China releases TV documentary showing its ability to attack Taiwan

Two different people in this article are quoted (via the documentary) as being willing to kill themselves for the cause. Not just die in war, but actually kill themselves.<p>Is this level of fanaticism compatible with modern military practice?<p>Something I’ve learnt from following the war in Ukraine is that modern military practice has come a long way from WWII, Vietnam, and even later wars. Part of the reason Russia has mostly failed in their efforts is that they are an outdated military in terms of technology, leadership, structure, and doctrine.<p>So where is China at? I understand technologically they’re improving all the time and really quite modern. I suspect this level of fanaticism though does not work with modern doctrine. It’s debatable if it even worked for the Japanese in WWII.

China faces a real dilemma in how to achieve it&#x27;s goal of annexing Taiwan, killing the Taiwanese intellectuals, suppressing the natives and looting the industrial&#x2F;IP assets:<p>An attack across the strait with a large buildup of troops (150,000+) and SEAD campaign will need months of logistical preparations which comes with the risk of giving the ROC enough warning to build a nuclear deterrent.<p>However, a rushed attack with less than three months of preparations is likely to be repulsed by the ROC military unless China resorts to a Grozny-style leveling campaign that would unfortunately make the whole endeavor unprofitable.

The whole country thing is ludicrous. All countries are fake divisions, often created long ago, which are treated as if God given. They create huge problems and fix very little.

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Seeing that kind of thing makes me so sad. Like for Ukraine, or other countries, we could live happy in peace using money for good things.<p>Instead, some megalomaniac assholes wants to do vanity wars for subduing population that asked for nothing and are no threats. All of that for nothing instead of giving misery to our world.<p>That should be one of the number one issue of our world leaders and population, but too many persons prefer to be blind to these issues until they reach them.<p>It is not world war 3 yet, but we already still have the 50 shades of modern Nazism with countries like Russia and China.

Looking forward to seeing how the China apologists spin this one. Perhaps an entree of whataboutism, main dish of unfair Western media portrayal and finally allegations of veiled racism for dessert.