] for as the wise and famous ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu had both preached and been taught in China for thousands of years after his death
IIRC, Sun Tzu was famous and wise, but no king hired him as a general to practise what he preached?
ISTR the only case was when a king entertained him and gave him two queens and their maids to train into an army. He ordered the queens and maids to line up and prepare for a drill. They ignored him, so he ordered the two queens to be beheaded. The king complained, but he said military orders are like a mountain. A general or king whose orders are ignored, projects no authority, and endangers himself. After the queens were removed, the maids seriously obeyed his orders.
] A lot of the world began to grovel to the newly recognized superpower,
History is cyclic. China was a superpower until the Ming Dynasty, and had been for thousands of years, albeit uncontinuously – sometimes disrupted by barbarian occupations, such as the five Hu, the Jin, the Yuan (Mongolians), and the Qing.
The more dynamic USA is only 200-odd years old.
] the American’s did the same with the defecting Soviet MiG-25 ‘Foxbat’ to Japan!
IIRC, even now, some US allies still use FSU hardware: Greece (SAMs), Poland (fighters), South Korea (AFVs and heloes), &c.
] to which the PRC’s embassy in Belgrade had been struck and damaged by U.S cruise missile attacks, killing three-Chinese citizens,
IIRC, a B-2 dropped JDAMs at the Chinese embassy, not cruise missiles; and blamed an outdated city map.
OTOH, when the US embassies were bombed by terrorists in Africa, the Clinton administration launched cruise missiles into Afghanistan, to hit terrorist training camps; and with the usual rumour that cruise missile parts were recovered and collected by China, Iran, or Russia.
] I can only see the PAAF’s F-8 collision with the EP-3 as being caused by either way of two things
That J-8 is PLAN (navy).
] This role and mission is not new. These type of flights / missions have been going on since 1945
The Warpac and China had been shooting down NATO and Taiwanese ELINT aircraft since the beginning of the Cold War.
OTOH, did NATO and Taiwan shoot down Warpac and Chinese ELINT aircraft?
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