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A sort of mutual assistance arrangement, since the purpose of the Great Game is to learn as much as possible.

@Edward TKS New equiptments, new ships, new jets, new crews, new pilots, the new comers value training more.

@Edward TKS Yup, US being escort out most of the time.

Oh no glorious leader is in Bad health 😭😭😭

You know, that might actually not be good news. I hope it is the result of his planned weight loss.

He kept the important weight in his big brain.

Ozempic…….

​@@wattsmichaele naw its heart disease

I've seen China's industry rapidly catch up in many of my unrelated hobbies too, in fountain pens they went from crap that would break after two weeks to unironically having way better QC than renowned brands like Mont Blanc and Parker in the last decade (though honestly any fountain pen user would tell you this isn't a high bar nowadays) at a fraction of even the latter's budget offerings. It isn't controversial to say that DJI is absolutely dominating the consumer drone market, and that their offerings aren't shoddy either.

The quality on the made in China goods really depends on whether you are willing to pay for the extra quality control options. Ironically, most of the Parkers and Mont Blanc are probably made in China without paying for the QC.

Have to agree with the other commenters. You get what you pay for. A lot of top-of-the-line Chinese products exceed popular intl brands, while still being competitive in price.

@@suisinghoraceho2403 the embarrassing thing is that neither companies have their pens made in china, so they don't even have that excuse.

The Chinese are great at copying. They suck at original ideas. The reason is actually quite basic but hard to spot without being aware of your own personal bias and blinders. Have you ever wondered why the Chinese and Russians are complaining about "the West" and how we're "forcing democratic values on them"? Because... That's not what we're doing. Like... We're not. We're just doing business with them. There is no government agency in the West with that task or any task even coming in the general direction of that. And we're also quite happy to do business with dictators. So, what's going on? Well, we're doing it by accident. You can take an engineer out of the West, but you can't take the West out of an engineer. All the things that make a person a great inventive thinker are also things that make that person more inclined towards democracy and personal freedom. So, while it's not impossible for a loyal Chinese Engineer to be a great inventor and thinker it's a lot less likely. And they can't overcome that. They can't even recognize it, because it would be critical towards their way of government. For someone from the West to realize what's going on he "only" has to be able to recognize the internal bias he has grown into.

😂😂😂That's exactly what youtube looks like.

Tho one probably shouldnt overestimate the chinese airforce either, people think a bit too much in extremes. They clearly have learned and would likely be more effective than eg the russian airforce, but its still an uproven system in many ways.

No no no... The PLARF is way more respected. PLAAF is pretty good, but the PLARF is what will keep the carriers in check.

@@termitreter6545 The U.S. military has been proven more than once that they got their asses kicked hard by fighting goat jockeys with sandals and only M16's from the Middle East and rice farmers with sandals using only shovels from Vietnam.

​@@termitreter6545 absolutely right, as a Chinese i must agree with u, pla is still weak as 1950s😢it make me sad but it's truth

@@zeqc2022 Would be nice if it was so, considering Chinas manages to threaten about half their neighboars with their idiotic, nationalist warmongering.

I also noticed that 👍

Rubbish!

Im a lot less optimistic here, the chinese regime just had to accept that flexibility is necessary for effective combat. The more effective training is rather a tool to support their imperialist ambitions, eg towards Taiwan. Theyre picking up a lot of western ideas in this regard, and seem smarter than Russia at implementing them. It might seem natural to assume authoritarians militaries are inflexible, especially since this was very much the case with Soveits and Chinese in the past. But eg nazi-germany relied on a tradition of giving NCOs and officers on location more freedom than some other militaries, like the british forces (ofc the brits also adapted to their experience in turn).

@@termitreter6545 Alas, you could be right, it's always hard to extrapolate trends, and something seemingly positive might not lead to what you outcomes we expect.

@@vickydroid Id certainly like to be optimistic, but the general political situation in china goes in the wrong direction. Its becoming more authoritarian, with Xi collecting more power in his person than previous rulers. Now, it is possible that the chinese get tired of him, especially considering hes not exactly a great ruler. But his political position seems very strong, and hes using nationalism and artificial conflicts with other nations to distract from the issues. Whole situatoin has a few too many parallels to russia to be optmistic for me^^

​@@termitreter6545 Then you most probably don't understand their system of electing a leader. Xi cannot elect himself. He is elected by a committee of the highest ranking members of the People's Congress at the final stage of the election hierarchy. Each term lasts 5 years and it can be renewed or rejected if he does not perform to the peoples' expectations. Checkout Elections in China.

​@@termitreter6545 can you read chinese. Or you are just another china observer can't even read chinese

And, as a matter of fact, it is false...

@@Millennium7HistoryTech 😂😂😂. Well you’re still the ‘best channel’ for me

@@Millennium7HistoryTech Roma wasn't build in a day

The difference is Japanese pilots had years of training and actual war experience. Contrary to popular belief the Mitsubishi A6M Zero was an aircraft with a couple of deep flaws that led to catastrophic pilot losses. You wouldn't want to get into a turning fight against one though.

@@patrickweaver1105 the difference training innovation has advanced to “ real world experience” simulators and training sessions with other countries.

