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Title: Most Chinese Say Their Military Can Crush America in Battle
Source: The National Interest
URL Source: http://www.nationalinterest.org/blo ... can-crush-america-battle-12414
Published: Mar 14, 2015
Author: Zachery Keck
Post Date: 2015-03-14 13:37:26 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 22138
Comments: 95

The vast majority of Chinese citizens believe the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could seize islands in the East and South China Seas, even if the U.S. military were to intervene in the conflicts.

No less than 87 percent of respondents said that the Chinese military already possessed the capability to take back the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands from Japan, according to a recent public opinion poll. When asked whether they still believed the PLA could achieve this objective if the U.S. intervened in the conflict, 74 percent said yes.

The numbers were much the same for the South China Sea. When asked whether they believed the PLA could militarily take back disputed islands in the South China Sea, 85.6 percent of respondents said that China’s military could achieve this objective. Even if the U.S. military intervened on behalf of the Southeast Asian nations, about 73 percent of respondents said they still believed the Chinese military would prevail.

These were just some of the results of a recent survey published by Andrew Chubb and the Perth USAsia Centre (h/t ASPI’s The Strategist), entitled: “Exploring China’s ‘Maritime Consciousness’ Public Opinion on the South and East China Sea Disputes.” The poll, which was the first in what will be an annual poll on Chinese views of the island disputes, was based on phone interviews conducted with 1,413 adult residents of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changsha and Chengdu.

Despite the confidence in their country’s military’s capabilities, a slight majority of respondents said they did not want to go to war over disputed islands in either the South or East China Seas. When asked whether it was in China’s national interest to use military force to take back the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, which Japan administers but Beijing also claims, 55.5 percent of respondents said that it was not. Just over 33 percent disagreed while the rest were unsure or didn’t answer.

Fifty-four percent of respondents agreed that it was not in China’s interest to use military force to take back disputed islands in the South China Sea, compared to 33.5 percent who disagreed. The rest were unsure or did not answer.

The survey participants also didn’t rank the island disputes as particularly important compared with many domestic issues. When the pollsters presented participants with a list of nine issues and asked them to choose the five most important, around 51 percent of respondents selected “island issues with neighboring countries” as one of their choices. Corruption, rich-poor disparity, food and drug safety, moral issues and environmental pollution all ranked higher. Notably, however, the island disputes ranked considerably higher than reunification with Taiwan, which only 22 percent of respondents selected as among their top five issues.

The overwhelming belief that the PLA would prevail in a conflict with the United States in the East or South China Seas could make it easier for Chinese leaders to gain support for aggressive policies. At the same time, it could very well make Party leaders more weary of actually initiating a conflict, given the domestic repercussions for them if China is defeated.


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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)

Most Chinese Say Their Military Can Crush America in Battle

They're right. They have competence, determination, seriousness, and superior numbers working for them. Americans have a population of babyfied soft pussys from top to bottom.

rlk  posted on  2015-03-14   20:09:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: rlk (#1)

. Americans have a population of babyfied soft pussys from top to bottom.

Good. The world would be better off with a weak America that does not sow destruction and revolution overseas.

Pericles  posted on  2015-03-14   22:28:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Pericles (#2)

Good. The world would be better off with a weak America

We don't even have the strength to kill our convicted Baby rapers and child molesters, because they didn't "kill anyone"... we, as a nation, have been pussified.

We are as weak as you desire us.

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-03-14   22:38:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: GrandIsland (#3)

We are as weak as you desire us.

Not yet. But the world would be better off when America is kicked out overseas and forced to come home and guard her borders. There won't be peace in the world (there never will be) but there won't be the USA doing what it did to the Arab world which has helped the rise of ISIS and other evils by the vacuum created by American intervention.

Pericles  posted on  2015-03-14   22:45:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Pericles (#4)

There won't be peace in the world (there never will be) but there won't be the USA doing what it did to the Arab world which has helped the rise of ISIS and other evils by the vacuum created by American intervention.

Don't blame America. The Arabs dd it to themselves when they took up islam long before America existed.

rlk  posted on  2015-03-14   23:49:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: rlk (#5) (Edited)

Don't blame America. The Arabs dd it to themselves when they took up islam long before America existed.

Proves my point America can't be involved in the world because its people don't understand the world. Like the president of the USA (a supposed Harvard grad) who starts a war in an Arab Muslim country not knowing the difference between Shia and Sunni - something I learned in High School Social Studies history class.

Pericles  posted on  2015-03-15   1:24:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Pericles (#6)

Proves my point America can't be involved in the world because its people don't understand the world.

What an ignorant statement. Americans don't understand the world huh.

No you don't understand America. Quit whining.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-03-15   8:31:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: A K A Stone, Pericles (#7)

To Pericles: No you don't understand America

Do you believe in a doctrine of American Exceptionalism?

A Pole  posted on  2015-03-15   11:20:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: A Pole (#10) (Edited)

American Exceptionalism

Liberals hate that term. They don't want anything exceptional... cause that would mean less exceptional people exist. That puts a wrench in the equality machine... and hurts those feelings that drives your liberal urges.

I thought I'd break the term down... before you spin it into exemptionalism.

Now, being one of LF's more liberal posters (Pericles and Willie Green being a few others)... carry on. A discussing forum should have all kinds that drive it. I value all political views... I just wish they would be more honest with what and who they are.

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-03-15   12:22:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: GrandIsland (#11)

I value all political views... I just wish they would be more honest with what and who they are.

You see ill will in other views. This is not what "to value" means.

A Pole  posted on  2015-03-15   13:10:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: A Pole (#14)

You see ill will in other views.

English please

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-03-15   14:46:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: GrandIsland (#20)

"You see ill will in other views."

English please

Reading comprehension problems?

You see - ill will (opposite to goodwill) - in the views contrary to your own.

A Pole  posted on  2015-03-15   20:43:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: A Pole (#25)

You see - ill will in the views contrary to your own.

How the F*ck to you know what I see?

I honestly didn't think it was "ill". I figured it was I'll and you forgot the apostrophe, and a few other words... assuming you can't possibly know or testify to what I see.

But yes, I did read that wrong. I stand corrected... but your statement is idiotic and about as factual as a Free Thought Project article. lol

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-03-15   20:54:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: GrandIsland (#27)

How the F*ck do you know what I see?

A little bird told me.

A Pole  posted on  2015-03-16   2:24:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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