China's strength is artillery .... they have absorbed the
lessons and doctrine of the red army well ...
and I'd hesitate to discount their tanks ... their lazer research
is top notch and picking up pace while the russians and the
americans have slacken off after the cold war ... as to fire
control systems and electronics, well ... counter measures is their
strength, from lazer "dazzlers" to light weapons designed to blind
electro-optics instruments and local EMP weapons ... they know
their weaknesses, and know their adversaries' weak spots as well
... (recall the shooting down of one of their own weather satellite
recently ? )
in the end, a war on land boils down to pretty a pure numerical
equation, they are supreme on land ... that's why they feel
comfortable enough to focus on "fighting a localized war in
high-tech conditions" (read: an amphibous ops to retake taiwan, and
subjugate the spratleys) ...
in anycase, for sure numbers alone, the PLA trumps any other land
force in terms of hardware and warm bodies ... while uncle sam
bleeds itself dry and guts her land forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
...
in 20 years I think if I'd like to visit the spratleys again to
fish (fark, the fishing is out of this world there), I'd have to
book my trip via a chinese company, instead of the current
malaysian one ...
