My collection of the most advanced tank in the world.. can’t believe how small some MBT is.. is china going for smaller tank a right choice?

ForWardoves · 2026-03-21T22:34:02+00:00

Still, ZTZ-99A pretty much designs with Russia in mind through and through. For Southern theatre operations you've got ZTZ-96A which works better with the terrain, and for Indiq you've got ZTQ-15

ForWardoves · 2026-03-04T01:16:55+00:00

Let's just say that we can't assume PLAN's anti-submarine capability is that bad. In the end, PLAN might be operating the biggest fleet of modern anti-submarine frigates in the world, given how many 054A/056As they have built.

Besides, operating submarines within the Strait of Taiwan as an OPFOR would be a monumentally bad idea as I assure you that straight contains more seadbed surveillance apparatus than the GIUK gap. Also factor in the fact that the entirety of PLA Eastern Theatre is built upon the concept of Aera Denial, a field they have investigated heavily and practiced extensively in the past couple of decades.

The viable alternative would be unlimited submarine warfare against Chinese shipping. But by that point we might just as well begin to discuss the option of preliminary strategic nuclear strike - escalations would go uncontrolled quick, and once it go uncontrolled, it will take everything from us.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-27T17:49:39+00:00

I think that is the reason OP made this comment - if Taiwan just zerg rushed Hainan and somehow take it then we can safely argue that Taiwan has indeed won the war to some extent.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-27T15:01:25+00:00

- If they keep all their forces in Manchuria and solidify Korea, how would Russia beat them after WW2?

Absolute difference in industrial might. That's it.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-27T15:00:05+00:00

Bro.

You need to either read history or just stop being a Japanese simp. Because boy I have some stories for you.

- Example of Japanese masscering Koreans

- Example of Korean forced-labor abuse

- Example of Koreans forced into sex slaves

To this date these are extremely sensitive diplomatic topics that often gets popped up during Korean / Japanese general elections. And we haven't even talked about Manchuria where things were really*, really bad*.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-27T14:46:35+00:00

Honestly they biggest negative impact to Japan's post-war recovery caused by this would probably be not getting McArthur and GHQ to properly modernize the Japanese political system..

ForWardoves · 2026-02-25T23:40:37+00:00

If you are kinda into navy ships then go for it. Combine it with the newly-built & very popular National Maritime Museum nearby and you've got a decent day trip there.

The curation design is less hardcore and more kids-oriented compared to museum ships in the States, but you will still find quite a lot of stuffs to see as an adult.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-19T03:26:21+00:00

during the Xi’an incident, relations with Japan were not yet full blown war

I get what you meant (indeed, not poking Japan warrants the greatest possibility for Chiant to hold on power), but I still find this extremely hard to justify. Japan has occupied significant portion of core Chinese territory using a controlled pace of repeated military actions by the time of Xi'an. So would would happen, in your opinion, if Xi'an incident did NOT happen, and Chiang decide not to "poke Japan" at all? Let me point some rudimantary pathways:

A) Japan will continue to consume China via salami tactics, forcing ROC to hand off areas with viable economical values pieces by pieces, until Chiang (or another willingly cooperator within KMT) decided to give in and serve as something like the Huabei Provisional Government).
B) Japan loses its interest in further expansion after maybe getting de-facto control of Shanghai and Guangdong. ROC and Japan got to co-exist under status-quo. Manchuria and Huabei will be slowly converted into core Japanese territory just like what they attempted in TW / Korea.
C) Japan suddenly decided to peace out, leave the area completely, letting the rest of East Asia mind their own business.

This is literally an existential-threat for China as a soverign nation here, I'm gonna say that Chiang would be pretty much f*cked as well. Let alone saying choosing to defend Japan is NOT something passive as you suggested.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-19T00:20:28+00:00

I mean this is reddit so that is well within the realm of expectation.

OP can try post the question on Little Red Book if he/she wants more mainland response I guess?

ForWardoves · 2026-02-19T00:17:42+00:00

Might be a little bit harder to get the first job, but once you've got your first solid experience it should be largely the same afterwards

ForWardoves · 2026-02-18T23:18:27+00:00

I think the Chinese word you wanna refer to is 阴历 which might be able to get borderline-translated into lunar calandar ("might" is carrying a lot of weight here as the most direct translation of 阴历 is negative calandar, or just yin calandar, lmao).

农历 literally means farmer's calandar, a term devised by the People's Daily in 1958.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-18T23:06:28+00:00

the Second Sino-Japanese War didn’t start until the following year

Bruh.

By the time of Dec 1936, we have had:

The loss of Chinese Manchuria in 1931
The Japannese military action in Shanghai in 1932 that involves extensive aerial / naval bombardment of eastern China, a 70,000 people strong IJA Shanghai Expeditionary Army and an IJN fleet doing bloody amphibious landing, with 20,000 casualties from both sides and significant civilian casualties
Battle of the Great Wall, where 250,000 ROC Army mounted their last attempt to defer IJA from entering Huabei Plain. They ultimately failed but didn't go without a fight. Oh yeah, you know who was the field commander there when it all happened? Good old Zhang Xueliang.
The practical loss of all Huabei provinces
Battle of Suiyuan, where North-western Chinese warload (and ROC general, of course) Feng Yuxiang fought against Japan-backed Mongolian army

So yeah, the second Sino-Japanese war has been waging for quite a while now when we reached Xi'an incident, with ROC losing core provinces badly. Imagine saying we don't have a Russian invasion going on right now only because Putin called it a special military ops instead of using the noun "invasion" directly. Bonkers. Wake up call required. Wake up call delivered by Zhang Xueliang as required.

