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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.
Well tell me this!!!! Who is going to attack the USA???????
You surely have never needed any good reason to buid by FAR the biggest offensive military the world has ever seen.
So, I guess it's safe to assume that it's for attacking someone.
Who's next?
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.
same reason as USA. china has expanding sphere of influence but is unable to mobilize its forces in many parts of the world. take africa for example. chian investing a lot there, but its only soft power atm. it wants hard power as well.
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.
Russia isn't necessarily an ally. Russia and China have always had cool relations not to mention that Russia forced China to give up Mongolia, and annexed from China half of Heilongjiang.
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