Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Chinese navy exploding in numbers: More ships AND tonnage than US Navy?" video.

  1.  @dariomladenovski7047  China can make quality products, but at quality prices. High prices and specialization don't exactly market well to a Communist government who are attracted to low-cost multifunction products.
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  2. But good luck inviting the former customers to resume peaceful trading with China, right as it enters a downward slide of unreversed aging, overleveraged debts, and widespread industrial pollution. China already relies on imports to feed itself because its own soils and waters are too contaminated, on top of all the uncontrolled use of chemical preservatives and accelerants on their farms and ranches.
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  3. We also learned that casual combatants with improvised weapons can still defeat the political objectives of a modern military. A booby trap inside the home can kill just as well as an fancy automatic turret outside, and this is ultimately what we're making the CPC fear with Táiwān as they recently see with Ukraine and Afghanistan. They're trying to modernize their military to try to keep out our superior global logistics capabilities, because the better we can supply their opposition, the more obvious their weaknesses and defeat becomes... and the unrest stirred among the Chinese people back home could bring a dramatic downfall of the current Mainland government from within as people realize the core Party is no better than the local officials they already complain about.
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  4. They're likely having second thoughts after seeing how effective an externally-supplied insurgency is against a modern occupier -- Ukraine has NATO, and Afghanistan is surrounded by anti-US supporters.
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