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CHINA HAVE A DANGEROUS Army

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In April 2003, the 
Chinese Navy decided to put a large group of its best submarine talent 
on the same boat as part of an experiment to synergize its naval elite. 
The result? Within hours of leaving port, the Type 035 Ming III class 
submarine sank
 with all hands lost. Never having fully recovered from this maritime 
disaster, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is still the only 
permanent member of the United Nations Security Council never to have conducted an operational patrol with a nuclear missile submarine.<br />

China is also the only member of the UN’s “Big Five” never to have 
built and operated an aircraft carrier. While it launched a refurbished 
Ukrainian built carrier amidst much fanfare in September 2012 – 
then-President Hu Jintao and all the top brass showed up
 – soon afterward the big ship had to return to the docks for extensive 
overhauls because of suspected engine failure; not the most auspicious 
of starts for China’s fledgling “blue water” navy, and not the least 
example of a modernizing military that has yet to master last century’s 
technology.<br />

Indeed, today the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) still conducts long-distance maneuver training
 at speeds measured by how fast the next available cargo train can 
transport its tanks and guns forward. And if mobilizing and moving 
armies around on railway tracks sounds a bit antiquated in an era of 
global airlift, it should – that was how it was done in the First World 
War.<br />

Not to be outdone by the conventional army, China’s powerful strategic rocket troops, the Second Artillery Force, still uses cavalry units
 to patrol its sprawling missile bases deep within China’s vast 
interior. Why? Because it doesn’t have any helicopters. Equally scarce 
in China are modern fixed-wing military aircraft. So the Air Force 
continues to use a 1950s Soviet designed airframe,
 the Tupolev Tu-16, as a bomber (its original intended mission), a 
battlefield reconnaissance aircraft, an electronic warfare aircraft, a 
target spotting aircraft, and an aerial refueling tanker. Likewise, the 
PLA uses the Soviet designed Antonov An-12
 military cargo aircraft for ELINT (electronic intelligence) missions, 
ASW (anti-submarine warfare) missions, geological survey missions, and 
airborne early warning missions. It also has an An-12 variant specially 
modified for transporting livestock, allowing sheep and goats access to 
remote seasonal pastures.<br />

But if China’s lack of decent hardware is somewhat surprising given 
all the hype surrounding Beijing’s massive military modernization 
program, the state of “software” (military training and readiness) is 
truly astounding. At one military exercise in the summer of 2012, a 
strategic PLA unit, stressed out by the hard work of handling warheads 
in an underground bunker complex, actually had to take time out of a 15-day wartime simulation
 for movie nights and karaoke parties. In fact, by day nine of the 
exercise, a “cultural performance troupe” (common PLA euphemism for 
song-and-dance girls) had to be brought into the otherwise sealed 
facility to entertain the homesick soldiers.<br />

Apparently becoming suspicious that men might not have the emotional 
fortitude to hack it in high-pressure situations, an experimental 
all-female unit was then brought in for the 2013 iteration of the war 
games, held in May,
 for an abbreviated 72-hour trial run. Unfortunately for the PLA, the 
results were even worse. By the end of the second day of the exercise, 
the hardened tunnel facility’s psychological counseling office was 
overrun with patients, many reportedly too upset to eat and one even 
suffering with severe nausea because of the unpleasant conditions.<br />

While recent years have witnessed a tremendous Chinese propaganda effort
 aimed at convincing the world that the PRC is a serious military player
 that is owed respect, outsiders often forget that China does not even 
have a professional military. The PLA,
 unlike the armed forces of the United States, Japan, South Korea, 
Taiwan and other regional heavyweights, is by definition not a 
professional fighting force. Rather, it is a “party army,” the armed 
wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Indeed, all career officers 
in the PLA are members of the CCP and all units at the company level and
 above have political officers assigned to enforce party control. 
Likewise, all important decisions in the PLA are made by Communist Party
 committees that are dominated by political officers, not by operators. 
This system ensures that the interests of the party’s civilian and 
military leaders are merged, and for this reason new Chinese soldiers 
entering into the PLA swear their allegiance to the CCP, not to the PRC 
constitution or the people of China.<br />

