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  1. Both, Russia and China suffer from the very same weaknesses, and in China they might be even worse.
    1) Corruption: the numbers on the papers do not reflect reality, in addition to terrible quality control
    2) Military Doctrine: throwing a Million "Volunteers" into the meat-grinder doesn't work with low birth-rate and quickly ageing countries
    3) Lack of Innovation and overreliance on foreign (i.e. Western) technology
    In the end, the bad performance of the russian Military in Ukraine, reflects deficiencies in the military capabilities of China as well.

    That said… China would also profit from Russia failing. A failed Russia in dire need of rebuilding would thoroughly deliver the country into China's grasp… even so far that Russia might be coerced to "return" Outer Manchuria (a.k.a. Primorsky Krai or Outer North-East… the area around Vladivostok) to China.

  2. I wish someone would address Taiwan striking the 3 gorges dam in retaliation for an invasion. They've been producing missiles capable of hitting it since atleast 2016; and it was in development since 1996…

  3. The Chinese Communist Party has NEVER controlled Taiwan, therefore "reunification" is impossible. What is really going on is a continuation of the civil war that paused when one of the last two standing warlords managed to get to Taiwan and the other couldn't quite get there. Therefore, Taiwan has as much claim to the mainland as the mainland has on the islands controlled by the government in Taiwan. Just like Ukraine claimed independence from the Soviet Union and now the successor to the soviets wants to recreate the Russian Empire – Russia can lose big…

  4. Russia has been very ineffective because it's got a weak economy, much of which is funded by fossil fuels and other natural resources, in other words, outsiders buying what they have, that's a problem for Russia when so much growth is by external means, it means the economy is much weaker than it seems on the surface, and is quite dependent on others buying what they have, which can change at any given moment.

    At the end of the day, most in the west at least were looking at Russia power from a historical perspective, basically, the Soviet Union days, but Russia is nothing like that now, they have a weak economy that's in-between the size of Spain and Italy, they have a declining population and going on its military performance in Ukraine, they've got a military that's much weaker than many expected, but it was painfully clear to see that Russia is quite weak, after all, the economy is the real power in today's world, the bigger that is, the stronger the country is, especially if backed by a big population and skilled workforce, the ones that really have that is the EU, US and China.

    Which brings us onto China, they've got the core resources needed to be far bigger of a power, they've got a much bigger economy, they've got the population size and they also seem far better when it comes to high-tech compared to Russia, so as much as China might fear Russia performance, their own performance is a different story, and we already know the US fears China, hence all the rumbles going around with US-China relations, it's called fear from the US of a rising China, but with that said, China has its own issues and that's one of trust, most of the world don't trust them with the current political system they've got, that's probably the only edge the west needs to keep China in check, and the irony is, China would be a far bigger threat to the US if China were a democracy.

  5. The only "failure" is the failure of Ukraine to save itself from playing the part of sacrificial lamb for NATO. They'd rather keep getting their citizens killed than accept a reasonable peace deal.

  6. I'd kinda argue Russia has already lost its status. Even if it wins, they had to use SO much time, money, equipment, and men that, nukes aside, its hard for any country with an established military to fully take them seriously I feel like, so long as they can procure US equipment. Like, you can't not be scared just because of how ruthless Putin is and how willing he is to just throw men into the meat grinder to defeat you…but it seems like, so long as you're even somewhat prepared and equipped, you can hold out. Even if Russia wins tomorrow hypothetically, they can NOT afford a second Ukrain. They will either not take aggressive action towards another former USSR state for quite some time, and/or do a complete overhaul of their military, which will also take time. The Russian bear is declawed, defanged, and is about to lay down for hibernation one way or another.

    China has effectively already lost their partner to an extent

  7. Russia launch its operation to reunite part of Russian speaking in Donbass regions who voted for reunification and they really took in action . They've done what they aim for now why is they lost ? 🙄

  8. The Uyghur population has grown almost 40% in the last 20 years. You really think the Chinese are that bad at genocide? 😂
    The crackdown was a result of nearly 200 terrorist attacks by Muslim fundamentalists. China built schools in response. When the US was attacked by the same ideaology once, they occupied the wrong country for two decades.

  9. When Russia loses this war with Ukraine, I think there’s a good chance that China will take back the area that Russia took from China 200 years ago. I believe it’s northern Manchuria. That said actually taking that area from Russia would very likely provoke a nuclear war.

  10. Even if Russia were to collapse into civil war, its oil companies would become even more important political centres and they'd hire mercenaries to defend the pipelines. Russia is little more than a mafia petrostate and there's always huge demand for oil and gas.

  11. The most difficult part of an invasion is sustaining logistics to support the attacking force. It ranges from 26 to 30 miles from England to Europe. China to Taiwan is a little over 100 miles. Sustaining food, fuel, equipment and weapons over that long of a distance of ocean will be very difficult even if you have experience. We laid fuel lines across the channel to floating harbors we built and that was about 1/4 the distance China will have to traverse with fuel lines and that is just one of the many challenges they have to overcome.

  12. The Australian government has informed China to not get too friendly with Russia. The belt and road initiative is dead…. Australia proudly supports Ukraine. Slava Ukraini…. ✌️ 🤘 ⚖️ 🇺🇦🇦🇺 Again the content omits or over states information.

  13. Russia had functional control of all the Oblasts they annexed (but never fully occupied) in 2022. Corrupt officials let them simply walk in. Even then, Russia botched their invasion.

  14. This is a shil channel, Don't know if you have been paying attention, Russia is layting a smack down on Ukraine, even with ALL of the western countries supplies arms and money to Ukraine.

  15. The West is completely united and unwavering in its alliance. Russia, China, and other non-western nations waver. That’s why China is worried. They know the West is extremely solid and organized.

  16. China made some huge mistakes in the past decades but the biggest one must've been linking themselves to ruzzia. Their agressive stance towards the EU and US makes it impossible to turn around now, they're in a dead end street unless they change their political course and leaders.

  17. Russia failing in Ukraine could work out well for China.
    Russia gets a bailout in the form of long term very high interest loans from China that can only be repaid in resources at below market value.

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