The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN; Chinese: 中国人民解放军海军; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn Hǎijūn), also known as the People's Navy, Chinese Navy, or PLA Navy, is the maritime service branch of the People's Liberation Army, and the largest navy per number of ships in the world.
The PLAN traces its lineage to naval units fighting during the Chinese Civil War and was established on 23 April 1949. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the Soviet Union provided assistance to the PLAN in the form of naval advisers and export of equipment and technology.
Until the late 1980s, the PLAN was largely a riverine and littoral force (brown-water navy). In the 1990s, following the fall of the Soviet Union and a shift towards a more forward-oriented foreign and security policy, the leaders of the Chinese military were freed from worrying overland border disputes. Traditionally subordinated to the PLA Ground Force, PLAN leaders were now able to advocate for a renewed attention towards the seas.
History
The PLAN traces its lineage to units of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) who defected to the People's Liberation Army towards the end of the Chinese Civil War. In 1949, Mao Zedong asserted that "to oppose imperialist aggression, we must build a powerful navy". During the Landing Operation on Hainan Island, the communists used wooden junks fitted with mountain guns as both transport and warships against the ROCN. The navy was established on 23 April 1949 by consolidating regional naval forces under Joint Staff Department command in Jiangyan (now in Taizhou, Jiangsu).
The Naval Academy was set up at Dalian on 22 November 1949, mostly with Soviet instructors. It then consisted of a motley collection of ships and boats acquired from the Kuomintang forces. The Naval Air Force was added two years later. By 1954 an estimated 2,500 Soviet naval advisers were in China—possibly one adviser to every thirty Chinese naval personnel—and the Soviet Union began providing modern ships.
With Soviet assistance, the navy reorganized in 1954 and 1955 into the North Sea Fleet, East Sea Fleet, and South Sea Fleet, and a corps of admirals and other naval officers was established from the ranks of the ground forces. In shipbuilding the Soviets first assisted the Chinese, then the Chinese copied Soviet designs without assistance, and finally the Chinese produced vessels of their own design. Eventually Soviet assistance progressed to the point that a joint Sino-Soviet Pacific Ocean fleet was under discussion.
Through the upheavals of the late 1950s and 1960s the Navy remained relatively undisturbed. Under the leadership of Minister of National Defense Lin Biao, large investments were made in naval construction during the frugal years immediately after the Great Leap Forward.
In the 1980s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Liu Huaqing, the navy developed into a regional naval power, though naval construction continued at a level somewhat below the 1970s rate. Liu Huaqing was an Army Officer who spent most of his career in administrative positions involving science and technology. It was not until 1988 that the People's Liberation Army Navy was led by a Naval Officer. Liu was also very close to Deng Xiaoping as his modernization efforts were very much in keeping with Deng's national policies
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I left a comment with a throwaway reddit account yesterday, and heard a streamer read it aloud just now while I was vacuuming with my headphones on
No, because I don't want someone to be able to link the two accounts. I just wanted to post about the odd feeling that it was - because I'm anonymous but felt seen or smthing
TTRPGs and CRPGs really inspired me when I was a wanderer. Carry Capacity and Inventory management are a big deal when you live out of your backpack.
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The news about my nephew's tumor isn't great. It's an aggressive type that doesn't respond well to chemo, so it's going to have to be radiation, which can have bad side effects on such a small child. It might permanently effect his balance and/or hearing, both of which he can survive without, but still, not something you want to have happen. Especially since he isn't talking yet, so there's no way to explain to him why his little world might start going quiet. But the main thing is survival, so we'll get through whatever side effects might happen.
The good news is that there have been great improvements in radiation and they're doing proton treatments now, which are much more targeted and successful. So the survival rates you see for this type are pretty bad, but those rates are including patient data for decades, so they don't reflect the better survival rates they have now. So we're clinging to that and trying to stay positive.
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I would like to officially thank streaming websites and adblockers for allowing me to consume media without having to subscribe to a gazillion mediocre web services. My mate offered to gift me an Apple subscription to watch Foundation. I literally said "lol please don't".
The Foundation adaptation is dreadful anyway, don't bother watching it. Changing Salvor Hardin from a personable, witty, science-educated politician whose defining trait is abhorring violence into a mopey trigger-happy loner is one of the dumbest, nastiest things to happen in any book-to-movie adaptation ever.
Make him a her, sure, I'm on board with that - Asimov stories are basically synonymous with "bechdel test failures". The same goes for Gaal Dornick. I have zero issue with making book-him to be a TV-her. Make Hardin a person of colour, also a perfectly fine decision. Asimov never described peoples' skin tones so it's not like we need to go with anglo-saxon. But making TV Hardin the exact opposite of Book Hardin in all other respects is what pisses me off. Book-Hardin defended his world by political manipulation of neighbouring worlds, not by strapping a gun to his back and LARPing as a Monster Hunter player character.
The emperor clone bullshit is a close second in the "idiotic adaptation decisions" race. In the books, the aristocracy are basically all failsons who have no real agency, and galactic events happen because of material conditions. The failures of the aristocracy to handle important matters that lead to the decline of empire is kinda the point of the whole book series. The original stories that would later be known as the Foundation trilogy are basically "Historical Materialism: An Introductory Course". But no, gotta have personal drama in the TV adaptation, which means some Great Man bullshit.
Good analysis. Ya, I noticed the great man bullshit in there as well.
Historical Materialism: An Introductory Course
Oof that's good
Youtubers love to change the title of their 90-minute video essay five times in a week to try to appease the algorithm, but maybe the problem all along was that your movie-length video is so unfocused that it could have so many nearly unrelated titles?
I wish they'd be more honest and call their videos "me infodumping about a game for 6 hours" instead of a "retrospective", or "me telling you everything I've learned about a subject" instead of "analysis"
I have no problem with the content as such (I find that it's good background if you're doing other things) but like, you're not really doing much analysis if 80% of the video's length is you describing what is inside the game at full length with no summarization and the remaining 20% is just "Yeah I kinda liked this, it felt like a unique choice and it landed well"
I just wish more youtubers would learn to edit. I don't mean edit in the technical sense of cutting and pasting and joining clips, but in the editorial sense of cutting out things like "umms" and "uhhs" and dead air and unfocused sentences.
I know I'm getting old, but I like my essays in written form. Unless you're going to be doing some real editing and adding decent visuals, I don't want to watch you speak to the camera for an hour.
Honestly I've stopped watching video essays. So many of them are either overproduced or bloated drivel just to churn something out regularly that matches an arbitrary algorithm-length target; I'd much rather read a regular essay that's had some thought put into it.
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I know I shouldn't play video games all weekend, but I basically spent zero dollars.
Vidjyas are much less expensive than most forms of entertainment. I have a bunch of 4-player couch games on my steam account specifically so I can have people come over and hang out and play and no one has to spend more than gas money and whatever drinks and snacks they want to bring. " Alas, then Covid happened.
the ultimate example of how people don't become revolutionaries (just) from learning about them, it has to be in your interests. aside from the odd class traitor of course.
Wtf breton is a real European ethnicity and not just a thing todd howard made up?
I didn't fuck my cat. I didn't cum on my cat. I didn't put my dick anywhere near my cat.