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            <title><![CDATA[One month after the ICBM launch, China became a P5 member of the United Nations]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[India is an amazing country that has been seeking permanent membership in the United Nations for many years, wanting a veto. Every once in a while India submits an application to the UN, but every time it is rejected outright. India has nuclear weapons, has aircraft carriers, has a population of 1 billion people, has a vast land mass, and at the time of its founding had almost the same GDP as China. In terms of hardware India is pretty good, and it has always claimed to be the leader of the A...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>India is an amazing country that has been seeking permanent membership in the United Nations for many years, wanting a veto.</p><p>Every once in a while India submits an application to the UN, but every time it is rejected outright.</p><p>India has nuclear weapons, has aircraft carriers, has a population of 1 billion people, has a vast land mass, and at the time of its founding had almost the same GDP as China.</p><p>In terms of hardware India is pretty good, and it has always claimed to be the leader of the Asia-Pacific region.</p><p>But with such a small condition, want to be equal to the five hegemonic powers of the earth, far from it.</p><p>Each of the P5 of the United Nations was fought by the army, not the kind of India sit-in hunger strike in exchange.</p><p>It was the P5 that gave the UN power, not the UN that gave the P5 power.</p><p>In the movie Wandering Earth, the evidence given by Moss, the intelligent life of the space station, when he proved that he had not defected, was that this evacuation had been authorized by the P5 of the United Nations, and so Moss&apos; abandonment of the human race was legal.</p><p>There are hundreds of countries on Earth, but as long as the five permanent members agree on something, it&apos;s law.</p><p>Translated with DeepL.com (free version)  While the United Nations gained its legitimacy through the authorization of the five permanent members, the legitimacy of the P5&apos;s own existence was spelled out through strength. To become a permanent member, one of the most basic entry requirements is to fight with one of the current P5 and then resist the retaliation of the other side unharmed. Many people believe that China&apos;s permanent member status is by inheriting the original Republic of China in exchange, this statement is very wrong. China&apos;s permanent member status, is to rely on their own fight out. Even now the five permanent inside the most awesome record is the new China, and the original old five permanent all dry a fight, and then actually still alive and well. Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, the world&apos;s original five major powers, the original five permanent members, China has beaten, initiated ruthless even their own beat. So China&apos;s status as a permanent member, no one can shake, this is a series of war achievements to bring the status. After World War II, the United Nations was established, why the United Nations has the right to rule on the fate of other countries, it is because of the existence of the five permanent members, any country does not listen to the United Nations, as long as the five permanent members to reach an agreement, a minute to the country to repair the obedience. The latest idiot who dared to offend the P5 all over again, named Gaddafi, has a three-meter-high grave. The UN derives its power from its ability to make disobedient countries obedient, otherwise all its orders are a dead letter. But the fledgling UN was immediately challenged for its authority in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The whole earth found out that in matters within the land area of the Asian region, if the new China did not cooperate, even if all the other countries nodded their heads, it was useless, and the orders of the United Nations were just a piece of paper. Even if the U.S. is personally on board, it is still useless. As long as China does not enter the United Nations, in the future the United Nations will not need to discuss the affairs of the Asian land area, because it is useless to send troops to intervene, and it is certainly even more useless to discuss the discussion with your mouth, and the authority and legitimacy of the United Nations has been greatly shaken. And Britain, France and the United States in North Korea, and the Soviet Union in Jumbo Island, the Republic of China was destroyed by the new China, it can be said that the new China is the old P5 to offend once again the ruthless people. But China is alive and well, every day alive and kicking, so eventually look at China is very bad old P5, pinch the nose to let China become a permanent member of the United Nations. P5 often pit each other, was pit also each other no way out, can only find ways to find an opportunity to pit back a hand, to save face. In the end, we pit to pit to feel the loss of people against themselves, why not sit together to have a meeting, try to avoid unnecessary losses due to misunderstanding caused by what conflict, the United Nations is so out. If you only know pit the P5, can not carry the P5 retaliation, then you are Gaddafi, if you can carry, then the P5 good wine and good food to entertain you, from now on you are the world&apos;s sixth. India is trying to become the world&apos;s sixth permanent member by screwing China.