I think you're manufacturing the kind of PLA in your mind that you would like to believe exists, to see what kind of response you get back, out of curiosity. T

I think you're manufacturing the kind of PLA in your mind that you would like to believe exists, to see what kind of response you get back, out of curiosity. The PLA in your mind is a super well-functioning, well-oiled, "modern army," which obeys commands perfectly, has no competing business interests paying for different activities and agendas, and is a top-down command and control type of Army with a heroic Dwight Eisenhower type of guy, marching precisely 2.8 million men down into Hong Kong in these neat little columns until they occupy all of the streets, and start raising up Chinese flags or something. That's just not at all reflective of what we know. It's a lot more opaque and there are so many unknowns. We do know China is rife with corruption and there are tons of competing interests, and the military is in no way exempt from that. One can become a multi-multi millionaire if not billionaire working in the military in China, if that gives any inkling of how a better representation of what the Chinese military being used in such an operation may look like.