Warships and fighter jets of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy take part in a military display in the South China Sea on April 12, 2018.PHOTO: REUTERS
Straits Times/Washington Post: US military faces risks from China strategy to blunt technological advantages in event of conflict: Report
WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - The US military may be close to falling victim to a "deliberate, patient and robustly resourced" Chinese strategy to blunt the technological advantages of the American armed forces, a new report co-written by the Pentagon's former No. 2 official has warned.
The study - written by former deputy defence secretary Robert Work and his former special assistant, Mr Greg Grant - details what the authors describe as a five-pronged Chinese strategy to end and ultimately outstrip the American military's technological superiority.
The goal in the short term is to make it too costly for Washington to intervene in the Western Pacific, and to eventually become the world's premier military force, according to the study.
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