"In the final scene, the commandos rush up the beach with assault rifles in hand."
Mainland China and its pretty little offshoot Taiwan have been poised on the brink since ol’ Chiang Kai-Shek and his Chinese Nationalists (the Kuomintang) fled the mainland in 1949, roundly defeated by Mao Zedong’s Commie bastards following that country’s twenty-two year civil war.
Both of ‘em were bastards, as it were, the Nationalists declaring martial law in Taiwan and not lifting the jackboot from the people’s neck until 1987, the island’s sand reddened by the blood of 140,000 of its citizens.
Anyway, mainland China was, is, always gonna come for Taiwan.
And, as revealed today, the People Liberation Army, has turned to jet-powered surfboards to get its commandos onto Taiwan’s beaches.
Military enthusiast Louis Cheung tweeted a 24-second clip, ripped from a China Youth Daily vid posted on Weibo, showing PLA commandoes on the revolutionary craft.
PLA’s new equipment for individual landing operations pic.twitter.com/5gSTs1W9x0
— 彩云香江 (@louischeung_hk) September 27, 2022
Taiwan News reports,
In the video, soldiers in black wetsuits can be seen carrying large, waterproof rucksacks and they lie prone on surfboards. The tiny craft are only large enough to hold one man and are self-propelled. One rider can be seen wearing goggles, and the face of another can be seen in another shot as he peers over the board.
After focusing on individual riders, the camera pans out to show a full squad of 12 men who can be seen riding the surfboards in tight formation. Towards the end of the video, the frogmen can be seen landing on a beach and discarding their boards as they are guided in by a man waving red flags.
In the final scene, the commandos rush up the beach with assault rifles in hand.
The obvious question is, should the West muzzle the Commies and save Taiwan or let the remnants of the Kuomintang fall on its sword.
The sensible money would be to give China its prize and hope we all get along although I believe that once the Reds’ nostrils quiver in the stink of victory they won’t stop until the Pacific is theirs.
Therefore, affix your bayonets boys, we going over the top!
Banzai! Etc.
Or no?
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I recently recoiled aghast and emotionally immobilised, when two blokes arrived in a swanky Mercedes G Class, removed two motorised foil SUPs (!), donned helmets, then proceeded to terrorise a well-populated mid north coast point break.
The horror. The horror…
Outnumbered when we go over the top, bayonets fixed.. Yes. But, I reckon one average Aussie could take 5 Chinese belly e-boarders ahead of an honourable death defending the commie Islands from invasion. I choose Fiji. To wage my battle, pretty sunsets before I die. We’d still be fucked, but the papers would have blood soaked headlines for a few weeks.
They have no shame
Of course the Chinese are dick draggers
Fisher?
Unless it’s made by kids and filled with helium, I ain’t riding it.
No no no. The key issue here is
“…landing on a beach and discarding their boards” .
All those supercool, limited-edition military-spec, jet-black wavestorms tossed away like used paper cups.
A river of VAL tears being shed over this.
Unchill. No?
Light a candle for a tech bro.
powered by recycled Chinese restaurant food grease!
Black sprinter vans will deploy to capture the spent materiel on the beach
A few years back we were arriving at a quiet spot on the Mornington Penninsula as 2 vans full of the new resident divers were acting obnoxious as they were loading up to leave.
Speaking to a local diver as we left, he told me how they have rapped the place of green lip Abalone.
He said the work in teams with jet skis.
Nice
No need for those newfangled thingamajigs you lovely Chinese troops…President Biden is leaving you the keys.
an American company, I think W.A.V.E. Vehicles must have outsourced this product to the PRC in the 70s…only took them 50 years to perfect them…and they still can’t stand up! F/J&HB
Taiwan today Manly tomorrow.
You’ve fallen into the ChiCom’s long-term strategy; make defence of Taiwan so costly in materiel and manpower that it’s politically unpalatable to the West (differing from an undefeatable victory the West couldn’t stop)
Who can blame em? Delicious morsels! I’d rather be eating abalone etc!
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looks familiar to me but can’t quite finger it…
Always was suspicious of those electric thingamajigs. Lock up anyone who has one in a filtration camp
Peter Schroff was right all along!
What?
Never thought that boogers would be described as “awesome’ here on BG.
I, for one, welcome our dick dragging overlords.
Jet powerd spongers
Holy shit you realise how many Chinese are going to take up surfing now!!
Imagine the spin WSL and Elo are going to put on this for an untapped market and increased eyeballs
War Surf League (c).
Stoked to be able to finally release my new collaboration with PRC, the Mao 6’1
Kurtz was wrong.
Colonel Kilgore, actually
Pedant !
“Don’t these people ever give up?”
Kilgore was spot on
Oliver Kurtz!
Any Kurtz in a storm.
Taiwan flags!