China has nuclear weapons with ICBMs, one of the largest armies in the world (perhaps even the largest) and claims of “a military beset by enemies with a history of invading and killing Chinese” are just overwrought nonsense.

No more overwrought nonsense than this bull manure about the Chinese carrier.

And it does come down to race.

Millions of Chinese were killed by the Japanese and Chinese territory was invaded by Japanese and foreigners.

But Japan is not questioned when it brings up that China is a “threat”? Japan attacked China not the other way around!

There are carriers around the world.

And YET only China’s carrier is questioned. Why is that? If it isn’t racial prejudice then what is it?

Japan had invaded and kill millions of Chinese. That scenario is real and has been proven by history.

The scenario that the Japanese are projecting of a Chinese “threat” is far less real and has not be born out by history.

What is this bull manure about “mythical” Japanese invasion? Thirty million dead is mythical? Was the Holocaust mythical too? Or is only Chinese casualty “mythical”?

The carrier can’t protect China from a Japanese invasion or an American air strike similar to what had happened to Iraq. But it is a step towards modernizing a military beset by enemies with a history of invading and killing Chinese.

Trident:

I understand your point, but to my mind it still seems jarring to announce both a new carrier and a missile system which, if it worked, would effectively render the carrier obsolete

Who announced what?

It was the US (USNI) that publicly declared that the DF-21D existed. Just like the anti-satellite kinetic kill weapon, China would never have acknowledged it if the US had not made it public and challenged China to speak openly about it.

As for the carrier, it never been mentioned publicly during the 10 years it lay at Dalian until sea trials were imminent and even then it is spoken of as a training system with no ability to change the balance of power.

For some reason China needs an ever bigger military budget, more ships, submarines, fighters, etc. This is despite the fact that none of its neighbours are ever likely to attack it unless China attacks first.

Funny that.

Funny that 30 million Chinese were killed by Japan when Japan attacked China first. Unless China has a first world military there is no guarantee that this would not happen again. There is no apology and no promise that Japan would not attack China.

Already Japan is calling China an enemy and to Chinese eyes this is could be preparation for another attack on China.

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Anyway, we should get used to a superpower acts like a superpower :diablo::diablo::diablo:

China doesn’t see itself as a superpower and neither do the Chinese from any number of polls.

The PRC officially takes the position in all international organizations without exception that it is a developing nation. It doesn’t matter if it is the G-20, WTO or at Copenhagen, it states that it is third world.

That said, it does have the trappings of a P5 position at the UNSC, etc. that create an inferiority complex for a nation like India that is way behind in every aspect that is measurable whether it’s the military, the economy or geo-political weight.

A sense of inferiority is the only reason the IAF would need to bring up the J-20 and denigrate it at their show.

you really don’t think Israel can take on Germany should it some how decide to invade?

No I don’t. Israel had more than enough trouble invading Lebanon or even keeping the Gaza strip in check. The US took over Iraq, a much larger nation lock, stock and barrel. The truth is it lives in a pretty weak neighborhood.

Carve Israel out of Vietnam and see if it would have survived. I sincerely doubt it would have done better than a half-million US troops.

I find it inconceivable that the IAF would have any greater advantage than the Indian Olympic team have over the Chinese one.

The gap in the quality of infrastructure and organization tends to hold true across all institutions and levels of society when comparing nations. The saving grace for the IAF is that it doesn’t have to compete for earnest every four years like the Olympic squad so its strengths and weaknesses are not exposed on the anvil of competition.

It’s a light attack copter like the Cobra since it is based on the Z-9 (Dauphin) much like the Cobra was based on the Huey.