Posted on 01/29/2021 1:51:33 PM PST by Retain Mike
In an era of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for more than 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military force within China’s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in more-distant waters, including the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters around Europe.
China’s navy is viewed as posing a major challenge to the U.S. Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain wartime control of blue-water ocean areas in the Western Pacific—the first such challenge the U.S. Navy has faced since the end of the Cold War—and forms a key element of a Chinese challenge to the long-standing status of the United States as the leading military power in the Western Pacific. Some U.S. observers are expressing concern or alarm regarding the pace of China’s naval shipbuilding effort, particularly for building larger surface ships, and resulting trend lines regarding the relative sizes China’s navy and the U.S. Navy.
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I remember speaking with a US Navy Admiral in the early 1990s who had been given a diplomatic tour of some Chinese cruisers. He laughed because the bridge, officers quarters and other parts of the ship had plywood walls, stuffed chairs, etc…
Said it would be nightmare for fire-suppression.
I imagine the Chinese have upped their game a bit since then.
Combine the expansion of the Chicom’s PLA naval fleet with the certain-to-come curtailment of the care and feeding of the US Navy, the change in supremacy of the seas could come quickly and perhaps irrevocably.
All part of the Great Reset plan....
Written by foreign affairs X-spurt H. BuyDUNG?
I don’t think there’s any question about that. Russia is in a demographic death spiral, and has never been more than a Third World country with a First World military. Their conventional forces seriously declined after the fall of the Soviet Union, and even though they are now in a modernization push, I can’t see how they can sustain it long-term. Texas’s economy is larger than Russia’s, and California’s is more than twice as big. The U.S.’s total economy is more than 14 times the size of Russia’s. If they didn’t have nuclear weapons, Russia would be a non-factor in geopolitics.
“China may be the main enemy instead of Russia.”
I think the Democrats had only two choices when they picked fake enemy to associate with Trump. It had to be either Russia or China. The Democrats are deeply in bed with China so they chose Russia. Meanwhile it really is China interfering with US elections, but they have clearly bought off all the people they need. So, Russia was blamed for all the crazy things that, really, China was doing.
So, what are the real world implications for Russian/US relations? The Biden administration has offered to reinstate the nuclear arms treaty with Russia. (Trump cancelled it because the Russians were cheating.) But Russia has to agree to, among other things, reimburse the US for the cost of the Mueller “investigation.” By doing so, they validate the Democrat’s false accusations.
On the good side, it means the treaty will not be signed. On the bad side, the Biden administration has already cancelled the weapons improvements that Trump wanted.
IS, not may be...
It will be easy to counter China’s military buildups. All we need is a bunch of transgenders in our forces and we will kick their butts no problem! Right Jao?
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