Adaptation on the fly is not something that the Chinese do well. The PLA has a rigid centralized top down command structure, unlike the US where lower commanders are given the authority to make necessary decisions when the situation dictates due to changes - which in war is a given. In addition, there is more collaboration that takes place in the US military versus the PLA that simply obeys orders, unquestioned or challenged in any way. In the PLA command structure, no one acts unless permission to do so has percolated down through the entire command chain from on high - even if the battlefield situation changes. Their command structure is so layered that quick adaptations on the battlefield are nearly impossible. Independent thought is not allowed and can even get a soldier in trouble. Loyalty over competence.

Much of the US's military doctrine, equipment, and structure, has been built on years of real wartime experience and the lessons learned there. The Chinese do not bring to the table the wealth of experience won through trial and error and combat experience. You can steal the blueprints, but you can't steal the experience and the lessons learned through development over the years built on intimate knowledge. That cannot be leapfrogged.

With the Communist Chinese it's all about central planning. The Chinese must have a predictable plan. Trump has completely upended the Chinese's war and political strategies because they don't know what he will do next. As soon as they think they can anticipate Trump, he throws them a curve ball and turns their well calculated actions and responses upside down and inside out, often leaving them completely flat footed. With previous presidents, the CCP figured them out and would play them accordingly to their own advantage because they were predictable. Trump is not, and he refuses to play by Beijing's rules of anticipated predictability. The CCP misses Biden and his administration.

The Chinese have been forced to game plan several different scenarios regarding Trump, and even then Trump may do something that they didn't expect and plan for. Many advisors in the CCP have been purged for misleading Xi about Trump. Remember, with the Chinese, it is all about "face." When poor advice causes Xi to lose face on the public stage, that is unforgivable.

What has been made most evident since Trump took office, is the poor performance of Chinese weapons under combat conditions. Real battlefield results have shown that Chinese weapons don't live up to the propaganda hype. Pakistan, Venezuela, Iran in June 2025, and then again starting the end of Feb this year, there have been multiple equipment failures across many theaters of operation. There have been others, but those failures were not as high profile as the ones I listed. The CCP simply dismissed the complaints blaming them on operator failure and misuse - never the weapons themselves - the standard CCP gaslighting line. They were not able to use those excuses given the extent and high visibility of the latest debacles.

There is a glaring reason why Chinese weapons perform so poorly under combat conditions. Rampant corruption is systemic throughout the government, educational institutions, and the industrial sector - both private and the military. From concept to finished product, the entire military industrial supply chain is full of corruption at every level. Documents are forged, materials switched and downgraded, and shortcuts are taken. Everyone in the chain gets a cut of procurement money. By the time it gets down to the product itself, there is very little money left to actually fabricate whatever the contract originally was allocated for. Because of the tofu-dreg weapons this system of corruption produces, the testing is often faked or results are grossly manipulated. Chinese soldiers don't even trust their own weapons.

The Chinese weapons industry has taken a huge hit with this latest round of systems failures in Iran. Xi has lost major face on the global stage. His great Chinese rejuvenation image and the East is rising and the West is declining propaganda narrative has been all but shattered. His military modernization dream has turned into a nightmare. Many within the military industrial sector have been purged, disappeared, died suddenly, jailed, or have been executed. Xi has called for audits throughout the entire arms procurement and supply chain going back decades. This has taken place right when Xi has been purging out the entire military command structure under the guise of rooting out corruption, which was a cover for removing his political rivals because Xi is terrified of a coup. Xi is living with pathological paranoia. There is an enemy under every rock - no one is safe.

China's military command is weakened, their weapons may or may not function, the troops are demoralized, the economy is tanking, BRI is crumbling, the people are desperate, there are fractures within the government itself, they are loosing allies, and China's image in the eyes of the world have been somewhat diminished. Add to all that, Donald Trump!

Adaptation on the fly is not something that the Chinese do well. The PLA has a rigid centralized top down command structure, unlike the US where lower commanders are given the authority to make necessary decisions when the situation dictates due to changes - which in war is a given. In addition, there is more collaboration that takes place in the US military versus the PLA that simply obeys orders, unquestioned or challenged in any way. In the PLA command structure, no one acts unless permission to do so has percolated down through the entire command chain from on high - even if the battlefield situation changes. Their command structure is so layered that quick adaptations on the battlefield are nearly impossible. Independent thought is not allowed and can even get a soldier in trouble. Loyalty over competence.

Much of the US's military doctrine, equipment, and structure, has been built on years of real wartime experience and the lessons learned there. The Chinese do not bring to the table the wealth of experience won through trial and error and combat experience. You can steal the blueprints, but you can't steal the experience and the lessons learned through development over the years built on intimate knowledge. That cannot be leapfrogged.

With the Communist Chinese it's all about central planning. The Chinese must have a predictable plan. Trump has completely upended the Chinese's war and political strategies because they don't know what he will do next. As soon as they think they can anticipate Trump, he throws them a curve ball and turns their well calculated actions and responses upside down and inside out, often leaving them completely flat footed. With previous presidents, the CCP figured them out and would play them accordingly to their own advantage because they were predictable. Trump is not, and he refuses to play by Beijing's rules of anticipated predictability. The CCP misses Biden and his administration.

