CCP Learning Military Tactics, Strategy from Ukraine War: Senate Committee

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been taking lessons on military aggression and dealing with foreign leaders from the Ukraine War, an Australian Senate Committee has heard. “The Chinese are very good at learning from other people’s wars,” said Mick Ryan, retired major general of the Australian Army, on Aug. 5. “They started watching during the Falklands War. They learned a lot during the 1991 Gulf War. In fact, their entire reform [and opening up] program they’re currently undergoing is based on a lot of the lessons from 1991 they watched,” he told the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. “The 2003 invasion of Iraq. They watched the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. They’ve watched these wars very closely. It’s been a test bed for weapons. It’s been a test bed for ideas. It’s been a test bed for policies … I think they have learned lessons about what to do with foreign leaders of countries that you invade.”...