</p><p>2</p><p>In the 1950s, India had a strong army and became a leader in the Third World through the Non-Violent Non-Aligned Movement. India&apos;s army was also very strong, and in World War II, India sent millions of troops to join the British army, and fought fierce battles against the elite German and Japanese armies, and performed quite well. At the time, India claimed that its army was invincible in Asia, even against the Chinese People&apos;s Liberation Army. At the time of India&apos;s founding, it demanded that the territory of China and India be divided according to the McMahon Line drawn by the British along the Himalayas, an unreasonable demand that was of course rejected by China, but India often sent troops to invade China&apos;s area of actual control on the sly to make things happen in an attempt to create a fait accompli. China won the U.S. in Korea, which India knows, but the disputed territory on the McMahon line is very favorable to India&apos;s terrain, India&apos;s side of the Great Plains, a flat river can be at will to send troops, while the Chinese side want to send troops to pass through the Tibetan plateau, and then over the Himalayas in order to enter the disputed territories, it is too difficult. So India is emboldened, if China dares to come, it will take advantage of the Himalayas to the PLA&apos;s logistical disadvantage, the PLA blocked in the foothills of the big mountains to pack a hard time. For India&apos;s increasingly arrogant behavior, China gave a stern warning, advised India to pull back from the brink. But there is no use ah, India simply do not think that the PLA dares to cross the Himalayas to fight him, geographic advantage is enough to wipe out the PLA&apos;s combat effectiveness. Since the talks could not come to an agreement, then under the hand to see the real chapter, in each other friction, tug of war after 3 years. 1962, China launched a self-defense counterattack war against India. Before the war, the PLA attached great importance to the combat power of the Indian army, and Zhang Guohua, commander of the Tibet Military Region, emphasized to his commanders in the combat meeting:</p><p>We are facing the Indian “ace” troops, not as good as the main force of Chiang Kai-shek&apos;s army, but not to be underestimated, we have to take out the strength of the Nationalist 181st Brigade and the 11th Division, and be prepared to fight a big battle, a tough battle, a bad battle, and be prepared to fight a second battle, a third battle.</p><p>The Tibet Military Region then deployed three border divisions and fought a localized battle that lasted 32 days from October 20 to November 21 (of which 15 days were spent in real combat). In the end, our troops suffered 722 casualties, 1,697 wounded, and annihilated 8,853 Indian troops, of whom 4,885 were killed and 3,968 captured. Captured Indian Brigadier General Davel, captured a variety of guns more than 6400 (quite), a variety of artillery 380 doors, rocket launchers and catapults 144 sets, 9 tanks, 437 cars, helicopters 5, a variety of guns and artillery shells more than 4.2 million rounds of a great victory, almost forcing the Indian government to withdraw from New Delhi. 1962, has become a decades-long grudging shame of India. In the battle against India, combat hero Pang Guoxing led a group of three people, and the organization lost contact with the enemy after breaking into the enemy, encountered an enemy artillery battalion, directly routed it. When Pang Guoxing returned to the team and gave a report to the organization, when it came to the reason why he attacked this artillery battalion, the answer given was actually:</p><p>Instead of surrendering, the enemy dared to return fire on me!</p><p>Because of this reason, Pang Guoxing is going to beat up this artillery battalion, and also in the confusion to break down the psychological defense of this artillery battalion leading to its collapse, simply fascinating and domineering. After the war, our army assessed the combat power of the Indian army, had made a clear conclusion, India&apos;s better performance of the ace army, the combat power is almost equivalent to the level of the Nationalist army middle class troops, not compared to the Nationalist Party&apos;s five main forces. So when the establishment of new China, not the Nationalist army is too bad, but the PLA is too strong, strong a little against the sky. 1949 Americans used to look down on the Nationalist army, until a year later on the Korean battlefield themselves encountered the PLA, only to wake up to, in fact, the Nationalist army fight really good. 1962 Sino-Indian war, directly pulled India off the throne of the third world allies, many of the little brother found India after being so unbeatable, lost respect for India and turned to China. Beating one of the incumbent P5 is the minimum condition for becoming the sixth P6, and after being defeated by China, India has completely lost its eligibility to become a P6 member. India often says that it now has nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers, and that it is no longer the India of 1962, but sadly, China is also long gone from the China of 1962. A few years ago, Indian soldiers provoked another incident in China&apos;s real-control zone, which was kicked away by the Chinese PLA, and India dared not do anything but protest. In 1952, China beat the United States, in 1962, China beat India, which allowed the world to recognize the strength of the new China, but not enough to let the United States and the Soviet Union pinched their noses and recognized China as a permanent member. 1972, China can become a permanent member of the United States, which the power of the door to the ICBMs to send over.</p><p>3</p><p>China&apos;s land forces are indeed invincible, even the Soviet Union, which is also good at land forces, did not take advantage of China after the 1969 battle with China on Jumbo Island.