The Chinese have been forced to game plan several different scenarios regarding Trump, and even then Trump may do something that they didn't expect and plan for. Many advisors in the CCP have been purged for misleading Xi about Trump. Remember, with the Chinese, it is all about "face." When poor advice causes Xi to lose face on the public stage, that is unforgivable.

What has been made most evident since Trump took office, is the poor performance of Chinese weapons under combat conditions. Real battlefield results have shown that Chinese weapons don't live up to the propaganda hype. Pakistan, Venezuela, Iran in June 2025, and then again starting the end of Feb this year, there have been multiple equipment failures across many theaters of operation. There have been others, but those failures were not as high profile as the ones I listed. The CCP simply dismissed the complaints blaming them on operator failure and misuse - never the weapons themselves - the standard CCP gaslighting line. They were not able to use those excuses given the extent and high visibility of the latest debacles.

There is a glaring reason why Chinese weapons perform so poorly under combat conditions. Rampant corruption is systemic throughout the government, educational institutions, and the industrial sector - both private and the military. From concept to finished product, the entire military industrial chain is full of corruption at every level. Documents are forged, materials switched and downgraded, and shortcuts are taken. Everyone in the chain gets a cut of procurement money. By the time it gets down to the product itself, there is very little money left to actually fabricate whatever the contract originally was allocated for. Because of the tofu-dreg weapons this system of corruption produces, the testing is often faked or results are grossly manipulated. Chinese soldiers don't even trust their own weapons.

The Chinese weapons industry has taken a huge hit with this latest round of systems failures in Iran. Xi has lost major face on the global stage. His great Chinese rejuvenation image and the East is rising and the West is declining propaganda narrative has been all but shattered. His military modernization dream has turned into a nightmare. Many within the military industrial sector have been purged, disappeared, died suddenly, jailed, or have been executed. Xi has called for audits throughout the entire arms procurement and supply chain going back decades. This has taken place right when Xi has been purging out the entire military command structure under the guise of rooting out corruption, which was a cover for removing his political rivals because Xi is terrified of a coup. Xi is living with pathological paranoia. There is an enemy under every rock - no one is safe.

China's military command is weakened, their weapons may or may not function, the troops are demoralized, the economy is tanking, BRI is crumbling, the people are desperate, there are fractures within the government itself, they are loosing allies, and China's image in the eyes of the world have been somewhat diminished. Add to all that, Donald Trump!

Adaptation on the fly is not something that the Chinese do well. The PLA has a rigid centralized top down command structure, unlike the US where lower commanders are given the authority to make necessary decisions when the situation dictates due to changes - which in war is a given. In addition, there is more collaboration that takes place in the US military versus the PLA that simply obeys orders, unquestioned or challenged in any way. In the PLA command structure, no one acts unless permission to do so has percolated down through the entire command chain from on high - even if the battlefield situation changes. Their command structure is so layered that quick adaptations on the battlefield are nearly impossible. Independent thought is not allowed and can even get a soldier in trouble. Loyalty over competence.

Much of the US's military doctrine, equipment, and structure, has been built on years of real wartime experience and the lessons learned there. The Chinese do not bring to the table the wealth of experience won through trial and error and combat experience. You can steal the blueprints, but you can't steal the experience and the lessons learned through development over the years built on intimate knowledge. That cannot be leapfrogged.

With the Communist Chinese it's all about central planning. The Chinese must have a predictable plan. Trump has completely upended the Chinese's war and political strategies because they don't know what he will do next. As soon as they think they can anticipate Trump, he throws them a curve ball and turns their well calculated actions and responses upside down and inside out, often leaving them completely flat footed. With previous presidents, the CCP figured them out and would play them accordingly to their own advantage because they were predictable. Trump is not, and he refuses to play by Beijing's rules of anticipated predictability. The CCP misses Biden and his administration.

The Chinese have been forced to game plan several different scenarios regarding Trump, and even then Trump may do something that they didn't expect and plan for. Many advisors in the CCP have been purged for misleading Xi about Trump. Remember, with the Chinese, it is all about "face." When poor advice causes Xi to lose face on the public stage, that is unforgivable.

What has been made most evident since Trump took office, is the poor performance of Chinese weapons under combat conditions. Real battlefield results have shown that Chinese weapons don't live up to the propaganda hype. Pakistan, Venezuela, Iran in June 2025, and then again starting the end of Feb this year, there have been multiple equipment failures across many theaters of operation. There have been others, but those failures were not as high profile as the ones I listed. The CCP simply dismissed the complaints blaming them on operator failure and misuse - never the weapons themselves - the standard CCP gaslighting line. They were not able to use those excuses given the extent and high visibility of the latest debacles.

