Weeks have now passed since the initial invasion of Canada by Chinese forces. Resistance has been slowly mounting as new recruits are being expedited through Basic Training and new units are forming in Edmonton.

The Chinese have been relentless, however, and have used their superior numbers and technology to great advantage so far. The initial massive push in the first two weeks has been greatly slowed by the Rocky Mountains. Canadian forces had been mounting ambushes along the mountain passes around the Alberta-BC border. The Chinese were forced to grind their way through the high, cold mountains to try and reach the other side. From there they would have open, flat prairies all the way to Winnipeg.

British Columbia slowly fell to the Chinese, as the main points of resistance were in the mountains and near the city of Vancouver.

The entire province has now come under the control of China. The only remaining pocket of resistance is Vancouver, where the city is essentially under siege. Canadian forces still control the peninsula containing New Westminster, Richmond, and the city of Vancouver itself. Canadian troops have formed a line across the isthmus of the peninsula. They are firmly holding that line, but are losing men every day.

The Chinese have passed through the mountains into northern Alberta, despite the best efforts of Canadian troops. They have hit the Prairies in the north and in a matter of days they are now inside the city of Edmonton, and an offensive has begun on the city.

Further to the south, the Chinese troops are further back, still partially in the mountains but are coming downhill. Fighting is especially intense around the Banff area, where the Canadians currently occupy a bulge in Chinese positions. They are moving out of the foothills, however, and are within 15 km of the city of Calgary.

From now on I will upload an image showing current Chinese positions whenever I make an update. You can see the current image at HERE!

The pencil line is the current location of the battlefront line. The image is big, so make sure to have your screen resolution as large as you can manage unless you want to scroll around a lot. It's also in relatively poor quality because of the image hosting service I use.

Cpl Curran [ No comment ]

The Chinese continue to push inland, facing little resistance. As of today they have moved as far as 400 km from the coast, almost reaching the border between British Columbia and Alberta. Currently the area of occupation is:

Beginning at its most northerly point along the US-Canada border at the Portland Canal, and moving in a generally southeastern path to the north edge of Tweedsmuir National Park and Ootsa Lake. It continues along the lake coast and up Nechako River to the meeting of the Nechako and Fraser Lake at the town of Fort Fraser before moving westerly to the Fraser River, encompassing the city of Prince George before continuing north then southeasterly along the Fraser, Canoe and Columbia Rivers to Revelstoke. Turning east, the frontline moves along Shustwa Lake and the Thompson River, meeting back up with the Fraser at Lytton. The front goes north along the river before veering east at Lillooet, travelling southwesterly to the town of Squamish. The occupied area includes also the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island, including the capital of BC, Victoria.

The Chinese are poised to take the major city of Vancouver, and resistance is still minimal. The Chinese are using their tanks to move quickly along mountain roads and are cutting off Canadian supply lines. However, in the most easterly part of the frontlines, the mountains are getting much taller and the Chinese are having a harder go of it.

The Canadian government has enacted the War Measures Act, and instituted a draft. All males of the ages of 18 and over who are fit to serve are required to report to the nearest recruiting centre. Recruits are being expedited through Basic Training and units are forming to be sent west as quickly as they can be.

The Chief of Defence Staff is very hopeful that the Chinese advance can be stalled in the high Rocky Mountains around the Alberta-BC border, where their tanks are less effective and Chinese troops are more prone to ambush. If the Chinese were to break through the mountains to reach the wide flat prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, they would be able to move very quickly and it would be almost too overwhelming to prevent the Chinese from capturing those three provinces.

More recruits are coming daily into the PPCLI as units are beginning to be deployed. Rumour has it that Joint Task Force-2, Canada's elite Special Ops team, has arrived in Edmonton and is getting ready to join the fight.

MGen Lowell [ No comment ]

China has become beligerent over the past few years towards Taiwan. Taiwan is the island right off the coast of China, and was formerly a province of mainland China until it rose up in civil war and demanded autonomy, which it got. China has always declared that Taiwan is a "rogue province" and that it must be brought back into the fold of Chinese power. Taiwan has remained under strong influence of China, but has always had its own government and military forces. China has maintained that if Taiwan ever declared independence, they would invade to prevent the tiny island from becoming a nation.

And Taiwan did just that.

The Taiwanese declared independence from China on April 1, 2004. It was immediately recognized as an independent state by the United Nations. China responded to the declaration of independence by mounting an invasion of the island nation. Taiwanese forces were completely overrun by the more numerous and more technologically advanced Chinese, and the entire country was back under Chinese control by the middle of April. China promptly annexed Taiwan, making Taiwan again officially a Chinese province.

The United Nations was understandably outraged by this unprovoked invasion. The UN Security Council wanted China out of Taiwan immediately. However, since China is a permanent member of the UNSC, there was much debate in the chambers over what to do. Finally a draft resolution was written up as an ultimatum, giving China until May 30th to pull out of Taiwan completely and recall all territorial claims on the island. It was doomed to failure from the beginning, as China, being a permanent member, holds veto power over the council. A vote was held on April 21st, 2004. Other than China, it was voted "yes" by everyone else. However, the resolution failed because China voted "no" and it appeared that the UN would be unable to do anything.

