I love the plaid shirted military analyst, Ni LeXiong's, commentary on the reasons for the PRC's nuclear arsenal expansion. He is, of course, completely correct: Russia has fared poorly in the battlefield but where would it be if it didn't have the world's largest nuclear arsenal? The arsenal alone is the reason why the US keeps having to slap Ukraine on the wrist for its occasional drone strikes in Russia and why the US won't give Ukraine long range missiles or permit it to attack Russian territory. Correction: it is not only Russia's arsenal but its willingness to engage in threatening talk and maneuvers with its nukes, just like the US does. China's no-first-strike rule makes it less threatening.

For the last two thousand years, China has been cultivating the character of facing dangerous stormy attacks from invading/colonizing barbarians. Therefore, it is not a new character but a well habituated character.

The army is the guarantor of a country's security

The strongest army on this planet

I honestly believed that the amount spent by China in military spending vs the US, is more comprehensive and focus oriented. The PLA doesn't have hundreds of military bases all over the world hence the savings. And the amount of kickbacks in the US military contractors / suppliers is bloating up the US spending. Next, the focus of hypersonic missiles in both PLA and the Russian army would render aircraft carriers obsolete. Thank you, CNA, for the awesome vids. May 2023.

Here is the English translation: As a Chinese, I can clearly tell the world that the criteria to judge whether the ruling party and leader of a country are good or bad are firstly, whether they can protect the safety of citizens both domestically and overseas, and secondly, whether their policies can effectively improve the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of common people. Our ruling party may not be perfect, but they have been working hard and striving. As the population of the largest country in the world, being able to lift over 800 million people out of poverty and hardship, instead of through launching wars and plundering foreign countries, is already an amazing achievement. We are rising peacefully, benefiting domestic people and also providing the whole world with quality inexpensive goods. Over 90% of our ethnic group is Han, but we never oppress or exploit the 10% ethnic minorities. On the contrary, ethnic minorities in China receive more support from the state. We are not jealous or envious, because they are also Chinese, only of different ethnicities. We Chinese people love our country, and love our Party even more, because they have led the formerly 400 million compatriots to gradually move from poverty to a well-off life step by step. Our Party may still have this or that problem, but looking from history, they have always been leading us to move forward instead of backward. Therefore, we will be tolerant and trusting of it.

Mr. Denny Roy: "Chinese wants to be a military power. She is not satisfied to be just a economic power...." Let me educate Mr. Roy on that point. Chinese did try to be a economic power without military power. It is called the Qing Dynasty. We all know what happened. China learned the lesson well.

The proliferation of weapons is never a good thing and yet unavoidable. When you look at the number of countries the US has destabilised and invaded in the past century, it’s not hard to see why anyone would want to be able to deter or repel an invasion.

As a Chinese, it is the Communist Party that leads the people of the whole country to break free from colonialism, move towards independence and development, and transform from a weak country into the world's second largest economy. No one can separate the CPC from the Chinese people. The Party represents the interests of all Chinese people. We also support the CPC.

A modern army that guards peace as strong as any, even the enemy will respect them !

@ 7:19 The PLA Navy has come a long way in a short time and the Chinese have every reason to be proud of what has been accomplished. Yet I must point out that by ship tonnage the US Navy is still twice the size of the PLA Navy. The US Navy has 11 fully operation nuclear powered super carriers operating cutting edge F-35C fifth generation fighters. The US Navy has well over a century of experience using aircraft carriers. This includes the only large scale carrier battles in history where the US Navy fought and roundly defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1941-1945. The US Navy has more fast attack submarines, a type of nuclear powered vessel that appeared first in the US Navy (in 1954). The PLA Navy still has a ways to go to catch up to the US Navy.

32:21 Well... it IS a province of China. Even the ROC themselves saw and see Taiwan as a part of China. Both the ROC and the PRC still officially (constitutionally) claim mainland China and the Taiwan Area as part of their respective territories. So it's a bit weird to see an US guy claim it's unfortunate the PLA defined Taiwan as part of China, while Taiwan itself defines itself as part as China. The only difference being, the ROC considers mainland China to be theirs, while the PLA considers Taiwan to be theirs. But basically, BOTH parties consider themselves part of China.

During the start of the Ukraine war Turkey invoked a 1936 agreement and warned all countries not to send warships through the Dardanelles and straits of Bosporus. The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits regulates passage of ships through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles under both peacetime and war. We should have something similar in this region as well that allows complete freedom of navigation for commercial shipping during both peacetime and war but prevents foreign warships from transiting thru these waters during war time situations.