This may be one reason why China’s marines (or “naval infantry” in 
PLA parlance) and other  amphibious warfare units train by landing on big white sandy beaches
 that look nothing like the west coast of Taiwan (or for that matter 
anyplace else they could conceivably be sent in the East China Sea or 
South China Sea). It could also be why PLA Air Force pilots still 
typically get less than ten hours of flight time a month (well below 
regional standards), and only in 2012 began to have the ability to 
submit their own flight plans (previously, overbearing staff officers 
assigned pilots their flight plans and would not even allow them to taxi
 and take-off on the runways by themselves).<br />

Intense and realistic training is dangerous business, and the 
American maxim that the more you bleed during training the less you 
bleed during combat doesn’t translate well in a Leninist military 
system. Just the opposite. China’s military
 is intentionally organized to bureaucratically enforce risk-averse 
behavior, because an army that spends too much time training is an army 
that is not engaging in enough political indoctrination. Beijing’s worst nightmare
 is that the PLA could one day forget that its number one mission is 
protecting the Communist Party’s civilian leaders against all its 
enemies – especially when the CCP’s “enemies” are domestic student or 
religious groups campaigning for democratic rights, as happened in 1989 and 1999, respectively.<br />
For that reason, the PLA has to engage in constant “political work”
 at the expense of training for combat. This means that 30 to 40 percent
 of an officer’s career (or roughly 15 hours per 40-hour work week) is 
wasted studying CCP propaganda, singing patriotic songs, and conducting 
small group discussions on Marxist-Leninist theory. And when PLA 
officers do train, it is almost always a cautious affair that rarely 
involves risky (i.e., realistic) training scenarios.<br />

Abraham Lincoln once observed that if he had six hours to chop down a
 tree he would spend the first four hours sharpening his axe. Clearly 
the PLA is not sharpening its proverbial axe. Nor can it. Rather, it has
 opted to invest in a bigger axe, albeit one that is still dull. 
Ironically, this undermines Beijing’s own aspirations for building a truly powerful 21st century military.<br />

Yet none of this should be comforting to China’s potential military 
adversaries. It is precisely China’s military weakness that makes it so 
dangerous. Take the PLA’s lack of combat experience, for example. A few 
minor border scraps aside, the PLA hasn’t seen real combat since the 
Korean War. This appears to be a major factor leading it to act so 
brazenly in the East and South China Seas. Indeed, China’s navy now 
appears to be itching for a fight anywhere it can find one. Experienced 
combat veterans almost never act this way. Indeed, history shows that 
military commanders that have gone to war are significantly less hawkish
 than their inexperienced counterparts. Lacking the somber wisdom that 
comes from combat experience, today’s PLA is all hawk and no dove.<br />

The Chinese military is dangerous in another way as well. Recognizing
 that it will never be able to compete with the U.S. and its allies 
using traditional methods of war fighting, the PLA has turned to 
unconventional “asymmetric” first-strike weapons and capabilities to 
make up for its lack of conventional firepower, professionalism and 
experience. These weapons include more than 1,600 offensive ballistic and cruise missiles, whose very nature is so strategically destabilizing that the U.S. and Russia decided to outlaw them with the INF Treaty some 25 years ago.<br />

In concert with its strategic missile forces, China has also developed a broad array of space weapons
 designed to destroy satellites used to verify arms control treaties, 
provide military communications, and warn of enemy attacks. China has 
also built the world’s largest army of cyber warriors, and the planet’s second largest fleet of drones,
 to exploit areas where the U.S. and its allies are under-defended. All 
of these capabilities make it more likely that China could one day be 
tempted to start a war, and none come with any built in escalation 
control.<br />

