A social media post marking the 99th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army argues that China's military power has progressed by roughly a century's worth of development since the mid-1970s. The assessment highlights the scale of China's military modernization, though it remains an unverified opinion.
A social media post circulating on Sunday, the 99th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), asserted that China's military capability has advanced by the equivalent of 100 years of development since the mid-1970s. The post measures the gap in terms of progress in military technology and development, reflecting a common narrative in Chinese state-aligned discourse about the PLA's rapid modernization. The claim comes as the PLA marks its anniversary amid ongoing international scrutiny of China's military expansion. Earlier this year, the U.S. Pentagon added over a dozen Chinese firms, including Alibaba and BYD, to a list of entities with ties to the PLA. The assessment in the post is not independently verified and represents the view of the poster.
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