India incursion and Chinese standoff at Dolam, Bhutan
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In relevant matter China just appoint general with real war experience as PLA chief of staff. A Vietnam war veteran and highly decorated hero too
China's Xi Names Combat Veteran to Top Military Post
By
Keith Zhai
August 23, 2017, 10:57 PM CDT
Li Zuocheng.
President Xi Jinping appointed one of China’s few top generals with combat experience to a powerful military post, according to two people familiar with the matter.
General Li Zuocheng, 63, a veteran of the country’s brief and bloody 1979 war with Vietnam, was this week named chief of the People Liberation Army’s Joint Staff Department, the people said, asking not to be identified because the announcement was internal. He replaces General Fang Fenghui, who last week hosted the U.S.’s top uniformed officer, General Joseph Dunford, and is expected to receive another position, they said.
Li’s appointment to the post -- created last year as part of the largest military overhaul in six decades -- underscores Xi’s desire to turn the 2.3 million member PLA into force “able to fight and win wars.” China hasn’t been involved in a major conflict since the border clash with Vietnam.
The promotion puts Li directly under the 11-member Central Military Commission, which is led by Xi and due for a reshuffle after an upcoming Communist Party congress. Only one of seven vice chairman of the elite CMC since 2002 had combat experience on his service record.
The Joint Staff Department is a central component to Xi’s reform and oversees PLA’s operations, intelligence and training. Fang’s recent meeting with Dunford, the chairman of the U.S.’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggests that Li will occupy a top liaison role at a time of increasing tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
China’s Ministry of National Defense in Beijing didn’t respond to a faxed request for comment Wednesday.
The move is among several promotions ahead of the party congress, in which Xi will preside over the replacement of much of the country’s leadership from the military to provincial governments. The twice-a-decade gathering will shape the influence for years to come of a president already considered the country’s most powerful leader in a generation.
Li, who most recently led the PLA’s ground forces, received China’s highest military honor, a first-class merit for his leadership of an infantry company during the war. His unit was credited with killing 294 Vietnamese combatants in less than four weeks, earning him a reputation as China’s “most feared war hero,” according to a Beijing Daily story published after his previous promotion.
Xi’s overhaul has focused on expanding China’s ability to project force further from its shores, in part by adopting a joint command structure similar to the U.S. The two-year-old effort has helped challenge more than 70 years of American military dominance in the Western Pacific.
The president is reducing the PLA’s overall personnel numbers by 300,000 -- mostly from the ground forces -- while adding new missile, cyberwarfare and outer-space capabilities. He has replaced the previous seven military regions with five “joint theater commands” and clarified the CMC’s leadership role.
Last month, Xi told a gathering of troops to mark the PLA’s 90th anniversary that the country must accelerate its military modernization drive because “the world isn’t safe.”
China's Xi Names Combat Veteran to Top Military Post
By
Keith Zhai
August 23, 2017, 10:57 PM CDT
- Li Zuocheng appointed to lead key Joint Staff Department
- Move underscores push for army able to ‘fight and win wars’
Li Zuocheng.
President Xi Jinping appointed one of China’s few top generals with combat experience to a powerful military post, according to two people familiar with the matter.
General Li Zuocheng, 63, a veteran of the country’s brief and bloody 1979 war with Vietnam, was this week named chief of the People Liberation Army’s Joint Staff Department, the people said, asking not to be identified because the announcement was internal. He replaces General Fang Fenghui, who last week hosted the U.S.’s top uniformed officer, General Joseph Dunford, and is expected to receive another position, they said.
Li’s appointment to the post -- created last year as part of the largest military overhaul in six decades -- underscores Xi’s desire to turn the 2.3 million member PLA into force “able to fight and win wars.” China hasn’t been involved in a major conflict since the border clash with Vietnam.
The promotion puts Li directly under the 11-member Central Military Commission, which is led by Xi and due for a reshuffle after an upcoming Communist Party congress. Only one of seven vice chairman of the elite CMC since 2002 had combat experience on his service record.
The Joint Staff Department is a central component to Xi’s reform and oversees PLA’s operations, intelligence and training. Fang’s recent meeting with Dunford, the chairman of the U.S.’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggests that Li will occupy a top liaison role at a time of increasing tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
China’s Ministry of National Defense in Beijing didn’t respond to a faxed request for comment Wednesday.
The move is among several promotions ahead of the party congress, in which Xi will preside over the replacement of much of the country’s leadership from the military to provincial governments. The twice-a-decade gathering will shape the influence for years to come of a president already considered the country’s most powerful leader in a generation.
Li, who most recently led the PLA’s ground forces, received China’s highest military honor, a first-class merit for his leadership of an infantry company during the war. His unit was credited with killing 294 Vietnamese combatants in less than four weeks, earning him a reputation as China’s “most feared war hero,” according to a Beijing Daily story published after his previous promotion.
Xi’s overhaul has focused on expanding China’s ability to project force further from its shores, in part by adopting a joint command structure similar to the U.S. The two-year-old effort has helped challenge more than 70 years of American military dominance in the Western Pacific.
The president is reducing the PLA’s overall personnel numbers by 300,000 -- mostly from the ground forces -- while adding new missile, cyberwarfare and outer-space capabilities. He has replaced the previous seven military regions with five “joint theater commands” and clarified the CMC’s leadership role.
Last month, Xi told a gathering of troops to mark the PLA’s 90th anniversary that the country must accelerate its military modernization drive because “the world isn’t safe.”
Hendrik_2000
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Amazing Kung Fu kick send the guy flying
Here is another convoy photo
Here is another convoy photo
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Amazing Kung Fu kick send the guy flying
So did this happen at the China / Indian border? Looks like the clip was shot by a drone?
Hendrik_2000
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Yup the same incident in Panggong lake close to Ladhak sector of China India border
Here is the overview of hot points along the border. there are 8 of them stretching from east to west
China has secondary road to all those hotpoint from the main highway in Tibet that is why they d't have large base in those hot point because they will be gone on the first day of hostility
So anwering your question where are those reinforcement goes?. MOst likely at the start of those road. Ladakh sector is flat land suitable for tank warfare in 62 China did push in this area
China has a base nearby
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You can see those 'amazing Kung Fu kicks' enywhere around the world on the Friday/Saturday nights... Kicking someone on the back when he's not noticing at all doesn't give you fame...
What's more - in most of the civilised coutries if it's cought on tape and brought into 'daylight' before the court it brings you some 'social hours' instead of medals. I bet it's the same in PLA.
What a bigoted response. The Indian soldier was clearly hurling rocks at the Chinese; the PLA soldier justly protected his peers from injury which was the obvious thing to do. If you're in war, shooting a soldier in the back might just save your or your friends' lives. And these techniques are not "stunts" used for "fame"; they're actual PLA training and melee tactics. But given your anti-PRC bias, you're probably not going to care anyways ...
I doubt most "civilised countries" would respond well to a foreign troop trespassing on their territory and throwing rocks at their personnel.
I'm also pretty sure that "civilised countries" will in fact reward their soldiers with medals when they fight off invaders.
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