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China Just Announced Its Plan to Beat the U.S. Military by 2049
National Security Journal ^ | 8/12/2025 | Reuben Johnson

Posted on 08/12/2025 5:36:41 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has officially declared its ambition to match and then surpass the U.S. military by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. According to an article in the Communist Party’s official newspaper, achieving a “world-class military” requires the PLA to measure itself against the “world’s strongest military”—an apparent reference to the United States.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: china; defense; military; taiwan; wishfulthinking
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Can we keep up with China's advances?
1 posted on 08/12/2025 5:36:41 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

China’s moved beyond advances and has been ravaging our country at least since the Bushes and Clintons—though the setup goes back to the CIA and Mao, furthered by Kissinger and Nixon.


2 posted on 08/12/2025 5:39:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: whyilovetexas111

Zager and Evans…”In The Year 2049”?


3 posted on 08/12/2025 5:41:49 AM PDT by albie
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To: whyilovetexas111

Let me guess ... They’re going to allow millions of Indians to immigrate to China to harvest their tech skills.


4 posted on 08/12/2025 5:44:06 AM PDT by struggle
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Can we keep up with China's advances?

Depends on whether or not we elect another America hating liberal, who will give away our technology, like Bill Clinton did.

5 posted on 08/12/2025 5:45:13 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: airborne
"Depends on whether or not when we elect another America hating liberal, who will give away our technology, like Bill Clinton did.

Do not overestimate the intelligence of the American public.
6 posted on 08/12/2025 5:48:19 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: airborne

Also can china keep up with us


7 posted on 08/12/2025 5:49:57 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: albie
I want to see their carrier fleet successfully launch and recover some aircraft......./crickets

See the super secret electric rail gun launchers are covered up

The Chinese have no knowledge of how to couple a nuclear power plant electric power to make the cyclic switch to a rail gun style aircraft launcher

8 posted on 08/12/2025 5:51:42 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Ah, I was gonna have some coffee but this steaming cup of bullcrap is way better!


9 posted on 08/12/2025 5:51:56 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: whyilovetexas111

China is putting far too much effort to defeat us. A much less expensive effort is for them to keep getting DemocRATz elected. After all, the RATz are already far ahead of any other enemies (and the RATz ARE enemies) in destroying our country.


10 posted on 08/12/2025 5:53:30 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: spokeshave
PS...a Rail Gun is good for launching a projectile at high speed....

But something as big as a aircraft with a pilot is another story.

Maybe they will fling a drone into air

They would be better off installing a Trebuchet....../snicker

11 posted on 08/12/2025 5:56:09 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: 9YearLurker

Yes. Three ways to surpass an obstacle:

1. Raise the bridge (PRC)
2. Lower the water (USA)
3. Combination of both


12 posted on 08/12/2025 5:58:24 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Made in CHYNA


13 posted on 08/12/2025 6:04:04 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: whyilovetexas111

The date suggests that China is not going to move toward war with the US anytime soon.


14 posted on 08/12/2025 6:08:29 AM PDT by Rockingham
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Ban Chinese students from American universities, they are mostly spies anyways


15 posted on 08/12/2025 6:14:05 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: HombreSecreto

As Orban explained to Trump, Russia defeats you via war and China via trade.


16 posted on 08/12/2025 6:14:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: whyilovetexas111

By 2049 the military will be vastly different than it is today.


17 posted on 08/12/2025 6:14:33 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: whyilovetexas111

Bwa hahaha

They can’t even keep their ships from running into each other

🤣

Chinese warship crashes into own coastguard vessel while chasing ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/12/chinese-ships-crash-warship-coast-guard-south-china-sea


18 posted on 08/12/2025 6:28:41 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: whyilovetexas111
"China Just Announced Its Plan to Beat the U.S. Military by 2049.

That shouldn't be too hard.. I don't believe the US, in its present form, would be here in 2049. We'll be just a small remanent of our former selves.

19 posted on 08/12/2025 6:34:49 AM PDT by unread (Next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind HIM of his future...)
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“Can we keep up with China’s advances?”

Ha, ha... China’s economy is on the verge of collapse. Skyrocketing inflation, unemployment, and whole cities being wiped off the face of the earth due to flooding. Their rioting youth no longer want to work (a thousand times worse than the US). Their words about beating the US Military are wind.

This is happening throughout their nation.

https://youtu.be/AR1DgkitKx0?si=bg_pz71A83XUeAjB


20 posted on 08/12/2025 6:35:43 AM PDT by BushCountry ( The Biggest Super Bowl in history going on in DC right now, It’s the Patriots vs The Stealers!)
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