PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

plawolf

plawolf

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Wrought said:
Lithuania with some buyer's remose. However as noted in the thread, there is not likely to be any way back for a variety of institutional and inertial reasons. Spilled milk and all that.

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This is a classic example of why having an idiotic revisionist history that blows unearned smoke up your own arse can really come back and bite you hard in the arse.

Lithuanians taken enormous pride in being the first state to break away from the USSR. They view themselves as the first domino that collapsed the USSR and it’s a rather central pillar to modern Lithuanian national identity.

This was the main psychological reason they were so keen to be the first to test China’s red lines. Think recon they could be the first domino to China’s collapse as well.

Even now they have not really learnt the right lessons, as they lament others not following their glorious example instead of objecting examining what the actual fuck they were trying to do in the first place. If the whole EU followed suit and call Taiwan Taiwan, what would it have actually changed or achieved? Would it have made the PLA go poof in a magical cloud of wishful thinking?
 
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Brainsuker

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RoastGooseHKer said:
But if the main reason of Zhang’s removal were his political difference with Xi regarding Taiwan and reluctance to fight the Americans, then his punishment should have been dismissal only whilst keeping his Party membership and pension. Just have him retire and go teach basic combat in a military academy or work in a policy think tank.

The removal of Zhang in such humiliating fashion not only weakens China’s deterrence, but also degrades PLA’s moral since Zhang is one of the few former flag officers with in-depth combat experience. Professional officers with valuable combat experience like him are what average soldiers and frontline officers look up to as role models. It is a huge loss for China.
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So what was zhang in vietnam war? A general, a colonel? A battalion commander? Or an infantryman? His position would determined his experience value for PLA. If it is only a rifleman, I think zhang wont be the only one in PLA. So dont worry so much
 
bsdnf

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Brainsuker said:
So what was zhang in vietnam war? A general, a colonel? A battalion commander? Or an infantryman? His position would determined his experience value for PLA. If it is only a rifleman, I think zhang wont be the only one in PLA. So dont worry so much
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started as an infantry company commander, and then rose to the rank of regimental commander. After the Battle of Laoshan, he was promoted to deputy division commander.
 
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GulfLander

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The Chinese mainland on Thursday praised the think tank forum held earlier this week in Beijing between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party. A spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said the forum demonstrated a shared commitment to peace and people-centered cooperation. CGTN's Zheng Yibing reports on the resumption of interparty exchanges that had been suspended for nearly a decade
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RoastGooseHKer

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bsdnf said:
started as an infantry company commander, and then rose to the rank of regimental commander. After the Battle of Laoshan, he was promoted to deputy division commander.
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Combining Zhang’s experience from Laoshan with infantry warfare lessons from Ukraine would have been a pretty solid training menu for rookie infantries.
 
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