</p><p>But China&apos;s air force and navy can not ah, can only affect their own country door that small piece, no intervention in the world power. The United States wants to fight North Korea, China said no, then the United States indeed can not fight. But if the U.S. wants to hit Cuba, you China said no, useful, capable of your land forces to fly over ah. The real permanent members have the right of veto, this veto is not given to you by others, it is your own ability to win. Any one of the five permanent members, to say no to the affairs of any place on earth, if other countries dare to mess, he has the ability to be able to give you spoiled, this is called permanent members. So although China once again proved the strength of its land forces in the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict, it is true that China is still a bit short of permanent membership. China&apos;s ability to project its military power overseas was too weak. China was very poor at that time, not generally poor, burning money navy and air force really can not afford to support, but in 1964 China&apos;s atomic bomb explosion and 1971 intercontinental missile launch, so that China for the first time with the ability to interfere in global affairs. 1971 September 10, the world&apos;s first Dongfeng-5 intercontinental missile test-firing, the missile took off normally, the first and second stage separation on time, but because the missile on the However, because of a problem with the computer software on the missile, the second stage engine shut down 6 seconds early, causing the missile&apos;s landing point to be shifted by several hundred kilometers from the preset target. However, the Central Government personally characterized the ICBM test launch as a basic success and could not be considered a failure. Why? Because this characterization was not made by the Chinese, but by the world a month later. This ICBM test launch, although off target by a few hundred kilometers, but has proved that the Chinese have the intercontinental distance of the weapons delivery capability, just need to be repeatedly calibrated, to get the shooting accuracy is just a matter of time, plus China already has nuclear weapons, these combinations together, is simply too scary. When a China with an invincible army has ICBMs and nuclear weapons, he gains the ability to influence the world and there&apos;s no way for other countries to do anything to him. China had applied for permanent membership many times and kept failing, but the successful launch of the Dongfeng-5 intercontinental missile allowed China to finally succeed in becoming a member of the Standing Committee and gain a veto power recognized by the world. A month later, on October 25, 1971, at the 26th United Nations General Assembly, by an overwhelming majority, the People&apos;s Republic of China was granted permanent membership, ousting the Kuomintang representatives from the UN. This vote was really just a formality, because all five permanent members have veto power, and if one of them disagrees, it&apos;s useless for all of them to support you. But in this vote, the Americans, who fought China to death in Korea in 1952, and the Soviet Union, which had just fought China on Jumbo Island in 1969, also remained silent. What&apos;s more, the Republic of China (ROC), which represents the Kuomintang (KMT), didn&apos;t use its veto power on the proposal to expel the KMT from the United Nations, and agreed to shoot itself. The veto is a waste of paper in the hands of the Kuomintang in Taiwan, which does not even dare to use it, but in the hands of the new China, it is a real veto. For this day, China has been fighting for 20 years, and one month after the ICBM test launch, this dream of China, has been realized.</p><p>5</p><p>The 1971 Dongfeng-5, just a prototype, just proved that China has the potential for intercontinental strikes, it does not represent the strength, although it has the range of an ICBM, but the error of a few hundred kilometers, too big. No real intercontinental missiles, China&apos;s discourse, was weakened too much. So after the technology matured, China held a public ICBM test launch, which was China&apos;s first and only public test launch. On May 9, 1980, Xinhua announced to the world:</p><p>“The People&apos;s Republic of China will launch a test launch vehicle on the high seas within a circular sea area of 70 nautical miles radius, centered at 7 degrees 0 minutes south latitude and 171 degrees 33 minutes east longitude in the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland of China from May 12 to June 10, 1980.”</p><p>At 10:00 a.m. on May 18, 1980, a Dongfeng-5 intercontinental missile took off, and after a flight of 29 minutes and 58 seconds, it accurately hit the target in the predetermined sea area of the Pacific Ocean, 9,000 kilometers away, with an error in the point of impact of only 250 meters, which was far lower than the two-kilometer error target proposed by the missile development department. In 1981, China announced a major disarmament program, focusing on economic construction, and from 1981 to 1984, it disarmed more than 2 million troops, reducing its military strength from 6 million to 4 million, which was a shock to the world. 1984, the Dongfeng-5 intercontinental missile was launched on the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People&apos;s Republic of China (PRC). In 1984, the Dongfeng-5 intercontinental missile was unveiled at the 35th anniversary parade of the founding of the country. After the parade, China announced that it was going to carry out a million more disarming, compressing the size of its military force to another 3 million. China dares to cut half of the army, is the sense of security brought about by the sense of security, and this sense of security, in turn, is the Dongfeng-5 intercontinental nuclear missiles brought about. Peace is exchanged for force, and the stronger the force, the more peaceful the country and the happier its people.