Inside China’s People’s Liberation Army | Preparing For Dangerous Storms - Part 1 | CNA Documentary

Mr. Denny Roy: "Chinese wants to be a military power. She is not satisfied to be just a economic power...." Let me educate Mr. Roy on that point. Chinese did try to be a economic power without military power. It is called the Qing Dynasty. We all know what happened. China learned the lesson well.

This help me understand China better. I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zheng He came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China. -C L “Christopher Columbus didn’t discover anything, instead he just got lost” -Tasia Grzenia 💐

Here is the English translation: As a Chinese, I can clearly tell the world that the criteria to judge whether the ruling party and leader of a country are good or bad are firstly, whether they can protect the safety of citizens both domestically and overseas, and secondly, whether their policies can effectively improve the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of common people. Our ruling party may not be perfect, but they have been working hard and striving. As the population of the largest country in the world, being able to lift over 800 million people out of poverty and hardship, instead of through launching wars and plundering foreign countries, is already an amazing achievement. We are rising peacefully, benefiting domestic people and also providing the whole world with quality inexpensive goods. Over 90% of our ethnic group is Han, but we never oppress or exploit the 10% ethnic minorities. On the contrary, ethnic minorities in China receive more support from the state. We are not jealous or envious, because they are also Chinese, only of different ethnicities. We Chinese people love our country, and love our Party even more, because they have led the formerly 400 million compatriots to gradually move from poverty to a well-off life step by step. Our Party may still have this or that problem, but looking from history, they have always been leading us to move forward instead of backward. Therefore, we will be tolerant and trusting of it.

May the good Lord continue to bless PRC

I hope there will be no war.... It's so ironic, in order for others not to bully you, you must display power.

It’s not the party put itself in a situation that it has to reunify with Taiwan, it is the reflection of the Chinese people will to reunify their country.

CNA never mention 900 US military bases all over the world yet asks the Chinese guy about the chances of war?

In chinese it means "army is disciplined and under command", they subtitle says "ensure army obey the party", wow the magic of words, uhh?

As a Chinese, it is the Communist Party that leads the people of the whole country to break free from colonialism, move towards independence and development, and transform from a weak country into the world's second largest economy. No one can separate the CPC from the Chinese people. The Party represents the interests of all Chinese people. We also support the CPC.

Im a Chinese and let me give two points to correct the two western speaker's opinion. 1. While no single army of the world respresent 100% of its country 's population, 90+% population of China satisfy CCP, so PLA's obedience to CCP is naturally represent the country 2. . CCP giving up of Taiwan is representing the continuous of centry humiliation, then CCP cannot represent the Chinese people at all. So renunited Taiwan is not an investing of Xie, but is a must of his job.

Grand Mothers can be dangerous, it was an impressive fireworks show. The intelligence gathered was priceless.

That is a great saying if you don't want the water to boil don't throw wood in the fire I think that says it all

Superb documentary, Thanks!

China is the largest trading nation in the world. It is the largest Economy in the world in PPP terms...and likely to be the largest by 2027 in nominal terms. Why is it wrong for the largest economy to have a Military befitting its economic size...or should it still have the military capability of Rwanda..? to be called a Peacefull Country.. China only allocates less than 1.7 % of its GDP to Defense ..less than US 3.4%,India 2.6 % and even Singapore at 3%. The US has chilled NATO countries for spending not enough on their defence and has targetted NATO countries to allocate 2% of their GDP for defence. If this is so ,China in REALITY IS UNDERALLOCATING FUNDS FOR ITS DEFENSE... China has not Fought a Single War or Arm Conflict for the last 45 years and is called a potential war instigator..by the West and its Allies..whereas US and its Allies has been involve in not less than 30?40?Wars...bombings,regime change..etc etc ..in the same 45 years...has a Free Pass... It sure cannot be logical and somehow the West( Superiority complex ?) depict that China ( for the matter of fact India, Indonesia etc ) are not entittle to have the largest military in the world to correspond to its land size,its population,its industrial might,Economy and Trading Scale... If you are the world largest Economy ..why cant you also have the world largest military..to protect your interest? All Superpowers Are Bullies to a certain degree from the Romans to the Spanish ,French ,German ,British, Japan, and US.. But the biggest and scariest difference today is that Superpowers can end the Human specie unilaterally....so lets not provoke and "add wood to the Fire" . We must recognize MULTIPOLARITY and the back and front yard concept for Each superpower ....or we all end up with no YARD.. This is the only Approach for the world to last a few more peacefull generations..before we annihiliate each other..

I love watching this type of documentary, Very well done😮

Recruitment of graduates into PLA can only suggest that defense in the coming years will be extremely high-tech.

Wow.. I’m floored that Pearl Forss could speak such excellent Chinese.. excellent documentary by her and the CNA team.

Wise men seeks no war

There is a point I won't go beyond

A modern army that guards peace as strong as any, even the enemy will respect them !