Chinese Propaganda: The US Military Is Making Master Chief Armor; Me: Awesome!
from the fake-it-until-you-make-it dept
For some reason, the propaganda machines of the Far East appear to operating as though their singular mission was to make me, personally, laugh myself to death. I admit this is an enticing military strategy, but so far the laughter hasn't led to death just yet. That said, I appreciate it when, for instance, North Korea does Photoshop so poorly that it ends up looking like the world's most boring Warhol painting.
But there's an arms race for everything, apparently, including in the arena of doing propaganda hilariously wrong. That seems to be the only explanation for why China's state media would up the nerd-quotient in their attempts by making it clear the United States military is pumping out new armor identical to that of Halo's Master Chief.
The program was New Defence Observations, a military show (read: propaganda), on Channel 7. On the October 19 episode, which is recently causing a stir in China, a segment talked about the "smart amour." The program compared the new U.S. military tech to Iron Man, using an image from Iron Man 3. In the upper corner, it clearly says, "movie image" (电影剧照). Then, the show flashes to the image below:
Yeah, that's The Chief, alright. What the report called "U.S. Military Concept Armour" is actually a promotional shot from the fan-made Halo film, 405th, which I'm at least somewhat certain has not been contracted by the U.S. government to do anything at all. That said, this report raises several questions. What good does China telling its own citizens that America has kick-ass new space-marine armor do? You'd think it'd just scare the hell out of its citizens and instill in them the belief that their own military was behind the space-marine-ing times.
Also, why the hell doesn't the U.S. military have this awesome armor yet? The Covenant might be just around the corner, you fools!
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This is propaganda to convince their own people they need to pony up more money.
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It looks like a tiny version of the "Missile Gap" propaganda promulgated by Jack Kennedy's supporters during the Cold War.
Here's manipulation of the public through news media releases of "classified intelligence" was done in 1959:
1) Claim the Russians have 1500 ICBMs
2) Claim the US is dangerously behind in the arms race because we only have 130 ICBMs.
3) Make sure no one finds out that the true number of ICBMs Russia has at the time is 4.
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They don't trust anything that comes from the government.
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Hell - anecdote time. My former boss emigrated to the US from Ukraine (then the Soviet Union) when he was six. I asked him "you're Russian, how the hell can you trust the government?". He said the US government was different. What can you say to that?
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Given what's been in MSM I think I understand their reluctance.
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Distrust for ones own government is one.
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I facepalmed so hard
Stop trying to outdo North Korea. Don't you want to be a world superpower someday right?
Side Note: I would high-tail it to the nearest recruiting station if they ever made Master Chief style armor the standard combat gear. Hell, I'd settle for some good old ODST gear...
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Let me rephrase:
World's LEADING superpower.
Last I checked most of the world still tends to turn to the US first for help when shit hits the fan, not China.
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In the off chance you're actually curious, the biggest barrier to making this happen is a power source.
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This is what happens if you don't believe
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Why so much Anger in article?
Are the Chines on the right track with this article they promoted, in promoting the idea that American soldiers have advanced weaponry, will it encourage weapons manufacturers to develop the next generation of sci-fi weaponry.
The US has proven beyond any doubt they are unable to keep their secrets secret, we hear of advanced stealth fighters copied down to a hole that was drilled incorrectly in the air frame of the first fully function aircraft.
I am wondering if the Chinese might not have access to some details of this advanced technology, maybe the US has developed it but does not want to spend the money outfitting anyone with it, damn even giving the men on the ground the most basic tech seems to be a problem for the military.I have heard many stories of Soldiers buying privately things the military do not supply or where the quality of what they do supply is so inferior that it is a threat to lives using it.
I would not be surprised in the near future if Soldiers were buying their own weapons and ammunition or weapons that can use the military ammunition just so they have rifles or pistols that they know is not inferior, and prone to jamming.
I wonder if they are maybe worried that China will be developing these advanced weapons now as they see them as a threat so America will have to invest in developing them and actually outfitting their troops with them.
Or maybe this is a political game to encourage more investment of taxpayers money with a few trillion demanded to keep up with the big Chinese threat the US military seems to see over every hill.
Other than my little rant, i really would like to know why the author is so crazy about this, crazier than anyone has the right to be actually.
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As for 'this advanced technology', it's armor from a fictional character, one from a video game, something you'd know had you read the article, so I don't think there's any worry about China getting their hands on the schematics for it.
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Masterchief armor
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Normally they do not consider it cost effective to protect soldiers, as they are readily replaceable by ensuring the minimum wage is a working in poverty wage and the only way out for many is serving in the military.
However the US military industrial complex reviewed that fiscal policy when they figured out that by providing super expensive somewhat ineffective armour, that they can generate at least $100,000 dollars profit each time a soldier gets severely injured or killed as the armour is non-repairable and requires full replacement.
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So, how funny is it that China knew this already?
Not as funny as it was a couple of days ago.
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Me and my new armor
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