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IMPERIAL CHINA MILITARY
The military history of Imperial China before the nineteenth-century Western impact shows considerable variation from period to period, depending on changing historical circumstances and the differing social bases of successive dynasties. It also shows continuity related to the persistence of the major cultural factors that came together in the Han period. These cultural factors include Confucianism, the Legalist state, and…
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The Mongol Reduction of Northern China II
By 1213, with Beijing resisting them even though it was effectively cut off, the Mongols were simply roaming the central plains of northern China and had lost the initiative. They were therefore fortunate that the Jin court was in the act of imploding at this juncture. The Emperor Weishao Wang…
The American exercise was a “naked provocative action,” China says.
By Kyle Mizokami Aug 26, 2020 China claims an American U-2 spy plane interfered with planned military exercises, wandering into a no-fly zone where live ammunition was being fired. Beijing complained the exercise was reckless and could have led to a “misunderstanding” between the two countries. The U.S. government has…
Chinese Type 59 Tank
After Mao Zedong and the communists took power in China in 1949 they obtained several hundred Soviet T-34/85s. These were used to equip a single mechanized division. After some delay the Chinese began to produce a copy designated the Type 58, but this was swiftly redundant with the appearance of…
Qin Wars of Unification (230–221 BCE)
Map of Zhou China c.400 BC The Late Zhou period also heralded the ‘Warring States Era’ which saw almost three centuries of bitter rivalry and warfare between a mass of fractured Chinese kingdoms. Eventually the kingdom of Qin, on the western edge of early China would conquer the rest, while…
China-India – Conflict Background
The Chinese, unable to understand the genuine resentment and anger the Tibetans felt about the occupation, were convinced that India supported the resistance. Sino-Indian relations deteriorated even further when the Dalai Lama fled to India after the failed uprising in Lhasa in March 1959. At a CCP Politburo meeting on…
China’s First Nuclear Missile Submarine
by Kyle Mizokami While China’s first ballistic-missile submarine was meant to be a real, operational submarine and part of China’s nuclear deterrent, the obstacles encountered during construction forced lower expectations. The boat was more of a test bed, allowing China to test new underwater technologies as it gradually placed more…