To build a reliable and powerful army to protect country-specific interests are always first priority! This is “always right “ policy….

A good metric to understand a nation's military aims, and actual foreign posture is to ask their immediate neighbors. It's easy to be positive about a country thousands of miles away, but when it lies on your doorstep and you have to deal with them every day...well, it's hard to hide your real feelings. 😉

Recruitment of graduates into PLA can only suggest that defense in the coming years will be extremely high-tech.

28:36 he hits the core. People's Liberation Army is a party body instead of belonging to the state. The leaders of which were first elected within the party and then ceremoniously the state. or else it would be called Chinese national defense force.

Maybe it will be more impactful if he mentioned the victory of the PVA vs the US(or UN) in 1950 instead of the the CPC victory against the KMT. The gap in weaponary is on a totally different level.

I love watching this type of documentary, Very well done😮

Perfect documentary, that is just how a documentary should be, well balanced.

Nobody can fight wars and win with just mass of well-dressed soldiers and vast weaponry. The crux lies in the heart of every soldier, the reason to fight and to sacrifice for his people and country (not the political party). Modern history has shown that ill-equipped soldiers have defeated much larger and stronger forces---Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. Basic force is "will to fight and reason to sacrifice". This is where such doll-like armies lose terribly.

China‘s military budget is pretty reasonable. Especially comparing to sociaty basic spending and so on.

great documentary!

And for the longest time Russia's armed forces were rated #2... 🧻🐅(20:45) What some analysts fail to realize is that experience, culture, and leadership are just as important as technology is to warfighting. 🎓 4:22 Yeah, those contradict each other. Officers empowered to take independent action within their area of responsibility is how you conduct battle effectively.🔀 9:25 To put this into perspective, the USS Gerald R. Ford with its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System launched in 2013. 🗓 17:34 A combat roll?! Are you filming an action movie or are you doing military training? ↩ 43:50 China's idea of how to defuse international tensions is to weaken ways of doing so. Makes sense. 🔥

In ancient Chinese military strategy book Si Ma Fa (《司馬法》The Marshal's Art of War, Chapter: Reng Ben 《仁本》 ), it was written,“A powerful country that loves to go to war will eventually perish, but even though the world is in peace, a country that forgets how to go to war will be endangered" 《司馬法》之《仁本》篇寫道，“國雖大，好戰必亡；天下雖安，忘戰必危”。

I believe it was LKY who once said a nation’s defence or military ability must equal to its economic strength. In that sense, I think China is trying to do just that. My fear though is the newly acquired strength is used for projection rather than deterrence.

Wow.. I’m floored that Pearl Forss could speak such excellent Chinese.. excellent documentary by her and the CNA team.

No doubt they are already a superpower. Love from iran.

The fact that the PLA hasn't fought in 40 years means nothing. Back in the day in 1871 the french army was arguably the most experienced along with the british army because they have fought all over the world for 100 of years. And they faced the Prussian army which is only fought once against the Austrians. And look what happened. The Prussian army won so easily that it shook the world.

The West (US and NATO) is concerned about the rise of the once backward PLA because they always wanted to maintain the leading role as the sole military power. With this power and the US dollar hegemony they can dictate their own terms and force developing countries to obey their rules. It is just a continuation of the days when the European Colonizers rampaged through Asia and Africa, colonizing any country at will. Although the WWII ended all this but sadly it had changed from a Euro-centric world to an American-centric one where Asian and African countries are still being "colonized" in a new form. It was only until the start of the Ukraine, did China responded meaningfully and successfully against the US hegemony despite being burdened with numerous sanctions against its companies ( exports and imports ) and key personnel.....

I very much agree with what zhou said at 27:57 if you have a purpose and know what you’re fighting for it makes you more powerful and brave. Look at Ukraine everyone thought Russian armed forces would have conquered the country within a couple days. That being said the javelins, mlaws and man pads definitely sent by uk and us helped Ukraine significantly obviously.

finally a quite good documentary once again from CNA. Thanks for that.

One thing humanity is particularly good at; is not learning from past historical mistakes...

Question: What makes a country a "superpower"? Answer : ECONOMIC MIGHT and MILITARY MIGHT These are the two necessary elements that make a country a superpower .