@@patrickweaver1105 not sure where people got the idea that actual war experience is the only way to gain experience or skill. modern training can 100% replicate real life engagements.

@@jonathanpfeffer3716 It's not the only way it's the final school. The one that really counts. Get a failing grade there and you're dead. No simulator can replicate it.

@@patrickweaver1105 The western airforces barely had "live airwarfare" for decades, and before you cite iraq, most of the air kills done in Iraq were mostly from superior radar that the US literally shot the migs before they can even see em. We can see how close the fights can be when the tech is closer to eachother (falklands war). So saying their airforce have "real life experience" by bombing insurgence is as shallow as saying you have real war experience cahsing off somali pirates.

Why not? Chinese have been watching and learning from Russia and west for 50 years now, and since the last few decades when china has global coverage and can spy on all US and allies military exercises, what is there to hide still? USA has not fought a modern peer adversary in a theater where they don't have air supremacy or sea supremacy. Over Taiwan it will likely be the reverse, with China enjoying massive advantage due to logistics and geography. USA would have to fight the whole thing inside china's a2-AD range and play right into chinas hands and what they've single mindedly been planning and building for for 70 years or more now. China's in no rush since war is never good but it will never back down to foreign threats and meddling in china's internal affairs, aka the unfinished Chinese civil war between PRC and ROC.

The last time USAF shot down a plane was a su22 in 2017. Previously it was 1999 over Kosovo Serbia. So the actual pilots with combat experience probably has since retired. Sure there is institutional experience based on records but when was the last time there was any peer to peer Fox 3 BVR air combat with modern DIRM? I reckon none

thanks i learned a new word

Why do you concern about china military? Do you think china will attack america?? For what? And until today, we saw the US troops are around the china 😂😂😂

@@creatormaxi8324 They have no reason to go to war, war is bad for their economy. On the other hand war is good for the US economy..

The thing is, Americans know why they're falling behind in progress and why China is catching up. But unlike in the 50s and 60s when they resolved to win the Space Race, train their workforce with the GI bill, invest in infrastructure, they're resigned to a policy of managed decline.

@@creatormaxi8324 They are not "around China"... they have been invited by nations, neighboring China... and it seems those countries are worrying more and more about China's imperialistic behavior. In a nutshell : "I'm the most powerful country around... therefore, I take what I want !" So yeah... if China keeps messing with nations that are allied with the US one way or the other... things could go south pretty quickly.

he literally put a screenshot of the report in the video, just google it the title, its the first thing that pops up

I think we've gotten to know Russian military capabilities quite well over the past year.

There's plenty info on both those places for those willing to look.

@@mikewade777 I thought I knew a lot about the US until I actually visited the country, then I realised I knew sweet fa about the place. That's the position the west is in Vis a v the east. We don't speak the languages, we don't visit the counties, we don't study there, we don't consume there media, I'm not sure we're even allowed to. What we get is the curated by think tanks version of China and Russia. On the other hand Russia and China do all the thing we don't, they study, they visit, they consume our media. This asymmetry is present in diplomacy, military affairs, education, media, it worries me greatly. The west is fighting a fantasy version of Russia and China. See the failure of sanctions, the over estimating of Russian military capacity, the belief that Putin can be removed, that the Russian federation should be broken up.

@@merocaine you could try speaking to people from other countries, you learn a lot. The sanctions haven't failed. They effect the rural outlying regions more than the cities but will eventually effect the cities.

@@mikewade777 "There's plenty info on both those places for those willing to look." No, there isn't. Because the overwhelming majority of "information" available in the west is just garbage. Because in the last 3 decades, the west has built up a system that promotes POLITICALLY CORRECT assertions about Russia in particular, but also to a lesser degree, but quickly increasing about China. The think tanks and the bigwigs basically just play echo chamber with what the lunatics in Washington wants to hear. And over the last 20+ years, that echo chamber have been filled with more and more racism, hate propaganda, dehumanisation and demonisation. All brought together by the wonders of wishful thinking and ARROGANCE beyond belief that seems to infect USA so disgustingly and increasingly among the selfproclaimed elite that plagues the nation. . "The sanctions haven't failed. They effect the rural outlying regions more than the cities but will eventually effect the cities." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... And there you prove it yourself, you're listening to the absolutely incompetent and delusional(or completely intentional) propaganda and you blindly believe it to be true, despite that there are no actual supporting facts. Quite the opposite! Guess why even IMF stated that Russian economy will GROW in 2023, despite essentially all of Nato and EU will have a recession, quite possibly a SEVERE recession. Guess why IMF expect Russian economy to grow EVEN MORE in 2024? Oh, the Russian economy was DISRUPTED, by the sanctions. However, those disruptions are a shortterm issue, and with some exceptions, most of them have now been taken care of. And the result is that the HUGE amount of things that Russians used to buy imported? Now they've found that, hey, actually these Russian brands are just as good, and cheaper! And some Russian industries even have outright boom markets. Like softdrinks. Domestic production of those have increased by an almost ridiculous amount. I guess you also believe that Russia can't build advanced electronics because they don't have chips... And like all the morons who think that, i point them to the wikipedia article of PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, about the Krokus chipfab outside of Moscow, which entered fullscale massproduction in 2018, and when it did, made Russian military completely INDEPENDENT from outside sorces of chips. Because hey, guess what, Russia inherited the ability to build their own chipfabs from the USSR. They're not up to date with production nodes? Who cares, as long as the hardware works correctly and is reliable, which it does and is. . The sanctions have not just failed, they have actually STRENGTHENED RUSSIA. That is the simple truth, and something you would know even if you just stepped outside the propaganda bubble and listened to African, Indian, Latin American news. What's worse, is the fact that the sanctions are going to destroy the EU economies. 30% increased price on food even just here in Sweden in the last year? Which isn't anywhere near the worst hit in Europe. Oh yes, thank you EVER so much for that Biden maffia regime. It's become a frickin meme, "Russia's economy is in tatters! In tatters i tell you!". That's what Ursula the idiot said and keeps repeating variations of, and she's just as wrong now as she was the first time she said it. The only difference is that NOW, even the big western names are openly admitting that it's wrong. Most notably, the IMF.

