People's Liberation Army Air Force
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Oct 1, 2026
Stacie PettyjohnGUEST
I'm not going to assume assured basing in many locations, and you're gonna have to operate from distances.
Stacie PettyjohnGUEST
And you're right, even launch baskets for bombers or for pelletized munitions is going to be pushed back because of the Chinese Air Force.
Stacie PettyjohnGUEST
So there...
Stacie PettyjohnGUEST
And many people would argue you need more than that, but that precludes you from hitting a whole host of potential targets within China.
Carl ZhaHOST
Indeed, it wasn't
Warwick PowellGUEST
until arguably about 10 years ago that the People's Liberation Army Air Force achieved parity and arguably got one step ahead of the Republic of China Air Force supported by the Americans.
Warwick PowellGUEST
So until about 10 years ago, even the idea
Carl ZhaHOST
of
Murtaza HussainHOST
And as China's economic power grew, they continued to grow their military and also think outside the box a little bit in how they can manage their own rise and come to a position of parity with the U.S. over time.
Murtaza HussainHOST
There's one very famous or even say notorious book that was published in 1999 by two People's Liberation Army Air Force colonels, It was called in Chinese, please forgive my Mandarin pronunciation.
Murtaza HussainHOST
I'm still working on it.
Murtaza HussainHOST
I'm not an amateur Mandarin reader, but it was chao shan zhan.
John MearsheimerHOST
And of course, from an American point of view, Taiwan is of great strategic importance and keeping Taiwan independent really matters.
John MearsheimerHOST
If you're interested in bottling up the Chinese Navy and the Chinese Air Force inside the first island chain, the Americans need to control Taiwan.
John MearsheimerHOST
The Americans also worry if they abandon Taiwan that the end result would be that other allies of the United States in East Asia would lose faith in the United States and this would make it impossible for the United States to contain China.
John MearsheimerHOST
One doesn't have to accept the logic that I just laid out for why the United States thinks it has to maintain an independent Taiwan, indeed a Taiwan that is allied with the United States.
William CooperHOST
Okay.
William CooperHOST
Freedom of Information Act requests have produced the information that the United States Air Force has been training the Communist Chinese Air Force right here in the United States.
William CooperHOST
Now, we're a republic, and the Communist Chinese are our sworn enemies, sworn to destroy us.
William CooperHOST
And if we're not on the side of communism and socialism, what are we doing training the Chinese Air Force in air combat tactics that they may one day use against us? What do you think about that, Pauline?
Gregory CopleyGUEST
And the PRC, for the first time, after ignoring many lessons from the past, essentially said, has now given autonomy to various regional commands and the like to be able to make decisions about interoperability between ground, sea and air forces and space forces and the like.
Gregory CopleyGUEST
And this was demonstrated by what was quite important was this recent announcement military exercise called Eagles of Civilization 2026, which was a working up of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, the Chinese Air Force, with the Egyptian Air Force in Egypt.
Gregory CopleyGUEST
And it came on the 70th anniversary of of Sino-Egyptian diplomatic relations, which is quite interesting.
Gregory CopleyGUEST
Xi Jinping himself went on a very brief state visit to Cairo.
Brandon WeichertHOST
I've been tracking this story.
Brandon WeichertHOST
It's unconfirmed, but sounds like the recent joint military exercises between the Chinese PLAAF and the Egyptian Air Force saw a cluster of Shenyang J-16s armed with the PL-15 air-to-air missile defeat the Egyptian Air Force's Rafale force.
Brandon WeichertHOST
some are saying seven to zero, others are saying two to zero.
Brandon WeichertHOST
I'm probably going to say it's somewhere in the middle.
Tim DennisHOST
Uh, secret test programs of futuristic aircraft at the Chinese facility have drawn comparisons to the famous US base in Nevada linked to experimental aircraft and even UFOs.
Tim DennisHOST
Um, uh, military analysts believe the monster drone will be used by the Chinese Air Force for high altitude, long endurance intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance.
Tim DennisHOST
Uh, this means it could be tasked with spotting US ships, mapping air defenses, and passing along targeting data and locations for missile strikes.
Tim DennisHOST
Rupprecht, who has been recognized as a specialist on Chinese military aviation, said the top secret drone likely has a range of 12,000 miles and can fly at altitudes of more than 60,000 feet.
TowerHOST
The threat picture has changed.
TowerHOST
China's People's Liberation Army Air Force has invested heavily in both advanced fighters and in their own unmanned combat aircraft programs.
TowerHOST
The calculus of air combat over the Taiwan Strait, or anywhere in the Western Pacific, is not the same as it was 10 years ago.
TowerHOST
The United States Air Force has a pilot shortage.
Collin KohGUEST
But what is the most phenomenal is that we are looking at China the PLA on the whole, all the services increasingly coming together.
Collin KohGUEST
More in the case of the maritime sphere, we are looking at the PLA Navy working more closely and increasingly more closely with the PLA Air Force, of course, the support force that used to be called support force, but essentially they run the cyber and the space domain and the rocket force as well.
Collin KohGUEST
So looking at this gradual effort to try to integrate all these various elements, what the West will usually call joint warfare or integrated warfare, they actually don't have a similar name.
Collin KohGUEST
They actually call that systems confrontation, which essentially means integration and joint warfare.
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