Yet while there is ample and growing evidence to suggest China could,
 through malice or mistake, start a devastating war in the Pacific, it 
is highly improbable that the PLA’s strategy could actually win a war. 
Take a Taiwan invasion scenario, which is the PLA’s top operational 
planning priority. While much hand-wringing
 has been done in recent years about the shifting military balance in 
the Taiwan Strait, so far no one has been able to explain how any 
invading PLA force would be able to cross over 100 nautical miles of 
exceedingly rough water and successfully land on the world’s most 
inhospitable beaches, let alone capture the capital and pacify the rest 
of the rugged island.<br />

The PLA simply does not have enough transport ships to make the 
crossing, and those it does have are remarkably vulnerable to Taiwanese anti-ship cruise missiles, guided rockets, smart cluster munitions, mobile artillery and advanced sea mines – not to mention its elite corps of American-trained
 fighter and helicopter pilots. Even if some lucky PLA units could 
survive the trip (not at all a safe assumption), they would be rapidly 
overwhelmed by a small but professional Taiwan military that has been 
thinking about and preparing for this fight for decades.<br />

Going forward it will be important for the U.S. and its allies to recognize that China’s military is in many ways much weaker than it looks.
 However, it is also growing more capable of inflicting destruction on 
its enemies through the use of first-strike weapons. To mitigate the 
destabilizing effects of the PLA’s strategy, the U.S. and its allies 
should try harder to maintain their current (if eroding)
 leads in military hardware. But more importantly, they must continue 
investing in the training that makes them true professionals. While 
manpower numbers are likely to come down in the years ahead due to 
defense budget cuts, regional democracies will have less to fear from 
China’s weak but dangerous military if their axes stay sharp.<br />
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CHINA HAVE A DANGEROUS Army

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<b>New Delhi: </b>
            On New Year's Day 2014, India's 1st Mountain Strike Corps 
has been launched, designed for mountain warfare along the border with 
China.<br /><br />A Corps is the largest fighting formation in the Indian 
Army with troops usually numbering 40,000 to 60,000 directly coming 
under its command.<br /><br />India has 13 full-fledged Corps out of which 
three--1, 2 and 21-- are designated as Strike Corps for an offensive 
against Pakistan. The new Corps allows India to plug the gap in its 
preparedness along the China border both in the Northern and Eastern 
Sectors<br /><br />The eventual strength of the Corps is meant to be 80,000
 troops. The Corps is currently headquartered in Ranchi in Jharkhand, 
but is expected to move to Panagarh in West Bengal.  The move will 
happen after the infrastructure needed in Bengal is developed -that 
includes training area, ammunition dumps, barracks and location for 
various units including infantry, artillery, army aviation, signals, 
ordnance, and supply formations.<br /><br />The latest Corps of the army 
has a budget of 64,000 crores over seven years.  The new mountain Corps 
will require light artillery which can be easily airlifted to the 
highest mountains. Given India's painfully-slow process of weapons 
acquisition, empowering the Mountain Strike Corps quickly will be a big 
challenge<br /><br />At least six C-130J aircraft of the Indian Air Force 
will be attached to the Corps at Panagarh. The C-130J is a versatile 
medium-lift transport aircraft which can transport at a time up to 200 
fully-equipped soldiers from the Parachute or Special Forces regiments.</div>

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Breaking News India Want to resolve boundary dispute with China

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A pact with China to maintain peace along the line 
of actual control will be India’s topmost priority when Prime Minister 
Manmohan Singh lands in Beijing on Tuesday.<br />

The landmark Border Defence Cooperation Agreement, aimed at 
maintaining status quo and stability along the nearly 4,057 km of line 
of actual control (LAC), mandates no shooting at or even tailing of each
 other’s patrols and provides for setting up of a hotline between 
Director General of Military Operations of the two countries on the 
lines of the mechanism that India has with Pakistan. wSingh is also 
expected to discuss with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang additional 
confidence building measures for peace along the LAC.<br />