China's population - 4x that of the US (1.4b vs 334m) China's defense spending budget - 1/3 that of the US (US$225b vs US$886b in 2023) 6.47. Denny Roy: "The heavy investment in the PLA, especially in recent years, confirms the idea that China sees having a strong military as essential to China achieving its national goals, its aspirations. That is, China is not interested in being merely an economic superpower." Does anyone else see a huge, red herring here?

Boa tarde a todos os guerreiros e guerreiras do CNA insiders.

The US Government wants that (as is depicted by the fellow in a US think tank in this video) 'no matter how hard I push you, no matter how bad I made our bilateral relationship to be, you are not to confront me with your fists up'.

Superb documentary, Thanks!

Excellent documentary !!!

Maps published by other countries that label the South China Sea islands as Chinese territory include: The "World Atlas" published by Federal Republic of Germany in 1954, 1961, and 1970; The "World Atlas" published by the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1967; The "World Atlas" published by Romania in 1957; The "Oxford Australian Atlas," "Philips' Atlas," and "The Times Atlas of the World," all published by the United Kingdom in 1957 and 1958; The "World Atlas" compiled by the Vietnamese People's Army General Staff Mapping Department in 1960; The "Harkort World Atlas" published by the German Democratic Republic in 1968; The "Daily Telegraph Atlas of the World" published by the United Kingdom in 1968; The "Larousse Atlas" published by France in 1968 and 1969; The "General Map of the World" published by the French National Geographic Institute in 1968; The "World Atlas" printed by the Office of the Prime Minister's Department of Surveying and Mapping of Vietnam in 1972; The "Atlas of China" published by Japan's Heibonsha in 1973.

Well.. It's good to China built their military power, but it's very sad to saw China and India indulge in military tension free rho. Because India and China has relations in religious and some similarities in culture since from ancient time's especially between the Tamil culture and religious .. For example The ancient scholar Bodhi Dharma or in chines as Damo and Gautama siddartha Gautama Buddha...infact i saw there lots of Chinese people from China learn Tamil language and they also knew that this two ancient country's has related since thousands yrs back.. 🙏🏻

A balanced report as always from CNA, otherwise Singapore would be in deep trouble.

I wish we could all just get along. We have much to learn from each other. Violence only begets violence.

CNA is a neutral media that reports as it is.

So beautiful China country 🇨🇳

We can have the most sophisticated weapons but nothing can break the human spirit.

Taiwan is putting the entire SE Asian region in peril by continuing to side with outsiders who will only use the Taiwan naïveté for the West’s own colonial benefits! It’s scary and dangerous times, indeed.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Excellent documentary. People on both sides should see this and consider the alternatives that face this conundrum. China will continue to rise and it thinks it can achieve a developed state by peaceful means. The US feels China wants to dominate the world by replacing the US as hegemon of the world. This differing in thoughts are at the heart of the tensions between China and America. It is almost like two Christians from two different denominations arguing about who is more right but missing the big picture of common goals that should be there for all mankind. BTW, the US Congress has fallen in the same trap. Instead of focusing on common good and mutual alignment, Congress is a divided house with no end in sight.

Throughout the cold war, the Chinese People's Army used corpses of recently executed criminals to gauge the true impact of Chinese weapons systems on the human body. From hand grenades to cruise missiles, heavy artillery and even Banzai infantry charges. Even the original Chinese A-bomb Tests at Lop Nor.

Large number of ships give more targets, and not necessarily their manoeuvrability when there are bottle-necks. They may dance around their shores but what about in deep Pacific and Indian Oceans?

I like how Canada and Australia said Chinese Air Force is acting aggressively against their 😂military planes in South China Sea. Are they happy for the Chinese to go near their waters?

The biggest problem of humanity everywhere is government. Those in government power it ALWAYS goes to their head.

This is emphasized now, but Russia and China as often antagonistic neighbors in the past (they fought a short war over a river island on their land border in the 1960s). So Russia, who has neither the manpower or the ships (many of these are in the Black Sea blockading Ukraine, and many of these vessels are over 40 years old) is little use to China, in either sea, land or air support in the Pacific. The only use Russia is to China is an alternative petroleum supply (for where there is scant pipelines now into China), and food supplies, which are long and difficult to send by sea now and impossible in a world war (okay by land, but takes 30 to 50 freight train loads to one shipload). Russia is China's fair weather friend. Any falling out between Xi and Putin, and it goes back to hostile neutrality mode.

