Re: Shenyang new generation fighter
Given the cries for China especially the military to be transparent from Republicans and Democrats I would say the story tends to be true. Every other angle I hear to the contrary is much like when I hear my friend's kid tell me that Navy Seals are in every country around the world. I've posted before about seeing this former CIA official interviewed who wrote a book about CIA failures. Some of his stories had to do with China during the 50s and 60s. China seems to have a very effective counter intelligence. Did you know that all of the Tibetan insurgents that the CIA trained that were sent into China during the Cold War have never been heard from again? And the stories have to have some validity because the CIA has final approval when their exploits are exposed to the public by their own people.
Germany found out that China already had a very good counter-espionage effort during the
, because it became impossible to hire Chinese security forces who knew the turf. These experiences dissuaded the colonial powers from too far incursions into China that could have resulted in an economic drain like the one enacted upon India. Seems like the Germans mostly left recipes for the
and a very bad memory, including the infamous
that was going to haunt us all over. All this could likely have been done without a shot fired, butgoing military was en vogue and the best chance for bitching great powers to do something together instead of the culminations of WWI and WWII that were to follow.
China was during one of their weakest hours acknowledged as a shrewd and capable enemy on the espionage frontline and the usual narrative understates the modernization of armed forces that was being worked out. Subsequent failures resulted in an organizational overhaul - the very pragmatic Chinese outlook is likely a result - that was accelerated by continuous enemy incursions, like the Japanese invasion. A lot of people died in China, like in the Soviet Union and other parts of the world. In China this shock served to achieve the current status of China by throwing much overboard, possibly too much, but the ship got going again. Many of the dead did fight with all available means for something and others were killed by the occupiers, a reason more to deny them the ability to implement their intentions.
Do you want to blame people that they know all about cowboys and indians and nothing about the old kingdom of Silla? It might be frustrating from a Chinese POV that your part in WWII seems forgotten, although the Chinese UN seat is a permanent reminder of recognition of this contribution. Japan and Germany, despite their decades of influence and wealth, still long for such a seat and all its implications and recognition. Honestly, if Pearl Harbour wasn't a film, who in Europe would know about it? Make a good film about Chinese WWII resistance for a contemporary Western audience and get rid of this perceived problem. The
might be a good entrance to give a hand in mutual understanding (the old Soviets did multiple films of this kind).
is a typical example of another one trying his hand at an Albanian alliance.
See the positive aspect, see China as the culmination hub of multiple traditional grids in various fields that was defended mostly intact and reclaims their economic power position now, plus advancing the military power projection capability and the global connections again.
So what's new about the fighter aircraft?