of extreme poverty for over 800 million Chinese people. And the way they did that was by sending out an army (I think 3 million?) government workers who each was assigned a village to work and live with. And they would work and live beside the locals for years, understanding their needs, understanding what they're lacking (Roads, running water, electricity). They goals were to get everyone in China access to basic housing, clothing, food, electricity, running water, free education till 9th grade, and free basic healthcare. And they didn't just stop there, they also sent in specialists to help the people grow and sell different foods, products, and ultimately have a source of income for each village. And once they have those sources of income, more economic opportunities open up for them, more growth, more wealth being spread around, etc.
I particularly liked and appreciated Dr Geoff Babb realistic view.
It's odd, the U.S. for all intent and purposes help facilitate rise of modern China and now it's woken to the fact it can no longer influence nor control it like it thought it could. Nice to see the U.S. rushing, alas far to late, to understand Chinese history, culture, after over a century of neglect. But then again, it did the same with both the Vietnamese and Chinese during the Viet Nam War.
Sorry to say but USA has a poor sense of judgement when choosing allies. PAKISTAN as an ally was hiding Osama. Most of 9/11 bombers were Saudi. Saudis have used US weapons to commit war crimes in yemen. US helped China against USSR and now the same China is threatening USA. 🤔🤔🤔
There's too much money to be had to have stirred up the military machine towards China as an adversary. Russia presented very little opportunity cost in terms of war. As long as the Yuan keeps showing up in the right pockets there won't be the sort of reaction there was towards the Soviets.
Well as a chinese, i have 2 say it's a high quality presentation，we really need 2 know each other batter
Greetings from the USA!
The People's Armed Police do not operate in Hong Kong and were not part of the Hong Kong protests and riots. It was the Hong Kong police that maintained the peace in Hong Kong.
This video felt like it ended a bit too quickly. Great interview, through and through.
Civil war is not finished yet, and Taiwan is still last piece of puzzle.
Still have North and South Korea to go.
Having lived & worked in NY & Chicago through the 1990s, with due respect for america's freedom & democracy, and having lived in China since 2002, i'll have this to say. Western perspective of China have no traction with anything to do with the Truths, it's just a perspective modeled after what the west thinks & imagines to be after the western way of thinking & doing everything. I see & feel a more Peaceful, Orderly & Safe environment when living in China, much more than in america. Most of the image & perception of China put out here by western elements, thinking that western people know more about China than the Chinese themselves, is both logic defying & hilarious when america thinks it knows best about everyone, when america today has deteriorated into the abyss of destruction with the huge amount of federal debt & societal mess like gun violence, mass shootings & front~running by pelosi with the powerful enriching themselves as the norm & getting away Scot Free.
It would be fortunate for those living the US if they could appreciate how truthful is the info about China that you tryto point out to them... It is because of westerners streaming videos about the conditions within China that many of us who live in North America have respect for the chinese way of life... We ignore the reality of the strength of China to our detriment.
True true. 👍
Well hey, chives will be chives.
Mmmmmhmm... So the oligarchs in China that "exploit" (polite way to say it) they're female workers... Or when things like evergrand drag the entire economy to hell with what is basically a ponzy scheme... That kind of thing gets thoroughly punished, yeah? Just prosecuted to the max? Dealt with swiftly?
As an American who has lived around the world and met many Chinese people, speaks the language and has evesdropped on many conversations in many corners of the globe, I think it's very Chinese to think that a melting pot culture that has been studying other cultures, their ways of warfare and observed many doctrinal evolutions since its inception might not have just a bit of an idea of what is going on in China. It came as a great surprise to those patrons in my bars when I knew what they were up to as well.
But hey, I'm just a dumb American with no cultural perception, what do I know?
🤔😉😘
Great stuff like always!
It’s the 1919 Paris Accord after WW1 that drove China into a new direction, Mao was heavily influenced by two of his communist mentors Chan and Lee whose doctrines had influenced the Chinese leaders, in particular Xi who endorsed the making of a TV series in 2021 to commemorate the influence and achievements of Chan and Lee
Yep somehow those imperial power thought it was a good idea to give a piece of China to Japan was a good idea. As expected, large scale protest erupted within China and this event mark the beginning of modern day China.
