The Chinese military confirmed on their latest recruitment video posted by the People’s Liberation Army Navy that the country is “prepared for war” and “will not yield an inch of territory to foreigners.” The more than four-minute video was first posted by the PLA, it contains all the islands being claimed and reclaimed by China and also shows off its firepower during war games in disputed seas.
Watch the Recruitment Video of Chinese Liberation Army:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8_KRMdbbs
Based upon the video, it opens with Chinese nationals graduating from university and engaging in various sports activities. There’s a martial arts music and footage of the Senkaku Islands that are also claimed by both Japan and Taiwan aside from the reefs in the West Philippine Sea.
Based upon the Chinese text translated into English, China claims three million square kilometers of ocean under its jurisdiction – an area that includes as many as 6,700 islands.
The video also noted that “71 percent of the globe we depend on is blue water… wherever there is blue water, we will be there to secure navigation… China’s oceanic and overseas interests are expanding rapidly… our land is vast but we will not yield an inch of our territory to foreigners.”
In a separate report by the US Office of Naval Intelligence, China’s claim on “three million square kilometers of blue territory” would incorporate “nearly 90 percent of the area within the major bodies of water within the First Island Chain, including the Bo Hai, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.”
