The Korean war and Chinese volunteers—seen through Chinese eyes

This is how the poorly-equipped Chinese People’s volunteers(CPV) defeated the Most technologically advanced and militarily superior country on this planet (the United States) during the Korean War, sixty five years ago. Bear in mind that China could not even produce a single tank in 1950 when the war broke out.

1. Sheer determination and morale to drive invaders away from the Chinese border With North Korea. The US army had advanced all the way to the border with China before the CPV cross the Yalu river to resist US aggression. China was recovering from a hundred years of humiliation under foreign powers up till 1949.
2. Chinese scouts disguised as South Korean soldiers infiltrated deep behind UN lines and provide target acquisition for Chinese artillery to pound on concentration of heavy armour
3. Superior flanking tactics which enabled the CPV to cut off leading UN armoured columns and then finishing off the tanks after their supplies were cut off.
4. UPDATE : For those of you who asked if Soviet Union’s aid in the form of T-34 tanks helps. the fact is most of the T-34 tanks supplied to North Korea by the Soviet Union were destroyed after the UN Incheon landing by superior US armour such as M4A3 Sherman medium tanks. M26 heavy tanks, along with the British Centurion, Churchill, and Cromwell tanks.Following the initial assault by the North Korean Army, the Korean War saw limited to zero use of the tank by the Chinese people’s volunteers and featured no large-scale tank battles.
5. UPDATE : As for helicopters, only the United States operates helicopters during the Korean War mainly for rescuing downed US pilots behind enemy lines. However as the air war progresses and more and more US fighter jets were shot down and US pilots downed, the helicopters became a burden as it is a homing beacon for the CPV to locate the downed US pilots and capture them. About a hundred-odd US pilots were captured by the CPV during the Korean War and they were later set free in exchange for the release of prominent Chinese scientists such as T.S. Tsien / Qian Xuesen who were incarcerated in the US.

UPDATE 250516: For those of you who doubted a Chinese victory, we can view this objectively by asking if both sides achieved their intended target/objectives. For the United States, the objective is to unify Korea under the friendly regime of Rhee Syngman but they failed because the CPV pushed them back to the 38th parallel. For China, the objective was to create a buffer by pushing back UN forces to the 38th parallel and it was achieved. The United States failed in its objective while China achieved its objective, and thus we can objectively say that it was a Chinese victory and a US defeat.

Below is an excellent rendition of how a US armoured brigade was destroyed by the Chinese people’s volunteers. For those of you who are interested to watch the full movie in English, please see video above. 

UPDATE: To refute the arbituarily inflated claims by some on the Korean War toll, here is a chart which gives a fair estimate on both sides:

Korean War Casualty Stats

[1] Korean War – Wikipedia

Below are some of the primitive and outdated weapons used by the Chinese to push back the US army.

Footnotes

[1] Korean War