3:48 you are wrong, one of the reasons why Mao was so respected and admired by the whole nation just because he was a great military artist. WHAT? he didn't deserve it (his military power)? hahahaha okay, okay, then who command the battle in Korean War to beat you guys back to 38 lines?? Mao is the general command in Beijing not Peng dehuai, who just did what Mao told him to do in the big view. Yes, small or concrete battles were directed by Peng since he was the frontbattle commander.
He suffered 800,000+ casualties against the US 124,000 casualties, while outnumbering the US forces by nearly 4 to 1. That's not the performance of a good commander.
@@sleepnaught We don't have logistical support, we don't have medicine, we don't have planes and tanks, we don't have air supremacy, we don't have enough artillery, we don't even have winter clothes. We drove the US troops from the Yalu River to the 38th Parallel. Generally speaking, 5:1 is a reasonable ratio considering that the U.S. military does not count soldiers from other countries
@@stanleo9661 The only other country with any numbers to speak of was South Korea, everyone else in the allies only provided token support. The North Korean Korean army was also with the Chinese. So, what I said stands. 4-5:1 ratio and the Chinese and North Koreans still suffered immense casualties versus the Americans. The doesnt even account for the fact we could have nuked Beijing if we wanted.
5:1 advantage, plus basically having home advantage due to proximity to China versus the US being 6,000 miles away. And the best the Chinese could do is fight to a stalemate. Pathetic.
As a Chinese, I am partially relieved to know the existence of these rational gentlemen, but not fully because whether the highest commander is rational enough or not is another issue
let this be clear. america does not want war with china, and america will not fire the first shot should it come to that. china would have to but i believe china will not fire the first shot either so i do not think war will come
These people are largely representative of the consensus, and consensus matters a lot more than the presidents opinion in America politics. I will say that the president is largely in tune with these opinions as well. He seems to want to strengthen American ties with allies and to help nations in the region against Chinese aggression.
As an aside I lived in China a decade ago, and though I hate the CCP I love China's people, history, and culture. I hope that our nations can avoid catastrophe and I wish nothing but success on the Chinese people.
@@spartanparty3894 Where are you from, if I may ask?I think we have not actively invaded any country since the founding of the People's Republic of China
@@番茄爆炒西红柿酱 I just wrote and essay and accidentally deleted it. I am American, and if you look it up (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China) then you can tell that that statement is false.
I wish you the best, have a good day.
@@spartanparty3894 There's nothing in it
15:56 That's not the PAP, that's HK police
Very good video, makes both the Chinese and the Americans rest easy after watching👍🏻
One thing they failed to mention is china lies alot about its military capabilities. Alot of CGI and reused launches to spread propaganda. On the other hand the US and NATO allies have the highest level of military might.
I love how they talk about another attacking country because it’s going close technologically and also talk about US being a global empire as if that’s normal and everyone should be onboard! at one point all the talking head experts say “we need to keep them in the first island chain”!! I’m sorry? who is going to put you in your chain so not go around like a rabid wolf attacking everyone that doesn’t bend over
No one is tough guy. 😂
Outstanding, fair minded, objective analysis of Chinas military capabilities.
Excellent video that should be seen more than once by all Americans! “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Sun Tzu! War should be an instrument of national survival not a tool to get votes! I used the incendiary and inaccurate term enemy but am quoting someone. The relation ship between China and the US is COMPLICATED but competitor would be a less incendiary term but Sun Tzu did use the word enemy to the best of my knowledge. I was called on the word enemy by K and have added this section to clarify. My goal at least is to make bilateral relations good and the word enemy does not do this. I will endeavor to be more intelligent in the use of language about this important topic in the future!
It's the politicians who always push us into the edge of the wars. America's credibility is decreasing around the world, and people haven't even realized yet especially those politicians.
By that context China has no need to go to war over Taiwan, because their survival as a nation does not depend on its existence or not.