Thank you!

It was mentioned in a Short some time ago.

Having a 'warrior class/culture' is politically dangerous for any peoples (see: Myanmar, failed Turkish coup, the Gabon shenanigans, etc), and the opposite of that the CPC wants - the party must control the g*n after all, as that is where political power comes out of. Definitely improving their capabilities and training, but not creating a modern 'knight' class.

@@unknownuser069 The Chinese had enough awareness to see that they had a problem and culture they knew they couldn’t solve themselves, but went outside for assistance to establish that knowledge and culture within their ranks. We did the same thing after WWII in the scientific community by bringing in all of those German/NAZI scientists in. The Chinese admitting that they have a problem and that they needed help, was a huge step forward for them and a big deal.

@@unknownuser069 Irans Air Force is ancient and their weapons on their aircraft are equally as ancient. Also there’s the issue that the ayatollahs irgc cancels potential fighter acquisitions of the iriaf to avoid the iriaf threatening the control of the country that the irgc has.

Not really. The Japanese pilots had years of actual wartime experience and well tested doctrine. China hasn't fought a large scale air campaign since Korea. and even then they flew a tenth of the sorties Americans did. Chinese pilots, and their equipment, are completely untested.

​@@patrickweaver1105 Being untested and being capable are different things. We know their planes are capable, and we know how they changed their training program. All signs they are progressing at a staggering pace.

@@patrickweaver1105 you know what make me laugh when I see comments like your all over RU-vid is people say china don’t have war experience. But isn’t it the same with America that that might have fought war but do America have experience fought with china so that you can called it as experience. Otherwise why people keep bringing American fight in Middle East and comparing with different geography, different strategy everything is different. So both china and America they don’t have experience but you also say Chinese weapon are untest . Well American weapon is also untest with china so does that mean it will not work lol .

@@ranfak Laugh all you want but until people are shooting back you're not really learning what it's like.

@@voidtempering8700 We actually know next to nothing about Chinese planes or training. Being untested means inexperienced in combat. Training, no matter how good, only goes so far.

They are trying hard to match it. They are not there yet, but they are getting close.

China's air force got mauled in Korea. The Russians carried the bulk of aerial warfare for North Korea. They developed some good pilots through a darwinian process of attrition but that's about it.

@@patrickweaver1105 That's because the majority of the air force was Soviet. Killing 211 Sabre out of 800 killed ain't that bad from an air force with pilots that have only 2 months of training.

@@MGZetta Only78 sabers were lost by the USAF in air to air combat in the Korean war. The vast majority to Soviet pilots who had experience from WWII. There is no substitute for combat experience. Likewise the claims of kills by American pilots are inflated. Kill ratio against Soviets were about 1.4:1. Against Chinese pilots it was about 8:1. Don't believe your own propaganda.

@@patrickweaver1105 Let me teach you how to find a real source. Non-partisan, nonprofit, American think tank, Rand corporation said the research shows a 1.8:1 ratio in the Korean war between only MiG-15 and Sabre. (1.3:1 against Soviet pilots) The US admitted that they lost around 250 Sabre and most of them lost due to "unknown causes" or "other causes". The US is widely known for attributing their crash landings due to battle damage to "landing accidents" or "other causes". Don't believe in your own propaganda.

@@patrickweaver1105 It is well known that the performance of US troops in Korea is getting better and better with time, just as we know that the United States was the first to capture Berlin. Maybe USSR would become a member of Axis after a decade or so. I couldn't even tell which side loves propoganda most.🤣

Aldo, there is DCS World VR 😂

@@scroopynooperz9051 it does help

The snark to the degree that it was present is honestly fine, a lot of dumb Americans think that they are dealing with China of the 1970's to this very day, and that ignorance will be taken advantage of by their war hawk politicians to lead the country into a pointless confrontation with the Chinese.

I don't actually believe China has a culture of conformity to begin with. standard is not conformity. there is alot of bias language when it come to China. alot of the thing we discovered ain't really changes, rather they are correction of our own misunderstanding.

It is all OSINT

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