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What purpose? Pretty straightforward dont you think when you have the biggest bully USA in town sailing down your coast with it's tags along partners. The Chinese navy best build another 2000 new ones and upgrade everything possible in it's fleet to keep these bullies out of their waters and make them sail back to their own shores. What a stupid question to start with! I think you forgot about the opium wars when the same bullies shoved opium down its throat and looted its capital. Go and get an education mate.

Two IFV unlikely to meet in battle.

what purpose? probably freedom of navigation right on the side of US's border

China is going forward to future with all ..not like the usa who goes alone.

Make US peace loving too.

Bravo. China🎉🎉🎉

well as usual sac an interesting view, but no problem to a naval power like arn with nuclear powers subs mate. we got em covered.

For the same reasons we have destroyers.

WHAT PURPOSE??? To support American view in FREEDOM of NAVIGATION of course!!!!!

A strong military (especially Navy) allows you to protect and project your national interest. It's the same reason that Australia and many other US Allies cannot have its own foreign policy - we simply do not have a meaningful military any more

Just cannot stand that accent. That accent alone sounds increasingly laughable every year.

Not a very intelligent question - quite obviously it is for self-defense. China remembers what happened when her military was weak - it resulted in the Century of Humiliation. Hence it will never allow that to happen ever again, if possible.

That is a Kirov underneath

The simple strategic truth is 1. The US is incredibly hostile to China's rise and 2. The USN and USAF is a constant presence within 1000km of China while the PLAN and PLAAF is nowhere close to the continental US. Anyone in China's shoes will upgrade their military to stop the US from choking oil shipments to China from the Middle East using the SCS and deter the US from launching a devastating conventional war to regain US hegemony.

China is adding about 100 nuclear weapons annually and it will match the US and Russia in 20 years as far as nuclear weapons is concerned.

The Chinese navy has better electronic warfare equipment than any other countries including Russia and America. 052D and 055 destroyers have anti-stealth missiles and anti-stealth radars. YJ-21 hypersonic anti-ship missiles can fired from some latest 052D destroyers too. Also, by 093-C SSN and H-6K and H-6J bombers.

The purpouse is quite obvious. China itself is publicly saying it : To be able to take over Taiwan by 2030 with no problems and some years after that to be the global Superpower not just in quantity but also quality. Thats even open, public policy of them.

To prevent military intervention from USA and its allies when China reclaim Taiwan. China wants an ultimate military superiority over its enemies. The most important question is, what next after China had reclaimed Taiwan with its huge military? Japan and India must be very very worry!

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China has been at cyber war with the world for decades. China has invaded Japan, the Philippines and Vietnams waters. China plans more invasions

Why is that? The United States has always advocated for freedom of navigation, so China will naturally develop its own freedom of navigation as well. This is the outcome. If the United States can achieve it, why can't China? China's shipbuilding capacity is over 200 times that of the United States.

N.Z.J.F., Guess what the J represents?

i remembered when i was young, air fighters, planes from Taiwan flew to my home town in Fujian, China, to broadcast again the government... 10 years ago, US navy ships visited the coastal areas to show strength.....

Those old Chinese destroyers are not old compare with the US fleet, whose bulk of the carriers are 30-50 yrs old, the ticons are 30-40 yrs old all decommissioned by 2029, the arleigh burkes are younger, with oldest at 34yrs of age. And all these Chinese destroyers gets major upgrade after 20 yrs of service, that will extend their service life maybe another 15 yr or so, but doubt they will be use for so long because of PLAN's constant upgrade with newer vessels.

If you have no idea why China is rapidly expanding and modernising its military, you have probably not been catching up with current affairs for the past 5 years. But your video contents seem current. Just a passer-by decided to click your entry based on the silly nature of the video title.

I was always told growing up "there is no such thing as a STOOPID question". This video proved me wrong

To protect the mainland from foreign invaders especially the US. Probably the western powers had forgotten the history of the 8-Nation Alliance (Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Austria-Hungary) that invaded northern China in 1900.

What is your purpose to ask what is the purpose?

Clearly some people are misunderstanding the question here. It is not that the PLAN is improving its capability, its that it is upgrading older vessels when at the same time constructing newer and better ships. Why this is happening is the question. A point of clarification on PLAN surfaced-launched anti-ship missiles found on destroyers & frigates: The YJ-18 is vertically-launched only from the Type 055 & 052Ds. The YJ-83 is slant-launched from frigates & older non-upgraded destroyers. The YJ-12 is slant-launched from the upgraded destroyers. As I mention in the briefing, I have excluded the YJ-21 as it is an ASBM. Appreciate the excellent informed comments below.

