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Do you actually want to know or is this one of those rhetorical anti-military threads?
China has interests, much like any other country. One of those interests is Taiwan and a move by Taiwan towards militarization. In addition, Japan is a concern and has always been one for China. That's a history that has gone back for hundreds of years. Now, add the United States and Russia into the mix. Both are trading partners but only Russia is considered a military ally.
Chinese military philosophy is dramatically different than that of most Western nations, especially the United States. China considers multiple fronts of action against those they see as aggressors. They have three primary fronts: direct military arming, economic interests, and information flow. If you look at the aggregate of China's actions in the last twenty years, you will clearly see the strategy revealed. Everything from the manipulation of currency, luring companies into China with cheap labor and then making demands upon them that leave the company little room to create an exit strategy, the constant and unrelentless moves to infiltrate networks and computer systems of non-ally countries, and keeping non-ally countries in check by owning huge portions of their debt.
Make no mistake about it. China is looking to be THE superpower of this world.
U.S. already owes them a few trillion so they are well on their way. They have planned well.
The Chinese are a little more advanced for that sort of strategy. Sun Tze said a war is won or lost before the fighting even starts and the good general wins the war without even fighting.
Sun Tzu
Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him
It's going to be another bogus "Cold War" for the 21st century... Essentially... China will replace the Soviet Union...
They have 1 Air Craft Carrier that is a rebuild and an Army that is much smaller than it used to be. All in all they spend only a small fraction of what we do. Remember that Police are part of the PLA except in some cities
The amount of people in their military doesn't matter. Places like North Korea can have their huge armies walk through the city all they want, but wars aren't won that way anymore...
If they ever get attacked by Al-Qaida or a similar group, they will immediately retaliate. They will wipe them off the map without a second thought. They have no red tape to go through to mobilize their military. They don't care about the UN.
There is no question about them becoming a superpower. They are one. They just choose not to be the world police and advise strongly that any bordering countries not to mess with them. They don't need to appease anyone.
China has the largest standing Army in the world and is spending billions a year on military hardware. What is the purpose? They really have no fear of invading...who would do that. So it is safe to assume that it is for offense, but against whom.
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Sometime watch the way the regional and world news is presented on chinese cable tv stations. It becomes very clear the way China sees itself as the dominant power in its "neighborhood" of Asia and the Eastern hemisphere, in much the same way that the U.S. now dominates the Western hemisphere.
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So why is China building such a huge Military?