1/ 6:20 China's defense budget doesn't include the Coast Guard nor the healthcare expenses for active and former military, whereas the US' does. China's defense spending is a lot higher than what the numbers indicate. 2/ 8:50 You left out mentioning China bought the former Soviet aircraft carrier from Ukraine specifically. 3/ 10:18 The main reason why some Somali fishermen even resorted to piracy is because China and Kenya kept illegally fishing in Somalian and Yemeni waters and depleting it. The two along with other actors also dumped waste illegally in their waters, polluting it because they knew they could get away with it. 4/ 19:50 The war being vaguely referenced here is China's invasion of Vietnam in 1979 which it lost against a battered Vietnam which had been at war since the 1940s, first against France, then the US, then China-ally Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia, which Vietnam toppled in 1971 prompting the Chinese invasion.

16:50 It's unfair to mention tang ping without mentioning the economic hardship and career stagnation that engendered that movement

great documentary to understand China. More deterrence than aggressiveness. More defense within their territory than attack overseas territories far away

Xi has never said it will invade Taiwan. The west media twisted that. Xi said it doesn’t want to kill our own roots in such conflict. They’re expanding because of increased U.S. presence.

Ukraine is grateful to the United States for sending us to the battlefield. We in Ukraine are now very happy

中國加油！我愛我的國我的家

Well Done and quite informative.

I copied this post from a Taiwanese guy named Tigger Hanson ..... I was born in Taiwan and would like to share with you about the change of Taiwan in the last 15 years: During 2008 and 2016, people in Taiwan and China have been very friendly. The tourist industry and the trade benefitted Taiwan tremendously. Both sides shared a agreement (i.e., The 1992 Consensus) that people from both sides were Chinese even though they have different systems and they made the “One China” interpretations in their own ways (OCI). However, there is always a group of people in Taiwan refusing to admit that their ancestors were Chinese and they chose whatever ways to undermine the eventual unification of the China and Taiwan. In 2016, this group or Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the election by spreading the hatred of China and again in 2020 by exploiting the fear of Hong Kong's riot. The elected president tore up The 1992 Consensus and started cutting all ties with China including changing the official Chinese history books for students. After Trump was elected president, he accepted the congratulation phone call from Taiwan's president, which breaks the US-China tradition since 1979. For president Trump, Taiwan is the best dagger he can use to attack China. He increased the weapon sales to Taiwan along with the trade wars and tech wars against China. After the outbreak of COVID-19, Trump grew desperate and blamed China on spreading the virus as the main strategy of his re-election. He sent the high level officials from US to Taiwan to provoke China. For example, they cut off the mask supply to China in January 2020 and they refuse to bring the Taiwanese in Wuhan back to the island. They spread lies that WHO failed to heed warning from DPP and demanded the resignation of Tedros. They also require that anyone from China would have to be quarantined for 14 days even when the virus in Wuhan had been under control. The Taiwan president kept calling WuHan Virus to enrage her base just like Trump until the end of his presidency. And, DPP made no effort rejecting Trump's request to move TSMC's most advanced production to Arizona and ban semiconductor sales to Huawei. In case you don't know, TSMC is considered the silicon shield of Taiwan since it is a national treasure that China would not want to destroy. It is hard to blame the people in China that they felt betrayed since DPP used the huge trade surplus $150 Billion) with China to buy weapons from USA. In 2022, Pelosi as the 2nd person in the US presidential line of succession, provoked China again by visiting Taiwan. Washington's goal is to steal TSMC and Ukraine-ize Taiwan. And, China Hawks in Washington and Think Tanks would like Taiwanese to fight to the last person if the war breaks out. Taiwan's ruling party, DPP, is happy to play the anti-China card to hang on to its power by spreading lies to fool Taiwanese. For example, DPP, in late 2020, shut down a major TV station (CTI News equivalent to Fox or CNN in the USA) which supported the opposing party. And, the justice department is fully controlled by DPP. Taiwan is no longer a democratic country as US government and media are trying to paint such picture to fool American people and the world. The good news is that Taiwanese started to realize that USA is preparing to dump Taiwan as Trump/Biden forced TSMC to transfer their most advanced semi-conductor manufacturing technology to USA. Therefore, if the war breaks out, USA can afford sitting on the sideline. The war game simulation further revealed that Congress had no intention sending US troops to fight PLA. Let us pray that the Taiwanese people would wake up and throw out the DPP regime in the 2024 election. Then, Taiwan and the whole world will be much safer.

