The Chinese and Indian borders are tense, and the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea are on the verge of crisis, Xi Jinping recently signed the Chinese Communist Party’s Military Commission’s Order No. 1 of 2021, issuing a mobilization order to the entire army for training. The demand to “gather to prepare for war and fight”, to ensure that all the time standby for war, ready to fight. Commentators say Xi’s move is intimidating, but it also reflects the weakness of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Communist Party’s Xinhua news agency reported that Xi Jinping, chairman of the Communist Party’s military commission, signed “Central Military Commission Order No. 1 of 2021” on Jan. 4, issuing a mobilization order for training, asking the entire army to focus on preparing for war and strengthening training on the front line of military struggle, “to ensure that they are ready for war and able to fight at all times.
The reporter looked up the opening training mobilization order in 2020 and found that there were no words “ensure full time standby, ready to fight”.
Some media interpretations suggest that Xi Jinping has raised the level of preparedness to a high level, with a strong sense of intimidation. Some analysts believe that Xi’s order shows that the Communist Party’s top brass has made a judgment on the current situation and is planning for the worst.
The Communist Party also admitted that 2020 is an “extremely unusual year” in the history of the Communist Party, with “high winds and waves in the external environment” and a variety of challenges coming to the authorities like a mountain on top of a mountain.
U.S.-based current affairs commentator Zheng Haocheang: “The more the CCP encounters a major crisis, the more aggressive it will be, which is one of its characteristics. But this also in turn reflects its weakness. This gesture of its is not mainly for domestic people, but for its so-called enemies, especially for Western powers like the United States.”
Xue Chi, a scholar of Chinese studies, said the U.S. military has fought non-stop since World War II and has the most experience in actual combat in the world, but the Chinese Communist military has almost no experience in actual combat and cannot fight after fighting the Vietnam War in 1979.
The Chinese researcher Xue Chi: “The corruption within the army, the internal cronyism within the army and the falsification of the army for so many years have turned the whole army into a mess. But the mess of the Chinese Communist army is actually completely rotten.”
Xue Chi said that although the senior officers and generals of the Chinese army were purged by Xi Jinping, there is still a question mark over whether those who have been promoted are on the same page as Xi Jinping.
Xue Chi: “So in this case, what is Xi Jinping doing? The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
Xue Chi believes that although the idea of fighting a war is getting stronger at the top of the Chinese Communist Party, he is pessimistic about the combat effectiveness of the military.
The entire war is a comprehensive and cruel test of national strength. In this inside, all the shortcomings of the Chinese Communist Party, all now exposed, especially in the case of the new cold war between China and the United States.”
According to Xue Chi, so in this situation, the Chinese Communist Party is superficially aggressive, flaunting its power externally, but in fact internally nervous to death.
Xue Chi: “It is through this strategy of attack for defense to win time for itself, so what is it now? It’s military transformation, the transformation of the army and the transformation of military technology and military training transformation, it is now going to be combined together. The difficulty of this is quite huge.”
Xue Chi said that all of this together is going to cost money. But the Chinese Communist Party’s economy is declining year after year, and although its military spending is growing, that growth is not keeping up with the growth of its military development.
At the end of 2020, Xi signed the newly revised “Regulations on Army Equipment,” “Regulations on Army Logistics,” “Regulations on Army Military Professional Education (for Trial Implementation),” and “Regulations on the Political Work of the Army.” The intention to “prepare for war” is obvious.
However, Dr. Wang Juntao of Columbia University said in a previous interview that, based on his understanding of the Chinese Communist Party’s military, the Communist Party will not be able to fight a war in the next year or two. First, Xi Jinping engaged in a purge in the army some time ago, but now a group of people are promoted, most of them are the original Xiamen army’s category B group, which can’t fight a war. Second, now the Chinese Communist army weapons update very quickly, but the weapons really want to update to fight, it needs a lot of exercises, need to adapt, need to actual combat, but now these are not yet available. Third, he said, “Xi Jinping is now based on political loyalty, and those who do not listen to him will be purged by Xi Jinping. I know or indirectly know these people, and they are very angry.”
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