Eps 1: Xi Jinping got crashed by a type-59 tank
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Tanks were once the mainstay of its military, but are set to be phased out. Overall, the Type 59 tanks are a modernization of the main battle tanks from the first Chinese years.
The Type 59 tank saw its first battlefield use during the Vietnam War, although results were unsatisfactory. The Type 59 tank was never a original design, with critics noting that it, like much Chinese military hardware, was a copycat of foreign technology. China retired the tank, replacing it with an entirely functioning backup. With constant delays, they had no option but to stay with the older tank.
Since then, Beijings military space capabilities have only grown, particularly since Chinas military has begun leveraging nominally civilian satellites for military purposes . Protecting Beijings interests abroad is a growing priority of Chinese forces.
China has just a handful of military alliances, with Pakistan, North Korea, and several Southeast Asian states. Beijing is also an ally of Pakistan, whose wars it has repeatedly waged against India, and it has sometimes transferred military technology to Pakistan. Chinese hackers have also proven themselves quite capable of breaking into foreign computer systems and perpetrating industrial espionage, but so far China has, at least, refrained from the kind of electoral manipulation tactics practised by neighboring Russia.
At the same time, Chinas expanding the foreign mission of its internal security agencies, including through extradition treaties, institutional partnerships between Chinese and foreign security services, new legislative provisions,38 as well as the export of high-tech surveillance tools to foreign governments.39 In doing so, Beijing appears to seek to promote three related objectives. Under President Xi, China has been pushing new laws and draft legislation that will legitimize political, religious, and ethnic suppression, further reduce civil liberties, and expand Internet censorship.
Under Chinese leaders, China is restructuring the way it does business and is reining in the executive branch. Emboldened by rising nationalism and the Chinese leaders successes with Chinas biggest developers, Mr. Xi is remakeing Chinas business world in his own image. This directive, which has been approved by President Xi, has been adopted across all levels of Chinese government and party institutions.
In recent years, Chinas leading voices have become even more eager to express Chinas global ambitions. Chinese official spokespeople and the Chinese official media have sought to establish the publics expectations of a sustained fight against the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin has long sought to blunt American influence abroad, and China is struggling to cope with expanding military and economic interests that the U.S. has shown throughout Asia since 2011.
China and the United States are likely to remain locked in a mutual obsession as potential military competitors for decades. The United States cannot afford to remain silent as China cracks down. President Xi should be raising issues regarding the South China Sea and what is happening regarding Chinese ambitions for military expansion, and should be using all U.S. diplomatic tools, including sanctions, as needed, to show our resolve on these critical issues.
54 Rubio called upon President Xi to address President Xis concerns on Internet freedom, press freedom, and free expression at their meetings, to not just raise concerns, but also publicly insist that future political and economic relations depend on China showing improvements in respecting human rights. Mr. Chairman, 54 Rubio wants to commend the Congressional-Executive Commission on China for holding hearings just days prior to Mr. Xis trip. Chinese Leader Xi Jinping is the first foreign guest ever met at the Kremlin with an honored cavalry entourage created by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2002, officials said, looking comfortable in his sparkling chambers with the Russian leader, despite the formality of the occasion. MOSCOW - Chinese leader Xi Jinping has highlighted the importance of relations with Russia as a counterweight to US influence, visiting Moscow in his first foreign trip as president, as well as seeking additional oil supplies to power Chinas growing economy.
The "Highway of Death" in Kuwait in 1991 - where American combined arms destroyed an estimated 1000-3,000 Iraqi tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and other vehicles built by Russia and China - was vividly illustrated to Beijing that its antiquated military hardware was not comparable to Western technologies.
President Xi and others touted the fact that Chinas timing and momentum were on Chinas side as it sought to push itself toward center stage in the world. Privately, according to one knowledgeable political adviser, the Chinese leadership has been reassessing the long-term trends and concluded that it could no longer build its country plans around expectations for a broadly stable relationship with America. In part, Chinese leaders have therefore moved ahead with plans to advance the "dual-circulation" economic strategy.
Chinese hackers, supported by the Chinese, also allegedly compromised the computer systems of the US Office of Personnel Management, compromising private data of 4 million current and former government employees.