@@Dana-cb7vk Taiwan is a strategic chokepoint, that makes Taiwan a threat regardless of CPC ideology.
@@matthewburrow3089 still an ideological threat to China's communist party.. having a more democratic idea of China exists near P.R.China is a threat to China's communist party power.
知己知彼,百战不殆 -- Know yourself and the enemy， not be passive of a hundred battles
This channel is very different and truly stands out on presentation and informative news.
Well done!
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Absolutely brilliant. This is probably one of the most well put together videos that I have found regarding China & the US.
It is inevitable both will clash, but hopefully it never goes beyond basic competition & only for the best of all of mankind.
12:23 the united states is trying to turn india against china this time so china will collapse like the soviet union
Throughout Chinese history, the military is the army of the Dynasty in power.
It’s only very recent that the KMT(the party whom Sun Yet Sen founded and established the Republic of China) commanded and controlled the Nationalist Army even after retreating to island province of Taiwan. The nationalists army still bares the KMT logo! So the CPC control of the PLA is no different
愚不可及，鼠目寸光，歪曲历史。没有解放军和国军在阻挠日本侵略的历史，还有亚洲国家的稳定吗？力量取之于民，用之于民，而非权力者谋利工具，如果习近平不行，不用人民反他，内部的党派人士早就分裂了。
@@liuchengwang6882 嗨..道可道非常道…是非永远是从当事人的目观解读。1911-1949年民国做得好吗？非常的”民”但是内忧外患又如何？二战期间祖国实在无能为力但是我祖辈作为中国人他们从新加坡用钱寄钱支持祖国抗战，但是很多都牺牲和因为他们支持祖国而被杀害屠杀……有多少祖国和民国在台湾还记得在新加坡的-日本占领时期死难人民纪念碑呢……
@@alfredyap14 哥们你即便是华裔，但也不能代表老一辈爱中国，希望中国独立自主的心情。新加坡还没建国时，中国并没有去干涉和帮助，并不是无情而是本身无法干涉别国是否独立（新加坡想成为中国邦建国还是殖民地？弱小的中国哪敢干涉啊）。还有你又错了，我们几十年的历史书和教育里面明确说明了海外华侨的无私帮助和爱国情怀--深刻在每一代中国人学生心里，我本人就是初中走到硕士都有这方面的教育。为啥中国最近面对灾难都无私帮助华侨撤离、为啥中国面对华侨都是叫”华侨同胞“，为啥中国相互平等的外交策略对待东南亚？不言而喻的结果啊。你原先就是要讽刺内部权力的滥用，但你无法确定共产党的权力是否滥用啊……
@@liuchengwang6882 王先生，有几点需要澄清：1） 您说： 新加坡还没建国时，中国并没有去干涉和帮助，并不是无情而是本身无法干涉别国是否独立
A：这我们认可和了解呀。
2） 您说：你原先就是要讽刺内部权力的滥用，但你无法确定共产党的权力是否滥用啊……
我没有讽刺的意思。我只是说明我们祖国历史上军队都是忠于党派和朝代，从来不是国的直接管辖而已。清朝的淮军，李鸿章的北洋军舰都不是清朝的-（虽然他们为清朝而战而亡）。连八旗也是如此啊。。。。所以我只是说明不管是国民党军还是解放军都是在党的控制和指挥啊。。。是现实没有讽刺的意思。
关于权力是否滥用。。。我无法评论。我不知道也无法说个对错。您说得对我毕竟是华裔国籍是以独立和建国后的新加坡人，也不方便。。。但是祖国今天的成就是有目共睹的。怎么坏也不会比1911-1949年一样吧？
@@liuchengwang6882 谢谢陈清祖国还记得我们祖辈以往的爱国情怀。我误解，也认错。谢谢
5:45 Dr Sun Yet Sun died from liver, not stomach, cancer.
do u guys know the 9 dash line is inheritage from 11 dash line which claim by ROC(which rule taiwan now) under United State of America navy's help?
It's very sad that US politicians in particular seem to think that the only way they can compete with China is by attempting to slow them down economically - through sanctions or through bullying them militarily.
