I’m not much worried. All this trotting out of new military tech seems weird to me. Why would you want your enemies to know what you have in your arsenal?
Or is this “foreign intervention” to make the stock market go down?
the iranians have a cardboard aircraft carrier and the plywood stealth drone. this looks about as formidable.
Our Subs could make short work of 80% of the Chinese Navy before they knew what hit them.
” Why would you want your enemies to know what you have in your arsenal?”
I think under “normal” circumstances, China would keep any military advances secret for the surprise effect they’d have in an actual war. However, if the last group of presidents since, say, Nixon, could be considered “normal” then Trump would be very abnormal. He is making China’s government feel threatened. The Chinese probably want to accomplish at least two tasks with their revelations. One is to reassure the Chinese people that their government is ready, willing and able to take on this new Trumpian/American menace. The other is to counter the “threat” that Trump, in their eyes, is making about China’s supposed local hegemony.
As an aside, I’d be willing to bet the technology they are revealing is not the technology they’d rely on if there was a sudden war with America. You can rest assured that if they have any hidden technological aces up their sleeves, they won’t tip us off before they use them. A former Chinese general recently published an opinion piece in a state propaganda organ. He said Chinese policy against the United States would be an opening decapitating (Pearl Harbor) attack. In a way that’s probably semi-official bluster. In another way, that is undoubtedly Chinese strategy. I am so glad we have Trump in office instead of a Lead-From-Behind metrosexual.
You only end up in a war if you lose deterrence. Under Obama we are lucky we didn’t end up in a war.