“When a country is corrupt to the point that a single lightning strike can cause a train crash, the passing of a truck can collapse a bridge, and drinking a few bags of milk powder can cause kidney stones, none of us are exempted. China today is a train traveling through a lightning storm. None of us are spectators; all of us are passengers.”
China netizen
Source: www.chinageek.org
It was only last week that I reiterated my point that China is going through a Great Leap Forward in Weapons and the evidence for this can be seen in other high-end projects such as high-speed rail. After the weekends deadly train collision it sadly hits home as a, “I told you so moment.”
Now weibo and the likes are alight with accusations by netizens and finger pointing over who is responsible for this latest disaster. Vice premier Zhang Dejiang, has come forward and lamely announced that those responsible will be punished, refusing to see that it is not any one person that is responsible, but the entire system that demands staggering world-beating achievements in record breaking time. It happened in the Great Leap Forward, it happened on the Three Gorges dam, it is clearly happening in China’s high-speed rail experiment and it is certainly happening in China’s defense industry.
The PLA is heading towards a huge folly of their own making, egged on by the CCP and a Chinese populace that really should know better by now.
Despite the obvious lessons that could be learned from this horrific train crash the CCP will continue to blunder on, rolling a few heads, shaming some officials, but ultimately sidestepping any criticism of itself or correcting this time-honoured glitch in its modus operandi. So, the same mistake will be made in the coming years when an overly, bloated, pumped-up Chinese navy will steam head-long into a calamitous situation that it is totally unprepared for and once again a furious Chinese population will scream out in consternation, “Where is our navy, where is the Shi-lang, our stealth bombers and elite forces”? Just like Groundhog Day, the same mistakes will have been made all over again such as, faulty workmanship, corrupt skimming on materials, under-skilled sailors, corner cutting on safety and a completely unreasonable expectation on performance and the navy will sink or not even manage to leave port. There are so many clear signs that this is happening.
Once again, heads will roll and the CCP will look for people to blame and demand that the population not be so demanding on the military.
Unfortunately, not only can the CCP not stop it, they’re driving the military forward.
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