The growth of military expenditures for 25 years has made China the second largest country with global military expenditures. However, when it comes to the PLA's combat effectiveness is strong, experts have a very different view of each other.

When Beijing announced on Monday in 2019, the figures in the budget are expected to exacerbate Western concerns about Beijing's growing military strength.The growth of military expenses for 25 years has made China a country with the second highest expenditure for military expenditures in the world.But from the perspective of insiders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), the situation is very different.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army's main newspaper PLA DAILY (PLA DAILY) published a report last week. The weakness of the People's Liberation Army pointed out that in the recent ground force exercise, the internal reconnaissance network link inside the attacker was not completely formed, resultingExposed to the point of enemy fire.The article criticized a brief confusion in the command of a synthetic camp, and pointed out that another camp information processing method was wrong, which caused the battlefield trend chart to keep up with dynamic changes.

The image of a force that is difficult to control the basic command and control missions is in sharp contrast to the western construction of the PLA's desire of fighting and increasingly dangerous narratives.

In January this year, the Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency warned in a report that rapid modernization may increase the confidence of the PLA and make it more willing to fight the risk of war.An official said: The most worrying thing is hellip; hellip; they are approaching such a level, that is, the PLA leadership can really reach the Chinese President ... they say that they are confident in their combat capabilities.The official also pointed out that the biggest concern is that mainland China may attack Taiwan in the future.

However, some Western military analysts believe that the view of the Pentagon is wrong.They insisted that the PLA is still in trouble for decades that have troubled it in human resources, organization, corruption, and information technology for decades.

Former US military officer Dennis Bull; Dennis Blasko said: I don't think they are confident that they feel that they have pretended to fight.Brasso is one of the top Chinese military experts in the West.

He said: The PLA can now have confidence in the PLA, where they can walk or drive.(These) are all army combat scenes on the border. It may be aimed at small terrorist organizations. It does not need to integrate the navy, the Air Force and the Rocket Army, but it needs to be highly integrated when fighting Taiwan.

In the testimony provided by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission last month, Brazco's conclusion is that the ability to continue to be confident in the PLA's ability and the education and training system of the PLAThe commanders and staff were not ready to prepare for future wars.He sharply refuted the evaluation report of the Pentagon, saying that from the performance of the senior leaders of the Chinese military, they almost or did not want the PLA to invest in fierce practical combat.

The fundamental reason for the different views of Chinese and Western views is China's own propaganda.

There are a lot of objective evaluations as the PLA reported above.Harvard University Alastel Bull; Ian Bull; Ian Bull; Alastair Iain Johnston's statistics show that the PLA newspaper only mentioned hundreds of times in 2018 that he pointed out that he was weak in military strength.Key words.Since 2015 ... It is pointed out that five words have not been pointed out, the shortcomings of this criticized commander have appeared 557 times.

However, these reports are rarely translated into English, and the information passed to the outside world is also very different.... I have abandoned China that must be kept in foreign policy policies and said that China is approaching the center of the world.

Along with this tough remark, there are practical actions: China builds artificial islands in the South China Sea, militaryization of these islands, and uses this influence to prevent sovereignty from entering the controversial area.China also began to send bombers to fly near Taiwan, increasing military threats to Taiwan.

At the same time, a group of retired PLA officers published statements of hawks, sometimes naked and even naked inciting war on Chinese official media. These remarks were discovered and reported by foreign reporters.Active military soldiers have never been allowed to talk to foreign journalists.

Recently, it is an example. Dai Xu, a retired PLA Air Force, suggested in December last year that the Chinese Navy should attack the US Navy ships in the South China Sea.He said: U.S. warships are again at this place, and two warships are suggested to stop it, stop it, and sank it.

Brasso believes that Dai Xu and similar comments who have worked in the military should be taken seriously.They have retired for a long time and cannot represent the military.He said that they may be a tool for the Chinese government and (Communist) party to perform deterrent.

Another factor that Western worrying about the PLA is China's huge military expenditure. It allows the Chinese government to build the world's largest medium -range missile weapon and one of the largest military surface fleets, and continuously enhances network capabilities.

However, although defense experts agreed that the PLA is becoming more professional and expanding its scope of influence, the efforts to promote the modernization of the PLA have caused more problems in the short term.

The new theater and the units that have been stripped out recently in the army will quarrel.The International Institute Institute for Strategic Studies) Chinese military experts Alex Neill (Alex Neill) said they are facing great challenges in training and personnel management.

Translator/He Li