When it is blatantly clear that neither tactic will solve the underlying problem in the long term.
If one considers that the majority of countries in the world have benefitted enormously over the past twenty five years from the rise in China's manufacturing and engineering efficiency and prowess. In that time the rest of the world were all too happy to leave it up to China (and Taiwan). And Western countries and corporations in particular made trillions from these mutually beneficial trade relations.
And now having woken from a deep gluttonous sleep Western nations in particular have realized just how dependent they've become on China - and the economic threat this poses. Deep down they all are aware the threat is self inflicted - brought on by limited long term strategic thinking and planning. So whose fault is that? Mass consumerism and greed - a lack of vision and or wisdom?
There is an alternative to political and military conflict - It's called cooperation and power sharing.
There is a much bigger and existential threat looming on the horizon - and it affects every human being on the planet - it does not respect national boundaries or economic imperatives and it will force cooperation - the global all encompassing threat of climate change and extreme volatility.
So maybe we should accept we are going to be forced to cooperate weather (sic) we like it or not - and work the problem together. Perhaps in doing this we might also get to know each other a little better and increase the chance of the human race surviving the next hundred years.
Its worst then that...there are american who believe...it is better to fight them now..then later...and those who want a Ukraine style war with Taiwan..to weaken China's development ! Fortunately..Taiwanese are not all stupid !
China 🇨🇳 has every right to develop and strengthen as China 🇨🇳 likes or wants or needs.
And the united States has every right to counter that increasing threat
Tremendous insight and profound knowledge ❤
It's a small thing, but the map is wrong at 19:50
Thailand is placed where Myanmar should be
That is an excellent catch. Thank you for pointing it out. We will fix it in our future productions.
China does not have an 'antagonistic view' towards the rest of the world, not now and not historically. Overwhelmingly, China was an insular power that left most of the world alone except for trade.
Wrong. China quite literally bullies all of their neighbors. India, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Taiwan and others all have to deal with Chinese aggression. Just today, the Chinese launched missiles over Taiwan and into Japanese territory. There is a reason most of China’s neighbors dislike them.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Wrong. Look at the world map. The vast majority of countries neighbouring China and the vast majority of countries in the world all have friendly relations with China. I don't have time to name all the countries in the world that have friendly relations with China, so I'll just focus on the countries neighbouring China.
Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Iraq including Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, The Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, North Korea, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu all have indisputably friendly relations with China even though they are neighbours of China.
Additionally, Vietnam and The Philippines have actually had relations improve with China to such an extent that they are no longer considered reliable American allies against China. And just recently, even the new 'hard on China' South Korean president totally snubbed Pelosi's visit.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Since you specifically mentioned Vietnam, let me remind you that China was the country that helped Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh/Vietcong fight for independence, first from the imperialist French and then from the Americans in the Vietnam War. And while China and Vietnam fought briefly after the Vietnam War due to the Sino-Soviet Split when China became allied with America, relations since the 1990s have normalized and keeps trending upward between China and Vietnam. Vietnam's political leadership even flew to China to help normalize relations and now both countries share strong economic ties. China even ceded a part of their 11-dash line in favour of Vietnam. Moreover, the remaining South China Sea disputed regions are disputed between numerous countries including the Republic of China in Taiwan, not just mainland China,
and the dispute is overwhelmingly peaceful and petty.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Since you specifically mentioned India, let me remind you that India is another great power with some conflicts of their own and also much friendly relations overall. China and India don't hate each other; they view each other suspiciously but they still maintain cordial relations and strong economic relations. The vast majority of tensions between the two countries stems from a few border disputes. Before these were an issue, China and India under Mao and Nehru and Jinnah were extremely friendly with each other, much like how China and Pakistan and Bangladesh continue to be very friendly. Let me also remind you that India has recently increased its support of the BRICS and SCO groups as a result of western condemnation of India's refusal to condemn Russia.