People say what they will about the CCP, but I am a big supporter of that "no first use" policy regarding nuclear weapons. Now if only we could get every other country in the world to follow the fine example China has set in this regard . . .

任何国家军人都是最受尊重的存在，待遇优厚是必然的。军人的荣誉就是保家卫国…消灭一切来犯之敌。

If their military program is anything like their quality of construction, the world will be fine.

This help me understand China better. I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zheng He came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China. -C L “Christopher Columbus didn’t discover anything, instead he just got lost” -Tasia Grzenia 💐

The "Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World," published in 1961, states that the Spratly Islands are "a Chinese territory in the South China Sea, part of Guangdong Province." The "World Book Encyclopedia," published in the United States in 1963, states: "The islands of the People's Republic of China also include islands and coral reefs in the South China Sea that extend as far as the 4th parallel north." The "Encyclopedia of the World's Regional Geography," published in 1971, states: "The People's Republic includes several archipelagos, the largest of which is Hainan Island, near the south coast. Other archipelagos include some reefs and archipelagos in the South China Sea, extending as far as the 4th parallel north. These reefs and archipelagos include the Pratas Island, the Paracel Islands, Zhongsha Islands, and the Spratly Islands."

What floors me the most about this documentary is how much Xi is interested in the youth and their success, like the father I never had. Hard work is rewarded. Nothing like my American experience. Here in USA hard working young people are just blood meal for the ancient vampires running this country. Success is more determined by wealth and connections at birth than any action we might take. There is zero shared interest, no central planning goes into education. I was a naive young man. I thought my success was linked to my nation when I went to university. Graduated 07 and have never had a job that required the degree. It turns out default on student debt is a desirable thing for USA since it’s “profitable” when people can’t pay back and are trapped as debt slaves for life.

when one has problems at home, one focuses outside one's home....

PEACE LOVE and ECONOMIC PROSPERITY for all Nations ! the woRLD flows BETTER Together!!!!

Practice is only practice. Experience of actual naval warfare with lessons learnt is invaluable. Perhaps worth keeping in mind?

We are living in a very dangerous world.

If you don't have a volunteer army, you have a weakness. People have to want to make things happen

I saw these brave soldiers standing against a water flood with thier bodies to save thier citizens. It made me cry like a baby for their heart to protect their and serve. It changed my entire mind about the massive amount of misinformation we get in westeren media concerning China. I was so intrigued and moved I went to see what really is going on in China. I must say it was shocking to see how orderly and concerned the leadership is about their citizens. On every level it's personal responsibility for them. They also have engulfed them in a fantasyland On so many different levels China is so advanced. I really wish we could have honest people in the western world that are trying to be more like China. To its people and advancing the world around us at large. In the middle of chaos it's westerners that's a fact. But China found peace

" if you do not want the water to boil, why would you throw wood into the fire?" Ah...yes...china did not use wood, they only threw a couple artificial military islands into the area. His naive, victim face as he talked was priceless.

Excellent program. Thank you CNA. Well done.

Actually China may spend smaller amount but their weapons may be on par with US because US inflate their cost.

Excellent documentary! Thanks CNA!

The development of the Marine lifeline must depend on the navy. The CCP is even more aware of this, especially after the interception of the merchant ship Yinhe by the US military.

I am indian army ❤

That military official of US made some interesting explanations on the relationship between the PLA, the party and the people. It is actually quite fun to see the potential enemies of pla being so ignorant them😂.

The perception is that Russia has fared poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine. However, military experts agree that this perception is driven mostly by the English speaking media. Russia has pulled Ukraine into attrition because the Russian command wants the war to outlast all western military aid to Ukraine. Its working. However, the only thing that is preventing NATO boots on the ground is Russia's nuclear arsenal. Thus, it makes nuclear deterrence desirable when a nation with vast resources like China wants to invade Taiwan but doesn't want the world to come knocking on its doorstep trying to stop it.

Only when you are strong and ready, in military preparedness, no one will cross red lines or cross path with you.

It’s not the party put itself in a situation that it has to reunify with Taiwan, it is the reflection of the Chinese people will to reunify their country.

解放军永远不能忽视勇气和体能，不论武器多么先进，最后每一个冷静勇敢果断的军人才是关键，不论是提枪上阵还是操控远程设备

China may have amassed a big military manpower and equipment. The question now are: effectiveness of soldiers and equipment, battle tested soldiers and equipment, use of military in times of war. If anyone can say that they are all around 80% positive then China should be ready.