NATO decided to take matters into its own hands. It adopted the Security Council resolution as its own, issuing a direct ultimatum to China: Leave Taiwan and restore its independence by May 30th. Past that date, NATO would not guarantee that military force would not be used against the Chinese military to remove them from the island nation.

The Chinese were furious that NATO would "go against the wishes of the United Nations", as they said (it was actually unanimously approved in the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly had issued a statement against China, so the Chinese clearly had little support). As a result, North Korea signed an alliance pact on April 26th with China and Chinese troops began to move in to North Korea in case of NATO action. Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam all signed on to the agreement on April 30th, and Cuba (the only other communist nation on Earth) joined on May 2nd.

This understandably made US President George W. Bush apprehensive. He diverted troops going to Iraq and Afghanistan away from there and towards South Korea and Japan to counter the Chinese buildup in North Korea. The Southern States of the US were also fortified against possible Cuban action. Other NATO countries followed suit, with Canada committing troops to South Korea.

May was tense as more and more troops entered the region. NATO was in South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, and lots of other small islands in the South Pacific, against the coalition of China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cuba.

The deadline passed at 11:59 PM on May 31st. Airstrikes began on targets in North Korea and China on June 1st, 2004 at 1:24 AM, and in Cuba at 3:15 AM. Military and infrastructure targets alike were hit hard and fast all over east Asia.

The Chinese and North Koreans replied by scrambling fighters. Dogfights occurred all over the skies. Losses of aircraft and men were heavy on both sides. US Delta Force was sent in numerous times along the coasts of China to pick up downed pilots. Navy ships scrambled around the Pacific and South China Seas doing the same. This went on for days, 24 hours a day.

The Chinese North Koreans decided they'd had enough. They invaded South Korea at 6:24 AM on June 12th, and pushed down as far as the 38th parallel. They stopped there on the 14th, demanding that airstrikes end immediately before they pulled back. This was not going to happen, so on the 18th the invasion resumed. Fighting was heavy with losses on both sides very strong. Seoul was captured on the 23rd, and the Communist forces kept pushing farther and farther south. NATO troops could do little to stop them, putting up fierce fights and killing thousands of Chinese in a battle while losing men at a much lower number. They were overrun however, by the sheer numbers of Chinese, who would come in wave after wave, advancing only inches at the cost of hundreds of lives, until the NATO positions were forced to pull back for lack of ammo.

This went on until NATO troops were finally pushed into the sea around Pusan on the 18th of August. A sea evacuation was performed to move the surviving troops to Japan, and over 700,000 NATO troops were safely moved.

Japan appeared the next likely target. Communist forces invaded on September 2nd and were met by demoralized and bruised NATO troops, many of whom had gone home for a time to recover from the invasion of South Korea. The remainder wasn't even a match for the Chinese forces, who had also mounted a simultaneous invasion of the Philippines. They were helped by sympathetic (mostly rural) Japanese, who saw the Chinese as removing the white man from their lands after 60 years (since WWII). NATO troops soon gave up on Japan and the Philippines, and returned to North America and Australia to regroup with the hope of mounting a counterattack in the new year. The pullout was officially ended on October 11th, Columbus Day in the US and Thanksgiving in Canada.

But the Chinese did not give NATO time to rest and regroup.

Communist paratroopers began to fall from the sky at about 5:34 AM on October 29th, 2004. They landed in Alaska along the coast and at points along the west coast of Canada. Airstrikes hit major cities all along the Pacific coast of North America from Anchorage to San Diego. At 7:46 AM, Chinese troops landed in Alaska and British Columbia, near the points where the airborne troops had landed 2 hours earlier. They didn't meet a lot of resistance and were able to complete a linkup with most of the airborne troops by early afternoon. It was clear that the Chinese had invaded Canada to provide a base from which to launch an invasion of the USA. Cuban forces began landing in Florida and southern Texas in mid-afternoon and were able to establish a beach-head, effectively aiding the Chinese in Canada by restricting President Bush from moving troops into Canada against the Chinese. He would need his forces to fight the Cubans in the south. The Chinese continued to push inland throughout the day.

The Chinese currently occupy parts of British Columbia in 3 major areas: an area extending 30 KM inland and comprising the coastline from Observatory Inlet to the Douglas Channel, including the city of Prince Rupert; an area extending approximately 50 KM inland and comprising the coastline from Burke Channel to the Klinaklini River (a mostly unpopulated area); and an area of Vancouver Island extending approximately 40 KM inland from the west side of the island and including the coastline from Kyuquot Sound to Barkley Sound, including the cities of Gold River and Port Alberni. This final group is approximately 90 KM outside of Victoria, BC at the moment.

Extra units of the Royal Canadian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (including A Company) are being formed in Edmonton, AB to meet the Chinese invasion.

Capt Lowell [ No comment ]