In 1996, with the United States intervening in internal affairs, a Sino-US crisis also broke out in the Taiwan Strait, and the strength of our Chinese People's Liberation Army at that time, whether it was the navy, air force or army, was in fact no match for the US military, but we still confronted the United States and were ready for war with the United States.
So in the case of the huge disparity between the strength of the Chinese and US militaries at that time, if the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996 really evolved into a conflict between China and the United States, with the strength of the Chinese People's Liberation Army at that time, would we have any chance of winning?
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Although the Taiwan issue is China's internal affair, since the War of Liberation, there have always been Americans on the Taiwan issue, and after the founding of New China, the United States has also been interfering in China's internal affairs, and has planned to give Chiang Kai-shek the opportunity to "** the mainland" by aiding Taiwan.
It can be said that since the 50s of the last century, the United States has been trying to turn Taiwan into its own "** base", hoping to turn the Taiwan issue into an international issue and make Taiwan never return to China's embrace. Therefore, in the past 70 years, the United States has also created many crises in the Taiwan Strait.
5 of the last centuryChronology to 9In the years, there were three crises in the Taiwan Strait caused by the United States
The first is the 1Year to 1years of crisis in the Taiwan StraitAt that time, Taiwan signed a "mutual defense treaty" with the United States, and then invaded the southeast coast of the mainland with the assistance of the United States, and it was not until August 1955, with the Sino-US negotiations in Geneva, that the Taiwan Strait crisis came to an end.
Subsequently in the 1Year to 1yearsAt that time, the United States tried to get Taiwan out, hoping that the United States would let the two sides of China "draw a strait and rule" and permanently separate, so after seeing clearly the intentions of the United States, China launched an artillery attack on Kinmen, which was also because of the support and instigation of the United States, the second Taiwan Strait crisis broke out between China and the United States.
This time the Taiwan Strait crisis lasted for a total of 21 years, during which China experienced three years of natural disasters and that 10-year special period, in the Kinmen area, the Taiwan Strait crisis still continued, until January 1979, with the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the second Taiwan Strait crisis officially ended.
The last is at 1Year to 1The Taiwan Strait crisis that broke out in the year. The cause of this crisis was that in 1995, the United States allowed the then leader of the Taiwan region to visit the United States, and during his visit to the United States, he openly propagated the idea of "seeking independence" on many occasions in a vain attempt to create "independence".
Therefore, in order to "oppose the **" from July 1995 to March 1996, our military successively conducted four large-scale military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, but unexpectedly, the United States openly supported Taiwan, and in January 1996, it even sent a two-aircraft carrier battle group to the Taiwan Strait in an attempt to deter China.
At that time, although the gap in military strength between China and the United States was very large, in the face of the blatant provocation of the United States, it was naturally impossible for us to back down, so when the US ** ship approached the Taiwan Strait, our military immediately entered the highest state of readiness, and the whole army was ready to go to war with the United States at any time, and no matter what the cost, we would defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
During this period, China also issued a warning to the United States, and successively conducted a number of missile test-firing activities to warn the United States and the Taiwan authorities; it can be said that the eyes of the whole world were focused on the Taiwan Strait at that time, because the two sides were tense, and a major war also gave people the feeling that it could start at any time.
Then if it is 1If war really breaks out in the Taiwan Strait this year, what are the chances of our army winning?
How big was the gap between the strength of our army and the US army back then?In fact, this can be seen from a humiliating incident that happened in 1994. At that time, in order to warn North Korea, the United States sent an aircraft carrier battle group to blockade the west coast of North Korea.
At that time, because of the deterioration of Sino-US relations, China did not know about this, so in October of this year, a nuclear submarine of our army returning from training mistakenly broke into the blockade circle of the US military and was tracked and surrounded by the US military for more than 70 hours.
At that time, in order to rescue the nuclear submarine trapped by the US military, because the Chinese Navy did not have a capable warship at that time, it could not constitute a deterrent to the US military, so it could only dispatch fighters to rescue, at the beginning the US military also sent F14 carrier-based aircraft to confront our fighters, until our pilots were in a hurry, because if it continued to drag, the officers and soldiers trapped in the nuclear submarine were very likely to be more than lucky, so they turned on the fire control radar, and the US military saw that we were really moving, which lifted the encirclement of our nuclear submarine.
It can be said that because our first-class equipment at that time was far behind the US military, and there was a significant generation gap, the US military would show off its military might and "play" our nuclear submarines, which is why after the outbreak of the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996, the US military directly sent a "Nimitz-class" aircraft carrier battle group to deter our military.
At that time, the combat capability of the US aircraft carrier battle group was absolutely the world's top level, and the US military also sent a double aircraft carrier battle group at that time, which was indeed very oppressive for our military at that time, after all, we did not have aircraft carriers in our hands at that time, nor did we have warships with strong attack capabilities, and even in terms of missiles, the attack capability of US warships was very limited.
At that time, our main fighters were still second-generation and third-generation aircraft, among which the most advanced model of the Chinese Air Force at that time, the "Su-27", was imported from Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and there were only more than 20 of them, compared with the carrier-based aircraft F14 and F18 of the US military at that time, not only did they have no advantage in terms of quantity, but their comprehensive strength was far inferior to that of the US fighters.
To sum up, during the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996, we simply did not have the ability to sink US aircraft carriers, nor did we have the ability to fight against US aircraft carrier battle groups and carrier-based aircraft groups.
Later, many veterans who participated in the Taiwan Strait crisis recalled that at that time, everyone was ready to go to war at any time, and at the same time wrote a suicide note, ready to sacrifice for the country at any time, because everyone knew that our military strength could not defeat the United States at that time, after all, if the conflict in the Taiwan Strait broke out, it would be a naval battle, not a battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
It was also after the end of the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996 that our military once again faced up to the gap between us and the US military, so we also fought hard to catch up, which has gone through more than 20 years of development, and now we have finally narrowed the gap with the US military in terms of conventional military strength, and even overtook in many aspects, catching up with and surpassing the US military.
Therefore, now the United States no longer dares to openly drive the aircraft carrier battle group to China's doorstep to provoke, and the US military does not dare to start a war with China, because now in China's coastal areas, once a war breaks out between China and the United States, China will completely defeat the US military, and there is no suspense.