@@XxTheGreatDestroyerx Since you specifically mentioned Japan, let me remind you that Japan and China actually have very strong economic relations with each other, and Japan was actually among the first countries to invest in modern China. The reason there is some conflict is because Japanese politicians including the late Shinzo Abe and his Nippon Kaigi faction frequently venerated World War 2 war criminals who committed very similar crimes as the N*zis in Europe. Also, Japan is effectively a big military base for America, especially the historically independent Ryukyuan/Okinawan nation (that had very friendly relations with China) that was forcibly annexed by Japan and then occupied by an American military base.
There is a conceptual misunderstanding here. The CPC in China is totally different from American Bipartisan, this party is not the other parties. In the US and the western countries, party comes from part, it only represents part of people, it doesn't represent the whole American citizens, the parties were formed after the establishment of the country. The CPC was formed before the PRC was established, and it is the CPC founded the PRC. The CPC is not dominated by interest groups. National policy is not swayed by lobbyists of interest groups. The CPC represents the majority of Chinese citizens. While the American Bipartisan only represents the minority of the interest groups, of the 1%, for the 1%, by the 1%.
Two challenges:
If there are no interest groups in the CCP how come there are both Princelings, purges, disappearances and factions challenging Xi? And Mao? And Deng? And Zemin?
Second your last sentence is made up glib about a context you do not understand. It's ok to not understand. We don't understand all we need to about China. Let's not let arrogance get in our way.
@@willaimoconnell9430 Even if we dont understand China, we still know genocide and many other things arent right. Blocking ypur people from the internet says alot
Ah, a Wang.
@@willaimoconnell9430 The last sentence is not made up by me, it's by American people! I will not argue with you about that. It's a too long political topic. I suggest you to read political decay theory described by Samuel P. Huntington in Political Order in Changing Societies, and distributional coalitions theory described by Mançur Lloyd Olson Jr. in The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. I just want to point out your ignorance about China and the CPC. There is no Princelings in the CPC at all! If you really did research about CPC organizational hierarchy, you would know that there is no Princelings in the CPC at all. All around 350 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China came from hierarchical bottom election combined with selection step by step. There is no jumping step at all. Only 3 of them that amount couldn't be counted as princelings came from the family background which met the standard. During their political career, they can not quit, otherwise it means they are disqualified forever. There is no revolving door between Government officials and large private corporate executives. Any so called princelings if they are not currently in CPC organizational hierarchy, they will never be able to enter into this system and become a member of Central Committee of the Communist Party at all within 30 years.
@@johnmagee2245 Genocide? Are you talking about genocide in America? Native American Indian population decreased from 5 million to the lowest 237 thousand in 1900 by means of rewarded massacre and sterilization(over 42% of American Indian women of childbearing age are sterilized in 1970s), etc. Or are you talking about Chinese Uyghur population from 4.3334 million in 1949 to 14.93 million in 2020, 344.58% increase rate just in short 71 years(while the general Chinese population increase rate during this period is only 260%)? There is internet censorship in China but not internet isolation. Chinese people know the world, even America, better than American people know China even though the United States is so-called the country with the freest Internet. Internet censorship in China is a way to filter out the arrogant and malicious disgusting narrative of Western and America, not the basic information and truth of the world, just like the parent control is protecting children from adult content. Chinese people know everything happened in the United States and the World.
Every year, there are 120 million Chinese leave China freely as tourists, they are free to contact global internet content without censorship. Amazingly, 120 million Chinese return to China freely. Now if China was Communist Gulag Stalinist state, would you go back to China? And so there's complete misunderstanding about China. Clearly even though while the political freedoms in China haven't increased enough, the personal freedoms of Chinese people have exploded.
The commentators are informed, knowledgeable, objective, and true experts in Chinese military. They are also aware of the Chinese history and people's mindset.. Very enlightening!
你强调解放军是党的军队，而不是国家的军队。受习近平一人调动。
你们的军队是国家的军队，调动受多方制约。
那么好笑的是，中国这只所谓可以做任何习近平想做的事的军队，近现代没有对哪个国家动用武力。
而你们人民的军队，国家的军队。每隔几年就要侵略别的国家。你们的意思是美国政府不是凶手，而每个美国人都是凶手？
这个逻辑没错吧？
You emphasise that the PLA is the party's army, not the country's. It is mobilised by Xi Jinping alone.
