How China's Military Views the United States

China IS racing past the U.S. . . . on the road to financial ruin. NEXT!

 

China will not be racing past anyone on this bridge. Another example of China being unable to conquer (or even work with) Mother Nature. For such a newly constructed country, China seems to have a lot of problems with infrastructure. Makes you think that they might be taking shortcuts in their construction . . .

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/20/china/bridge-collapse-shanxi-china-intl/index.html


A screengrab taken from a video shows a partially collapsed bridge in China's northern province of Shanxi on Saturday.

 

A lot of people in China are opting out of the 9-9-6 work culture (9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., six days a week) of China's biggest corporations and working manual labor jobs instead. They have more control over their hours, and have more freedom to enjoy their lives. They are choosing to remain in the cities, delivering food or cleaning houses, or doing other work. The slowing economy in China is weakening the job market and making the fewer corporate jobs harder to get. (Young Chinese people are not going out and working in the farms like Chairman Xi told them to do.)

Universities are also criticized for being behind the times, focusing education towards a future working in a factory or in public service, while the economy has switched to advanced/green technology and service industries.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/20/economy/china-economy-employment-blue-collar-work-intl-hnk/index.html

 

China continues to pour more money into its struggling manufacturing businesses, even as their overseas customers are giving them the cold shoulder. Over-capacity is "rampant". Chinese companies are slashing prices and profits. The economy is being dragged towards deflation.

The Chinese decision-making system is to blame for much of these problems. The central committee chooses an industry that needs to be "favored", and the money pours in to build factories. Everyone puts their hand out to get their share, and they wind up with over-capacity. (This has been a problem for over a decade. In one chemicals business I am familiar with, a particular chemical was over-produced by a factor of three compared to the demand, which never fully materialized.) The cycle appears to be: spend-build-crash, with no learning whatsoever. Idle factories are not a productive use of capital.

Feared in the West, China’s Manufacturers Struggle at Home

 

The U.S. may have a new answer to China's shipbuilding frenzy: QUICKSINK. It is a new weapon from the air that takes ships to the bottom . . . quickly. It has the potential to destroy surface ships so effectively (and safely, for the pilot and the plane) that attack submarines may be taken out of service permanently (subs make themselves known to all ships in the area when they launch a torpedo). QUICKSINK is basically an advanced guided bomb dropped from above.

I'm surprised this has not been developed before now.

A US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber helped sink an old warship in the Pacific with new anti-ship QUICKSINK bombs

 

Not sure about the technical questions. I'm guessing that the B-2's could fly out of Guam. Maybe F-35's on a carrier could also carry this weapon.

 

More on China's economic problems: one answer for China's lack of money and failing economy is to have people work longer. Unfortunately, that went over like a lead balloon. China's elderly did not like that idea at all. There was a severe backlash from the old folks. China has been trying to do this since 2013, and the people don't want any part of this in any way, shape or form. One complaint: there are no jobs for the elderly. Sad place.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/23/business/china-retirement-age-backlash-intl-hnk/index.html

 

China brought some thugs to the party last November when Chairman Xi met Biden in San Francisco. Knowing that there would be protests against Xi's policies, China arranged to have CCP supporters flown in from other parts of the U.S. to deliver a beating to the protesters. They carefully choreographed the beatings, hiding their dirty work with large Chinese flags. What a nice country China must be; willing to bring thugs to a peaceful meeting to control the narrative through violence. I can only imagine what a lowlife someone would have to be to defend this behavior.

Xi Jinping’s lackeys ‘hid behind Chinese flags to beat up protesters in San Francisco’

 

Some good news and bad news for China. The world's biggest polluter, with over 9 billions tons of coal-burning in 2022, has made some dramatic reductions in coal use by increasing use of green alternatives. The bad news is that, with 70% less aerosol emissions, more sunlight is getting through to the Pacific Ocean and heating it up more, increasing the chances for powerful typhoons and heavy rains leading to floods.

New research suggests major change in China's air pollution may have kick-started bizarre effects: 'It will give us surprises'

 

China's submarine force is an embarrassment. The lowest ranked officers in China are sent to submarine service. Officers are often described as "mentally unbalanced" and are known for panicking easily. So far, China has only lost one sub. Not to enemy fire, but to anti-submarine coastal defenses . . . of China. If war breaks out between the U.S. and China, my only concern is that the U.S. would not be able to sink either Chinese aircraft carrier . . . because Chinese submarines would sink them first.

 

China admits that a Hong Kong-based cargo ship "accidentally" damaged an undersea gas line between Estonia and Finland, two countries on Russia's enemy list. The Chinese ship apparently dropped an anchor near the pipeline during a storm, and then dragged it across the pipeline. Finland gets much of its energy from the pipeline. China would like their report on the incident to be the final report, and is not cooperating with any further investigation by the EU.

China admits Hong Kong-flagged ship destroyed key Baltic gas pipeline 'by accident'

 

China gets aggressive with the Philippines, and continues their policy of reckless and dangerous behavior from their air force pilots. Chinese jets dropped flares in front of the path of a Philippines aircraft monitoring the Scarborough Shoal, which is claimed by both the Philippines and China (under China's illegal Nine Dashes Line).

Philippines urges China to de-escalate tensions after air incident over Scarborough Shoal