As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time for some retrospective and vote for the single greatest PRC win in the military, technological, softpower, and/or geopolitical sphere. After you’ve voted please comment why you think your choice is correct.
Greatest PRC win of the past year
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Liberation day tariffs for me. Trump single-handedly driving all possible supply chains into China with the amount of trade uncertainty he created. Mega self-own.
For me it was a difficult choice between Sep 3 Parade and the EUV reveal this week. You should add the EUV reveal to the poll as well.
I chose Sep 3 cause that was the most comprehensive demo of China's military advancements. It answered many many gaps I have been noticing in China's military tech. They basically leap frogged the west with this parade in pretty much every major weapons category. New tanks, all the unmanned vehicles, 6th gen CCA drones, massive variety of Hypersonic missiles, massive improvement in Air and missile defense, stealth anti-ship missile no category was missing in terms qualitative leapfrog.
For me 6th gen reveal was a great achievement as well, but not that important cause its just fighter jets. Modern warfare is significantly more complex than just fighter jets. Its about all the support elements too such as the drone advancements, AWACS and also all the ground based air defense necessary. Sep 3rd parade shows all those advancements making the PLA a comprehensive fighting force.
The EUV reveal is I would say just as important as the Sep 3rd parade cause entire US and western world thinking is that they can stop China's growth because of lack of chips and the main reason that China cannot catch up in chips is because of EUV which was portrayed as the complex human technology in existance. Now China has broken that chokehold and destroyed their entire worldview.
I don't believe EUV is that complex, its just something China didn't think they needed to develop in the past so they didn't invest much on it. Now that they are putting whole of nation effort on getting chip self-reliance, EUV will be shown as pretty easy as well.
I chose Sep 3 cause that was the most comprehensive demo of China's military advancements. It answered many many gaps I have been noticing in China's military tech. They basically leap frogged the west with this parade in pretty much every major weapons category. New tanks, all the unmanned vehicles, 6th gen CCA drones, massive variety of Hypersonic missiles, massive improvement in Air and missile defense, stealth anti-ship missile no category was missing in terms qualitative leapfrog.
For me 6th gen reveal was a great achievement as well, but not that important cause its just fighter jets. Modern warfare is significantly more complex than just fighter jets. Its about all the support elements too such as the drone advancements, AWACS and also all the ground based air defense necessary. Sep 3rd parade shows all those advancements making the PLA a comprehensive fighting force.
The EUV reveal is I would say just as important as the Sep 3rd parade cause entire US and western world thinking is that they can stop China's growth because of lack of chips and the main reason that China cannot catch up in chips is because of EUV which was portrayed as the complex human technology in existance. Now China has broken that chokehold and destroyed their entire worldview.
I don't believe EUV is that complex, its just something China didn't think they needed to develop in the past so they didn't invest much on it. Now that they are putting whole of nation effort on getting chip self-reliance, EUV will be shown as pretty easy as well.
Its the J-10 shoot out.
Social media is a cancer, but Reddit is better than most as there are generally subs where people who are knowledgeable contribute.
Even on technical subs like aviation, everyone used to mock Chinese jets and call any advance Chinese jet a Temu copy etc etc. The J-10 shootdowns changed everything. It was like a massive cultural shift. A real-world result that made people take Chinese gear seriously.
People are taking the 6th gen proto types more seriously because of the actions of the Pl-15s.
Social media is a cancer, but Reddit is better than most as there are generally subs where people who are knowledgeable contribute.
Even on technical subs like aviation, everyone used to mock Chinese jets and call any advance Chinese jet a Temu copy etc etc. The J-10 shootdowns changed everything. It was like a massive cultural shift. A real-world result that made people take Chinese gear seriously.
People are taking the 6th gen proto types more seriously because of the actions of the Pl-15s.
Idk man. All the posts defending India's honor... I can't really see that as a net win for PRC or humanity.
India getting exposed to the whole world as a lying weakling phony was much more satisfying than the actual shootdowns themselves. Indians in general have been exposed to the whole world by their pathetic attempts