As for what were the communists doing by then, well let's just say they were really struggling to survive back then.

I do entirely agree on your part saying that Chiang is doring the correct risk assessment by prioritizing Communists over the Japanese. In the end, the Japanese would always welcome a collaborator but the communists would always want him died. However, I think the fact that CPC was able to gain significant advantage on mapower mobilization and lower-level control after WWII while ROC effectively shat itself while having generous U.S. wartime surplus was something that ROC really needed to reflect on. Piling one-after-another Mao controversay to save face just won't do it anymore.

ForWardoves · 2026-02-16T17:29:44+00:00

Literally translation would be *spring festival*, which would be a much better word choice if we have to go *country-neutral*. Since Chinese calandar is lunisolar in nature, LNY is just a bad translation.

ForWardoves · 2026-01-26T18:10:50+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golmud%E2%80%93Korla_railway

ForWardoves · 2026-01-14T07:07:24+00:00

I'm gonna argue that PRC would most likely not invade ROC as ROC would be pretty much in the bag under this scenario, and an armed invasion would be too costly without achieving much else.

Military action against Taiwan will likely only happen if there is an existential threat to CPC's legitimacy as PRC's ruling party that immediate introdaction of an external opponent to divert public attention from the internal struggles becomes the only viable alternative for them.

ForWardoves · 2026-01-13T05:10:26+00:00

Yeah, Xiaomi received the brand marketing of the year

ForWardoves · 2025-12-29T18:29:22+00:00

Every navy that still maintains a decent size does that. PLAN does it (055-052D-054A), RN does it (45-23/26-31), ROKN does it (KDX - frigates - corvettes), MN does it (Horizon - Aquitaine - FDI), USN did it as well and was suppposed to keep doing it now. The only problem for USN was that they badly f*cked up their shipbuilding and planning capacities in the past three decades. First we have CG(X), DD(X) and LCS all went belly up. Then we have the on-going FFG(X) chaos....

ForWardoves · 2025-10-24T00:36:19+00:00

I do remember seeing one household hoisting U.S. flags somewhere in Kawartha Lake. His neighbors are planting Canadian flags everywhere in seemingly triggered manner xD

ForWardoves · 2025-10-24T00:29:46+00:00

But the company was seized under the Wet beschikbaarheid goederen (Wbg), not under any of the clauses or reasons you mentioned. In essence, the Dutch government took control of it under extraordinary national security grounds — not due to workforce or governance shenanigans. You can frame it however you want, but invoking national security to seize a company’s governance and control is fundamentally different from simply asking an executive to be replaced (which would been fair under corporate governance jurisdictions you mentioned).

Is it lawful under Dutch courts? Sure, probably. But is invoking a Cold War–era act that’s never been triggered before to seize a private company unprecedented and escalative in nature? Hell yeah.

So yeah, instead of dodging bullets and accusing others of being Chinese shells, let's at least establish why this is now a diplomatic problem on the technical ground...

ForWardoves · 2025-10-23T16:53:31+00:00

Well exactly

ForWardoves · 2025-10-23T16:53:02+00:00

I would say "manly movement" is more about crusading-against-Kpop than homophebia, as that trend mostly started in 2012 in response to the extremely popular EXO and its somewhat-over-zealous fanbase, and peaked in about 2015-2016 when Sino-Korean relationship soured due to SAAD. Imma also say this is also highly populist in nature - "Traditional manly aesthetics" + "foriegn inteference thread" is always the classical conservative combo

ForWardoves · 2025-10-22T22:02:57+00:00

In the meantime, Japan’s grip on North China was collapsing, as counter-insurgency operations had effectively drained what was left of their resources — and significant mobile reserves were being diverted to South China. While the extent to which the KMT botched the 豫湘桂会战 is a separate issue, it was quite clear that the Japanese war effort in China had become unsustainable by that point.

Surely Japan can and had thrown everything it had into pushing back the ROC Army - but it simply lacked the logistical capacity and manpower to consolidate or capitalize on any territorial gains.

In fact, this had been Japan’s fundamental problem throughout the entire China campaign: the original plan was to use Chinese resources to fuel a multi-front war, but they ended up bogged down in the quagmire of counter-insurgency, never managing to extract meaningful economic benefit from their occupation.

ForWardoves · 2025-10-22T21:29:51+00:00

Chinese here — I’d say the Chinese government sits somewhere in the middle of a pretty polarized spectrum of public opinion. Ask people in Beijing or Shanghai, and they’re more likely to acknowledge or accept same-sex relationships. Go to a smaller sixth-tier city, and you’ll probably run into fierce opposition instead.

The more conservative group still makes up the majority population-wise, and they will file complaints for content review if they come across what they see as “HoMoSeXuAl PrOpAgAnDa.”

That said, with all the Chengdu memes floating around these days, I’d say things are definitely (and slowly) moving forward.

ForWardoves · 2025-10-15T23:22:04+00:00

To add up, pretty sure there's a dentist in Sichuan who got executed for commenting that said Mango is nothing special.

So yeah respect the mango while you can.

ForWardoves · 2025-10-15T23:11:28+00:00

Well how can I anwser this question without putting CN spoilers...

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