Defense Secretary James N. Mattis meets with China's Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe at the People's Liberation Army's Bayi Building in Beijing, June 28, 2018. DoD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith
Newsweek: China on Its Way to Becoming Powerful Enough 'to Beat Any Military in the World,' U.S. Says
A new Pentagon report has detailed the rise of China's armed forces, criticizing what the U.S. military has viewed as an increasingly serious challenge to its own global interests.
The Defense Department published a news release on Wednesday to accompany the "Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China" report it published earlier this week and presented to Congress. The document painted China's initiatives to expand its economic clout and the capabilities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) as malign measures intended to boost Beijing's world influence at the expense of other countries, including the U.S., in the region the Pentagon calls the Indo-Pacific.
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WNU Editor: The Pentagon's announcement on the rise of China's military can be read here .... DoD Report Details China’s Growing Military, Economic Power (US Department of Defense). The full report on the rise of China's military can be read from here .... Military and Security Developments Involving The People's Republic of China (US Department of Defense).
That's the wrong sttitude.
ReplyDeleteHow do you trust your "allies" in Asia? At the end of the day, China can Steamroll anybody on the ground in Asia, whenever they choose;today.. Tomorrow only brings greater advancements and a better equipped and trained milirary. We must stop the hacking/sale of our National Secrets if we stand a chance 50,60,70 years from now. This theft prevention must become a priority immediately!
ReplyDeleteWell, nothing new under the sun. It was the same song with USSR during the cold war. The Pentagon just need more $ and it will have it.
ReplyDeleteSee that's what I thought to. China has a army, but no way to move the masses. According to a marine at work. They are ...... And lack combat experience.
ReplyDeleteCouple points; 1) The US has oceans on two side and will maintain a heavy sea going force making it difficult to come here. 2) Considering India, they check the heavy force of China's land armies. 3) Considering all other pacific nations, they are hemmed in.
ReplyDeleteHaving said this, this is why I believe in the Tarrifs as it starts putting pressure on them. We beat the USSR with our economic power, not military.
Chinese blogger documents the construction of 31 new mass re-education camps in Xinjiang since the ‘People’s War on Terror’ began in 2016.
ReplyDeleteChina's Achilles heal is food and oil. If the US ever considered it necessary to invade China, they would have to initially destroy their Navy and set up a blockade around the main land and starve them into submission...
ReplyDeleteChina understands this though and it is why they are investing so much to obtain land routs to eastern Asia(silk road)...
As it stands China is already at the precipice at being able to feed its enormous population...