Your army is the army of the country and its mobilisation is subject to multiple constraints.
It is funny that the China's army, which so called can do whatever Xi Jinping wants to do, has not used force against any country in recent modern times.
And your people's army, the army of the state. Every few years you have to invade another country. You mean the US government is not a murderer but every American is a murderer?
Is this the right logic?
If only everything about China was well researched like this
The president of China XI got his civil engineering degree from Ohio University. So yeah US politicians needs to be adequately understanding China instead of talking nonsense all the time.
Wait.....Nothing about Korean War? I couldn't believe this and watched the clip again. LOL. For the US military, there is just no way to understand Chinese military without looking long and hard at Korean War 1950~1953, when the PLA had the largest gap behind the US military might.
I am from South Korea and I must admit that you guys fought well against the superpower, it was truly amazing. But we have been brainwashed since childhood to believe that the Chinese used human wave tactics, totally ridiculous !
@@x-creator4460 What was amazing? The US was outnumbered 4 to 1 and still managed to inflict 15 times more casualties on the Chinese than the Chinese/NK did to the US. Also, consider the fact China borders Korea directly, the US had to transport it forces 6,000 miles away to fight the war. And don't forget the fact that just 10 years earlier, the US had one of the smallest armies in the world, smaller than Portugal's! The fact the US went front almost nothing to the world's most powerful military in 5-6 years is pretty remarkable. Be thankful the US military were able to stop the Chinese or else you would be living under Kim Jong-un right now.
@@sleepnaught outnumbered? US had 480 thousand and Chinese had 700. US had united nations troops and South Koreans.. so just stop reading one side numbers.
@@rs-dp6pr Don't know where you get your numbers from...
US peak strength in the Korean War was about 326,000. China's was nearly 1.5 million.
South Korea had roughly 600,000 peak strength, rest of the UN forces totaled less than 40,000 and were token forces at best. China + North Korean strength was more than twice that of the UN forces.
@@sleepnaughtchina only had 300,000 volunteers and zero airforce
Excellent in depth analysis and presentation without bias!
Is it?
@@KVX21 considering that this is made for/by the US military, it's quite unbiased
No one can win a high tech war between top tier militaries. The reasons are many, first we live in a nuclear weapons age. That goes beyond strategic weapons, nukes can be used across the full kill chain. Second, 1940s primitive weapons killed 60 million people, so imagine combat capabilities 25 to 50 times that. Third, wars aren't fought in a vacuum turn off the communications grid above the Earth and below the sea. Then the power grid, you have an EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT. MAD, extends beyond nuclear weapons. Don't listen to all that Pentagon speak, they are insane. Pour as much money down that rat hole and you get nowhere fast.
看完了，除了对共产党的刻板印象外，内容还算勉强客观，唯一不变的是昂撒人一如既往的傲慢
Of course, these are the alarmist who want the US to put more into the military.
It is by far very objective. You just think cause it doesn’t kiss the behind of your country that it’s not objective. You guys keep telling yourselves that we have you guys c19 back in 2020 when literally 8 billion minus the 1.4 in your country know it came from china.
@Isang Katotohanan 美国连堕胎权都没有你还好意思谈言论自由？。
@Isang Katotohanan 呵呵，“仅在”。
@Isang Katotohanan 光反对有什么用？可以有意义批评，你要是想推翻，肯定要被禁言。
AUP has done an excellent job with this presentation.
The minimum is to stay clear of Taiwan and south China seas…
You know the best defence is to stop intimidating China and treat her as an equal.
@@feydrautha012 that earth and human civilisation is over and it doesn’t matter who is the polar bear. Everyone has turned to dust…
How many wars did US starts in last 40 years?
This is a real piece of strategic thinking instead of propoganda everywhere else.
Great video. But most folks seem to think that. Need more (and we need one from the Navy and the Air Force).
19:58 are you insane? Why did you place Thailand name on Myanmar?
‘To subdue the enemy without fighting is the Acme skill in the art of war” Sun Tzu.