</p><p>6</p><p>Why are ICBMs so scary, because the missile&apos;s ability to surprise the world&apos;s first, in the face of missiles, ten defense nine empty is a very normal thing. And intercontinental missiles have the ability to cross all the strategic depth, no matter where you are, even if you are one hundred and eighty thousand miles from the front line are in danger of being covered by artillery fire, in front of the intercontinental nuclear missiles, the rear may be more dangerous than the front line. So ICBMs have a deadly threat to the rulers. During World War II, whether it was Germany or Japan, the United States or Britain, it was the ruling class that decided whether or not to start the war, but it was the civilian class that bled and died on the front line. Until the time of Japan&apos;s defeat was already set, the Japanese Emperor was still advocating the so-called 100-million-yard plan, and he would never surrender even if he had to shed all the blood of the Japanese people. Because of the limitations of weapons in World War II, even if the power of airplanes and cannons was great, you could not bomb the rulers. Germany&apos;s Hitler didn&apos;t swallow his gun and commit suicide until the Soviet Red Army&apos;s artillery had shattered Berlin in half. And the Emperor of Japan was forced to surrender only after the bombing of Tokyo and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. There was no way to end a war without hitting the enemy&apos;s capital, and that all ended with the invention of the intercontinental nuclear missile.In 1987, China&apos;s foreign exchange reserves were just over $2 billion, and that year China made a big deal, exporting 35 Dongfeng 3 intermediate-range missiles to the Saudis for $3.5 billion. Not Dongfeng 5, just Dongfeng 3, range of 2800 kilometers of medium-range missiles, just 35, China sold 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, directly to the treasury&apos;s foreign exchange reserves doubled, simply terrible. Saudi Arabia has not when the wrongdoer it, of course not, this kind of town killers, not at all can be measured with money to the existence of. After receiving the goods, the Saudis immediately put this baby to hide, hide a whole 30 years, until April 29, 2014 military parade ceremony, the Saudis are willing to take the antique Dongfeng 3 out of the debut. Why is Saudi Arabia so precious Dongfeng 3, because it is indeed a treasure. Saudi Arabia&apos;s missile base was built in 1989, the next year on the merits.August 2, 1990, Iraq&apos;s brazen invasion of Kuwait, less than a day, the fall of all of Kuwait, Iraqi 100,000 troops pushed into the eastern territory of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis urgently activated the Dongfeng 3 medium-range missiles, aiming all 35 Dongfeng 3s at Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, all of which were broadcast live in full on Saudi television, shouting at Saddam through the air. Saudi Arabia&apos;s meaning is very clear, Iraq, you can come, if you dare to cross the border, my 35 East Wind 3 will be launched one by one, no one bombing, just bombing you Saddam himself, out of a bombing you once, if you have the ability to nest in the ground for life do not come out. So Saddam immediately calmed down.  7</p><p>Intercontinental nuclear missiles can easily destroy those in power in the superpowers, putting the statistical class into the same death threat as the civilians, and from then on, a long-delayed peace has been realized among the superpowers, and everyone no longer dares to start a war easily. So the invention of ICBMs favors the civilian class over the ruling class, and favors upstarts like China over traditional hegemons like the United States. Civilians no longer need to be forced to break 100 million jades, because before that, the capital city of the ruler would be flattened by an ICBM and the whole country would be completely paralyzed. Saudi Arabia&apos;s bottom of the East Wind 3 has long been eliminated by the Chinese do not use, but has been Saudi Arabia as a treasure to hide, the gap between the country is so big. Saudi Arabia is rich again, in front of the P5 are paper mache like existence, the money is just temporarily placed in his place only. And China&apos;s Dongfeng 5 has long been unnecessary, China&apos;s intercontinental missile technology in all the way to evolution, other high-tech areas of China may be a little weaker, but in the intercontinental missiles and aerospace, China is not inferior to the United States in the slightest. China&apos;s most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile, is the Dongfeng-41 type, the range of 14,000 ~ 16,000 kilometers, the highest speed of 22 times the speed of sound, can carry 10 nuclear warheads, split out of the warheads can also be maneuvered in the air to change orbit, there is no defense. This is the most advanced intercontinental missile known to China. The secrecy of the Dongfeng-41 has been done so well that not even a single photo has been captured at home or abroad now, except for those few pictures taken by the country itself. But a proper unveiling of strategic weapons is supposed to be a way for the country to deter and maintain peace, and in the 2009 military parade ceremony, China had the Dongfeng 31A ICBM, which has a range of 11,000 kilometers, unveiled. In this picture, there are only 12 Dongfeng 31A intercontinental nuclear missiles, which you may think is not much. But I can tell you that this is already a big force deterrent, and just this one picture tells the world that China has at least 12 or more Dongfeng 31A intercontinental nuclear missiles. For many small countries, these weapons, can do a bomb to destroy a country. That one picture above, it contains 12 countries. You look at the military parade, you will know that the deterrence of force embodied in this, how powerful it is.</p><p>So once there are eleven national day parade, no matter what you are busy that day, must remember to watch, that is once every ten years, a rare opportunity, and there must be intercontinental nuclear missile array. When you see the finale of the intercontinental nuclear missile array, do not look at the past, this thing than you look ahead of all the weapons bundled together more powerful, which is China&apos;s trump card and bottom card. If your friend is a layman and thinks it&apos;s not as good as a rocket launcher, remember to send him this article to clear his mind. You should know that at least half of China&apos;s status and your peaceful life today is brought about by this little ICBM square.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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