How China's Military Views the United States

China plans the world's largest dam in Tibet. The dam will have three times as much power generation as Three Gorges Dam. At $137 billion, it will be the most expensive infrastructure project in world history. It does trash a sacred river in Tibet, which should help secure the support of the locals. No word on whether this helps China steal water that is headed to India or some other undeserving country, which might start WWIII. I'm hearing that China will allocate enough electricity to Tibet to allow local Tibetans to light their homes with two 25W light bulbs instead of one.

China plans world’s largest dam, will generate 300 billion kWh of power yearly

 

China has been using an underwater drone to snoop in Philippine waters. Fishermen captured the 6'-long drone.

Suspected Chinese underwater spy drone found by fishermen

 

Chinese government hackers breached U.S. Treasury Dept. computer systems in a "major incident".

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/investing/china-hackers-treasury-workstations/index.html

 

China's economy is so hopeless that the citizens have gone beyond Depression-era behavior. They are not willing to spend even small amounts of money going to the movies to escape their horrible economy. They refuse any and all attempts to cheer them up. China's box office receipts dropped by 23% compared to a 3% drop in the U.S. last year.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/02/business/china-box-office-2024-economy-intl-hnk/index.html

 

It had to be really bad if the people in Brazil could recognize it as squalid conditions.

 

China continues to build its world-class fleet of destroyers for the navy. The destroyers are large enough and carry enough missiles and weapons that the U.S. Navy considers them to be cruisers. The U.S. Navy destroyers and cruisers are no match for the Chinese Type 055 ships. The U.S. is actually mothballing its cruisers and not building any more. I have to congratulate China's navy; they are more ready for WWII than I ever thought possible. Sadly for them, it is unlikely that destroyers and cruisers will ever go toe-to-toe with another country's ships again in close-quarters combat. Under the current state of technology, undetectable aircraft like the F-35 will sink each ship with 1-2 missiles. Their only chance will be to use search drones to try to identify the exact location of U.S. ships and get close enough to launch missiles and hope the ships don't move or shoot down the missiles (the U.S. could also try to use this strategy). The U.S. fleet will have to stay away from the coast of places where China could launch planes or missiles from. China's island bases would be an early target, just like Guam would be. Satellites would also be targeted, and might not be available after the first day or two.

The primary functions of a surface ship is to defend an aircraft carrier, hunt submarines, or launch missiles at another ship or ground target. Seems like smaller ships (destroyers) would be more economical and generally just as useful as larger ones for for the first two requirements.

US vs. Chinese cruisers: China is building its top surface warship at breakneck speed, and it's a match for its US rival

 

Ni hao ma?

 

China may have learned from Russia that it can use a commercial ship to cut undersea cables and there will be no serious repercussions. A Chinese cargo vessel dragged its anchor just north of Keelung Harbor, Taiwan and severed an AT&T internet cable. Investigators think the attack may have been initiated by Russia, possibly in retaliation for supporting Ukraine in the conflict.

Chinese ship ‘severs undersea cables around Taiwan’

 

Not all of China unemployed college graduates are "lying flat"--living at home with their parents and not working. It's hard to say what is more sad: someone with a master's degree in physics working as a high school handyman, or that same person lying flat and unemployed. At least they're trying . . .

China's overqualified youth taking jobs as drivers, labourers and film extras