Excellent, analysis and presentation without bias and laying the truth. 🇺🇸
The concluding remarks redeemed this video. This cannot be about conflict and confrontation and hegemony. This must be about diplomacy and negotiations and respect between (near) peers.
It's just impossible.
China wants to overtake the USA e dictate the future world.
It's not a fair opponent, it's a sneaky enemy
@@VanZibarX When in history has China ever wanted to dictate the world?
@@unifieddynasty Now
@@VanZibarX Example?
@@unifieddynasty China is aiming to rule the world
It's not a secret
Every speech of the Leader of the Communist Party regards to become the greatest and biggest nation in the world, translated: to achieve the supremacy in the world.
Everything that she's doing is to put herself on the leading of the world for the next century.
It's a threat for the entire global stability and security
Good video, the only defect of the video is that Mao's military achievements are underestimated. Mao is actually the most genius military strategist in Chinese history.
🤣 Lin Biao and Peng Dehuai would laugh at this comment. You clearly don’t understand the concept of “military strategy.” Just because Mao purged and killed the great generals, it doesn’t make him a military strategist.
@@JP-eh7wm I thought Su Yu was the best.
They are better in tactics, not strategy. 我的英语没有你好，但是你的回答完全体现了你对历史的无知，可能是被法轮功洗脑洗多了了吧。
@@xiaogangdasha 粟裕大将的确非常了不起。但是没有最高统帅的运筹帷幄，是打不赢解放战争的。在重要时刻让下面来做决定也是大智慧。看看对岸的微操大师。
Genius is too powerful a word when assessed against other great figures in Chinese history, or to the other generals under Mao. But this documentary definitely seems to downplay Mao too much.
A very sober examination. Dr. Geoff Babb seems like a very knowledgeable professor.
There is a glaring error in the assessment of the technological development of the Chinese military: it's accelerating not plateauing in the recent years. Look no further than the Zhuhai Air Show 2022, do those new hardware (albeit for export only) mushroomed in every military field look like from a technologically plateauing force?
When we try to analyse an alien culture, we unconsciously think "If I were them what would I do?" Then we look for proofs to match the pattern in our minds. Everybody inevitably does so. The speakers are clearly doing do.
A nice talking about China military and so on 👏👏👍👍
you know, the us (or the united nations force at the time) fought against china back in 1950s. this should be an ESENTIAL point of reference, in terms of attempting to (truly) understand pla. theres no mention whatsoever in this video. you are unfortunately NOT serious about so called "near peer" . is you are not, you will pay the price.
I haven't finished watching found a mistake.
The nine-dashed line is not created by Xi. The Republic of China(KMT or Taiwan now) claim the 11-dashed line. Later, Mao thought it was too overbearing and reduced it to the nine-dashed line. It's just that the military strength in that time was too weak so in the past, claiming is just claiming.
THIS IS ONE OF THE PRACTICAL BASE ANALYSIS I EVER WATCHED
With due respect, your speakers have given a twist to the true causes that have given rise to the type of Chinese response, e.g. you had mentioned the Chinese buit the artificial Islands; but, the speaker failed to mention the fact that it was the Philippine and the other smaller nations started building artificial islands in the first place,; but, not China!
There are other facts which the preseners failed to address in proper context! ( e.g. Tsung Kuo, the speaker interpreted as center,which was confusing- how should the audience understand by that? These are just a few examples!
If you know PLA's history from founding till end of Korean War, you will know they re-define the honour and glory of Chinese military and even whole country's confidence and fighting spirit - which was lacking for more than 100+ years before that.
there are no PAP in HK, only PLA are deployed in HK, the video show is the HK police not PAP. PAP generally use gear taken from the army reserve, in fact they are created from the reserve and given a separate command structure as part of the reform to take non-combat mission away from the military so the military can be more mission focused. they serve mostly as security for government institution and border control as such they do not have specialised firearm. in the video, you can clearly see the police are carrying western style firearm and riot gear.
PAP would have 武警 on their uniform vs Police that would say 警察. these are the tell tale sign of whether they belong to the military devived PAP or the standard Police force.
Didn’t expect a history documentary when I clicked in😅