Air Force

Although the great budget, the Chinese they are not obtaining, comparing them it other powers, to carry through revolutionary improvements in its Armed Forces. It is denoted, therefore, that exactly that Pequim continues developing its military budget in the next years, the capacity of national strategical projection will continue unbalanced. The Chinese possess currently not only the biggest army of the world more also the biggest Air Force of the planet. They still count on a green water navy, capable to carry through a regional naval projection, and with the room biggest nuclear armory of the world. They had been, still, the third nation, for independent ways, to take men to the space. For some, such information were enough to affirm, convictamente, that the Chinese geopolitical power is unquestionable.

However, a deep analysis can disclose the real nature of such power. The Chinese try have thirty years almost to raise the standard of the training of its Armed Forces. As if he can observe for the events passed in the first years of this century, Chinese have not been successful. In April of 2001 one hunts Chinese collided in full air with an aircraft of intelligence of the Navy of the United States (USN) while this last one carried through next flight to the Chinese territory. In June of 2008, others two huntings of combat Shenyang J-8 of the Air Force of China (PLAAF, in the acronym in English) also had been shocked in full air in a desert region in the Interior Monglia. The navy and the Air Force are distinguished for the low standards of training. In the only war opened in which the Chinese if had involved in last the 40 years, when invading the Vietnam, in 1979, they had been rejected by the experienced Vietnameses. After one confrontation month, the envoy of Pequim if had removed of the Vietnam announcing ' ' the end of the expedition punitiva' ' , in what in the truth it was a shameful defeat.