There is a glaring reason why Chinese weapons perform so poorly under combat conditions. Rampant corruption is systemic throughout the government, educational institutions, and the industrial sector - both private and the military. From concept to finished product, the entire military industrial chain is full of corruption at every level. Documents are forged, materials switched and downgraded, and shortcuts are taken. Everyone in the chain gets a cut of procurement money. By the time it gets down to the product itself, there is very little money left to actually fabricate whatever the contract originally was allocated for. Because of the tofu-dreg weapons this system of corruption produces, the testing is often faked or results are grossly manipulated. Chinese soldiers don't even trust their own weapons.

The Chinese weapons industry has taken a huge hit with this latest round of systems failures in Iran. Xi has lost major face on the global stage. His great Chinese rejuvenation image and the East is rising and the West is declining propaganda narrative has been all but shattered. His military modernization dream has turned into a nightmare. Many within the military industrial sector have been purged, disappeared, died suddenly, jailed, or have been executed. Xi has called for audits throughout the entire arms procurement and supply chain going back decades. This has taken place right when Xi has been purging out the entire military command structure under the guise of rooting out corruption, which was a cover for removing his political rivals because Xi is terrified of a coup. Xi is living with pathological paranoia. There is an enemy under every rock - no one is safe.

China's military command is weakened, their weapons may or may not function, the troops are demoralized, the economy is tanking, BRI is crumbling, the people are desperate, there are fractures within the government itself, they are loosing allies, and China's image in the eyes of the world have been somewhat diminished. Add to all that, Donald Trump!

Adaptation on the fly is not something that the Chinese do well. The PLA has a rigid centralized top down command structure, unlike the US where lower commanders are given the authority to make necessary decisions when the situation dictates due to changes - which in war is a given. In addition, there is more collaboration that takes place in the US military versus the PLA that simply obeys orders, unquestioned or challenged in any way. In the PLA command structure, no one acts unless permission to do so has percolated down through the entire command chain from on high - even if the battlefield situation changes. Their command structure is so layered that quick adaptations on the battlefield are nearly impossible. Independent thought is not allowed and can even get a soldier in trouble. Loyalty over competence.

Much of the US's military doctrine, equipment, and structure, has been built on years of real wartime experience and the lessons learned there. The Chinese do not bring to the table the wealth of experience won through trial and error and battlefield experience. You can steal the blueprints, but you can't steal the experience and the lessons learned through development over the years built on intimate knowledge. That cannot be leapfrogged.

With the Communist Chinese it's all about central planning. The Chinese must have a predictable plan. Trump has completely upended the Chinese's war and political strategies because they don't know what he will do next. As soon as they think they can anticipate Trump, he throws them a curve ball and turns their well calculated actions and responses upside down and inside out, often leaving them completely flat footed. With previous presidents, the CCP figured them out and would play them accordingly to their own advantage because they were predictable. Trump is not, and he refuses to play by Beijing's rules of anticipated predictability. The CCP misses Biden and his administration.

The Chinese have been forced to game plan several different scenarios regarding Trump, and even then Trump may do something that they didn't expect and plan for. Many advisors in the CCP have been purged for misleading Xi about Trump. Remember, with the Chinese, it is all about "face." When poor advice causes Xi to lose face on the public stage, that is unforgivable.

What has been made most evident since Trump took office, is the poor performance of Chinese weapons. Real battlefield results have shown that Chinese weapons don't live up to the propaganda hype. Pakistan, Venezuela, Iran in June 2025, and then again starting the end of Feb this year, there have been multiple equipment failures across many theaters of operation. There have been others, but those failures were not as high profile as the ones I listed. The CCP simply dismissed the complaints blaming them on operator failure and misuse - never the weapons themselves - the standard CCP gaslighting line. They were not able to use those excuses given the extent and high visibility of the latest debacles.

There is a glaring reason why Chinese weapons perform so poorly under combat conditions. Rampant corruption is systemic throughout the government, educational institutions, and the industrial sector - both private and the military. From concept to finished product, the entire military industrial chain is full of corruption at every level. Documents are forged, materials switched and downgraded, and shortcuts are taken. Everyone in the chain gets a cut of procurement money. By the time it gets down to the product itself, there is very little money left to actually fabricate whatever the contract originally was allocated for. Because of the tofu-dreg weapons this system of corruption produces, the testing is often faked or results are grossly manipulated. Chinese soldiers don't even trust their own weapons.

The Chinese weapons industry has taken a huge hit with this latest round of systems failures in Iran. Xi has lost major face on the global stage. His great Chinese rejuvenation image and the East is rising and the West is declining propaganda narrative has been all but shattered. His military modernization dream has turned into a nightmare. Many within the military industrial sector have been purged, disappeared, died suddenly, jailed, or have been executed. Xi has called for audits throughout the entire arms procurement and supply chain going back decades. This has taken place right when Xi has been purging out the entire military command structure under the guise of rooting out corruption, which was a cover for removing his political rivals because Xi is terrified of a coup. Xi is living with pathological paranoia. There is an enemy under every rock - no one is safe.

China's military command is weakened, their weapons may or may not function, the troops are demoralized, the economy is tanking, BRI is crumbling, the people are desperate, there are fractures within the government itself, they are loosing allies, and China's image in the eyes of the world have been somewhat diminished. Add to all that, Donald Trump!