Military vehicles carrying DF-21D ballistic missiles roll through Tiananmen Square in 2015. Damir Sagolj / Reuters file
NBC: These Chinese military innovations threaten U.S. superiority, experts say
BEIJING — The Chinese New Year began with the traditional lighting of firecrackers on Friday, but the country's military has been working on incendiaries on an entirely different scale.
Over the past year, the nation that invented gunpowder has been rolling out an array of high-tech weapons that some experts say could threaten the global superiority of the United States.
"The U.S. no longer possesses clear military-technical dominance, and China is rapidly emerging as a would-be superpower in science and technology," said Elsa B. Kania, an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army "might even cut ahead of the U.S. in new frontiers of military power," she added.
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WNU Editor: A good summary on what China is focused on.
4 comments:
That's cute and all, but until we can verify any state propaganda, it's merely theoretical. And, China yet has to prove its fighting capabilities on the modern warfare battleground. Question is: Which country will they slap around as a test? Can't be too small or the World will cry out, can't be too big, or China might embarrass itself and crumble at the ego of its military for decades; my money is on Taiwan
Philippines
You mean a naval confrontation? I don't think Philippines qualifies. Plus they've bent over backwards to appease China. It wouldn't make sense. Philippines is perhaps the only solid partner they have in SE Asia lol it'd be quite stupid indeed
My money is on India.
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