What purpose? 😂😂😂 😅😅

What a Dum question!

For what purpose? What a daft question! For the defence of China. For the defence of China's allies! For China's national security against all enemies. And I mean ALL enemies without exception. China will bow to no hegemon. China will bow to no imperialists past and present! China represents peace not war! Stop the anti-China fake news propaganda!

How many time have you asked the US navy?

Now not "at what cost", but "for what purpose"

For all the people in the comments missing the point: China expects a hot war (or wishe to deter a hot war) in the next 10 years. Excellent analysis, I hope our spooks are paying the same amount of attention to this.

If China had the same malformed brain as the USA, what would they be for? But China isn't the USA. (We can tell by the priorities of development. USA is all belligerence and no development).

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt - Sun Tzu

BBC is doing much better job. You should say "but at what cost"

US can have 11 carriers plying round world the to bully others?

Lots and lots of crappy ships the Chinese are building these days, they look good on paper, if you believe the PLAN's propaganda about their capabilities, but are rife with habitability problems, have way less advanced weapon and sensor systems, and unproven equipment like the electro magnetic catapults they are still trying to get to work despite having already built two vessels featuring them. Add in crews not trained in modern naval doctrine and tactics and it will be some decades yet before they are able to come anywhere near to rivaling the west. Also, unlike NATO that has bases all over the world the Chinese lack the logistics to operate effectively outside of their own waters and as long as they pursue an expansionist agenda will find few allies outside of Russia and North Korea. But hey their ships do look pretty. 😊

China is surrounded by 200 US military bases. Why do you think?

What purpose ? China is surrounded by 400 USA military bases

The US has about 750 military bases in 80 countries, including 313 surrounding China, and it's not surprising that other countries would want to do a similar thing, said US presidential candidate Marianne Williamson.

The purpose is obvious: make it impossible for the US to blockade china.

How about Chinese carrier attack group deployed in Cuba since 1950s + Chinese reconnaissance jet fly aroud the US seashore just 12 miles away to keep the freedom of navigation?

What for? Defense against the U$A which seeks to blockade China etc

hmmm who has been threatening to destroy Chinese maritime commerce at all the world's checkpoints?? Hint hint.

The problem in Western analysis is ignoring the fact that Taiwan is regarded as a Chinese province - by China and by most member states of the UN - the island is not some prize of imperial conquest (like e.g. Panama, Greenland or Canada...). As long as no US stand-off weapons 'find their way' unto the island, threatening the mainland - or it's commercial maritime shipping - ever increasing economic integration will run it's natural course with the original civil war Guomindang already aligned with the Communist Party of China, decades ago (triggering a hasty rebranding of the 1949 civil war remnants as 'ethnical Taiwanese' by the US in order to covertly promote Wilsonianism, violating the UN 'One China' policy agreement). Hence, the Chinese guided missile cruiser fleets arguably function as deterrence to any US blockade of Chinese shipping ('Offshore Control', conceptualized in 2012), by now capable of escorting convoys along the Strait of Malacca (demonstrated by Indonesia joining BRICS in 2025). Any further power projection - e.g. beyond the first island chain to the East and South, containing US dictated AUKUS - would require the construction of further carriers and submarines, the former not yet being decided upon (the latter likely ongoing, regardless).

Nice job,I've been blowing the warning horn on the massive upgrade the PLAN has undergone the last 15 yrs, while we play distracting political games here in the US. You sound Aussie,always respected your plucky country,and damn your on the front line w/ the PRC. I'm of the opinion that the US has to get out of the Taiwan scenario game w/a resolution,it's a shit sandwhich but every passing yr. the cost of going toe to toe in China's backyard is a bridge to far w/so many losses nuclear usage has a high probability should 2-3 carriers see the bottom. Better to resolve through negotiation,the ONE China policy the US has used(not to mention half of Taiwanese are pro China anyway) while arming Taiwan has to gall China. While still in somewhat strong position the US could really test Chinese intention if Taiwan was resolved as China has justified it's aggression over this issue. Maybe some concessions on N. Korea,economic's,Fentanyl,and arms(nuclear which China is rapidly expanding)could be extracted. All in all it will pause China's doctrine formed for decades over the Taiwan scenario and give time for the US to get new ships/systems in future development online as well as Australia,Japan,and SKorea and flip the narrative in the Pacific now that China's Taiwan issue is no longer valid,who is the bad guy in the Pacific now?,so to speak

Of course, China will continue to keep her ship construction industry running between her own naval ships as well as commercial ships just to continuously keep the industry going and her workers occupied through the year; after all they manufacture 50% of the steel production; all these factors simply jive with her development plans in all sectors of the industry!!