India is seeking a deeper involvement of Chinese army in resolving 
the boundary dispute, which remains the biggest irritant in bilateral 
ties, with both sides sticking to their divergent stands.<br />

According to external affairs ministry officials, who did not wish to
 be named, Chinese troops started transgressing into the Indian 
territory after the government decided to create a mountain corps of 
Indian Army, and deploy a Sukhoi squadron and reactive advanced landing 
grounds in the border states. Earlier this year, there was a threeweek 
standoff between Indian and Chinese troops 30 km southeast of Daulat Beg
 Oldi in Ladakh.<br />

Settlement of the boundary dispute remains an uphill task, evident 
from the efforts required to reach a consensus on the pact. “The two 
sides exchanged three to four drafts of BDCM before it could be 
finalised,” Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Professor Srikanth Kondapalli,
 a noted China expert told ET. “While India insisted on equal security 
along the LAC, the Chinese side called for demobilization of troops by 
20 km by both countries along the boundary.<br />

India is already at a disadvantage, with China placed at higher 
altitude in the Tibetan region ,” said Kondapalli . India and China are 
currently holding negotiations across the three sectors of LAC. The LAC 
traverses western (Ladakh, Kashmir), middle ( Uttarakhand, Himachal) and
 eastern (Sikkim, Arunachal) sectors. The term LAC gained legal 
recognition in Sino-Indian pacts signed in 1993 and 1996.<br />

The 1996 pact stated, “No activities of either side shall overstep 
the line of actual control.” India alleges that China has illegally 
occupied 38,000 sq km in J&K (Aksai Chin). At the heart of 
Sino-Indian boundary dispute is the issue of Arunachal Pradesh (90,000 
sq km), which China describes as “Southern Tibet”. China is demanding 
that at least the Tawang tract of Arunachal should be transferred to 
China before any settlement of dispute.<br />

To bolster disputed status of J&K and Arunachal, China had issued
 stapled visas to the residents of these two states. China has also 
emphasized that the Sikkim issue will be resolved with the border 
dispute, a position very different from the earlier understanding that 
Beijing had accepted Sikkim as part of India.<br />

A section of the Indian establishment believes that Beijing wants to 
delay resolution of the dispute by another two decades. These officials 
say the Chinese believe they will be decisively ahead of India by 
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China’s Warning To America

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to Indian media, China has warned America in case of their attack on Pakistan.
China will intervene this attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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media is not happy with that as they consider it as the power of China because
now they have threatened World’s super power to avoid any possible attack on
Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was a time when western
countries were beating down China’s door attempting to sell it weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AM General, the original
manufacturer of the ubiquitous <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pakistannavy.blogspot.com/">Humvee</a> </span>tactical<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://pakistannavy.blogspot.com/">vehicle</a></span></u>, attempted to
sell the Humvee to the Chinese military in the late 1980s. At the time, it was
claimed the Chinese thought the vehicles were too big and heavy, which was
probably true. Another issue was likely the high cost — at $21,000 each,
Humvees were not cheap and China was not yet rich.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Persian Gulf War made the
previously low-key Humvee famous, and China studied the war extensively. It was
then that the People’s Liberation Army concluded that their “People’s War”
doctrine of overwhelming the enemy with numbers was well and truly dead, and
the future relied upon technology and mobility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AM General had <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pakistannavy.blogspot.com/">left behind a
free Humvee while wooing China</a></span></u>, and several civilian models were
purchased under the guise of equipment for oil exploration. According to <i>Car
News China</i>, these vehicles, and the gift Humvee, were disassembled and
reverse-engineered. The result was the EQ2050 Mengshi tactical vehicle, which
is apparently no longer too big or too heavy for China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Naturally there were complications
in making copies, but this time an American company appeared complicit. The
Mengshi’s diesel engine was built by U.S. firm Cummins, but the Tiananmen
Square arms embargo meant that American companies couldn’t sell China engines
destined for military vehicles. So, China imported the Cummins engines for a civilian
version of the Mengshi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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