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US must increase more Army and high tech arsenal before too late..

Navy size is measured in tonnage not number of ships. Coastguard boats are not equal to aircraft carriers

Say what you may but I believe the Chinese military is not upgrading and expanding fast enough. I would double my efforts if I had a country that has gone to war with nearly every other nation on this earth either openly or covertly threatening me directly again and again. Especially when that country has no other means of maintaining its current global hegemony on account of how its own country is rapidly falling apart and its population decaying from inside.

great video, good job for CNA making this neutual discussion

Excellent unbiased documentary. Thanks!

In short - I believe only in one thing. ' Balance of Powers ' There must be a balance of powers in this world for the world to be able to operate relatively in peace especially for the superpower countries. The problem is, the world isn't operates without weapons. If it is without weapons then it will certainly in peace. Furthermore, no one country can ensure what is in the mind of these country. What weapons would they advance to, their characters, heart, attitudes, ambitions, etc. All these enbolden a country. Weaponisation with ambitions means the risk are always there for conflicts. China emerges during a period on which in it surrounding are powerful nations Economically & militarily & also somehow hostile in nature. In order to achieve balance of power for peaceful purpose as a deterent of sort ( since we can't do away without weapons either). It is advisable for China to make a mandatory for students at age of say 18 to 20 years old to go for compulsory National Military Program/Service for 2 years & to compensate with extention in their retirements age by 2 years. So called be ready for peaceful purposes. Considering China's borderlines are so long. Besides, due to huge population, in any attrition war, internal chaotic, uprisings, strikes, demonstration in any cities are common will naturally bode down a country & may breakup as well. During war, a country doesn't have time to attend to any others things. Invaders would then takes advantages, they may not interest in whole China but only certain part by supplying weapons & they just simply become universal robot soldiers for others & they've plenty of foods & unlike others part. So, to maintain internal peace & stability, the extra two millions or so experienced through military program students would be very helpful & may actually save a country. In this case, overcoming internal storms during war times. ( if uprising occurs only in 1 city, it may be alright but if it happens in 30 or 50 cities then the country is gone ). However, the best of all to achieve peace for the world through balance of power is every countries to do away with ' Defence Department ' . Maintaining only a small forces to handle any rascals matters. For better world Bang broadcast corp

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China is the largest trading nation in the world. It is the largest Economy in the world in PPP terms...and likely to be the largest by 2027 in nominal terms. Why is it wrong for the largest economy to have a Military befitting its economic size...or should it still have the military capability of Rwanda..? to be called a Peacefull Country.. China only allocates less than 1.7 % of its GDP to Defense ..less than US 3.4%,India 2.6 % and even Singapore at 3%. The US has chilled NATO countries for spending not enough on their defence and has targetted NATO countries to allocate 2% of their GDP for defence. If this is so ,China in REALITY IS UNDERALLOCATING FUNDS FOR ITS DEFENSE... China has not Fought a Single War or Arm Conflict for the last 45 years and is called a potential war instigator..by the West and its Allies..whereas US and its Allies has been involve in not less than 30?40?Wars...bombings,regime change..etc etc ..in the same 45 years...has a Free Pass... It sure cannot be logical and somehow the West( Superiority complex ?) depict that China ( for the matter of fact India, Indonesia etc ) are not entittle to have the largest military in the world to correspond to its land size,its population,its industrial might,Economy and Trading Scale... If you are the world largest Economy ..why cant you also have the world largest military..to protect your interest? All Superpowers Are Bullies to a certain degree from the Romans to the Spanish ,French ,German ,British, Japan, and US.. But the biggest and scariest difference today is that Superpowers can end the Human specie unilaterally....so lets not provoke and "add wood to the Fire" . We must recognize MULTIPOLARITY and the back and front yard concept for Each superpower ....or we all end up with no YARD.. This is the only Approach for the world to last a few more peacefull generations..before we annihiliate each other..

Thank you for a fairly objective portrayal of the Chinese. However there are a number of inaccuracies. 31:00 First time that I have heard of this claim. What are her sources? It is well known there were dummy warheads. 32:00 This is false. This expert is not aware of one country two systems. In the case for Taiwan, the details are not yet negotiated.

Good unbiased documentary by CNA.

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China should build more ships so that she could gain better experience in faster and more efficient production methodology as the newly developed economies will have to equip themselves once they can afford to have better equipped armies! By then, China may have to be able to produce say a dozen destroyers at one go! or a dozen submarines ....

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