Posted on 10/02/2019 1:41:48 PM PDT by Mariner
The rest of the world was watching the pomp, circumstance and speeches celebrating China’s 70th anniversary Tuesday, but military analysts were glued to another spectacle in the heart of Beijing: the arsenal of cutting-edge weaponry capable of challenging U.S. military might for decades to come.
The lavish event marking seven decades of Communist Party rule gave Beijing a golden opportunity to showcase new hypersonic missiles, top-of-the-line drones, tanks, stealth bombers, unmanned underwater vehicles, helicopters that rival U.S. Black Hawks, and a host of other military technology that highlights the nation’s ever-rising defense budget and its long-term plan to cut into American superiority in Asia and beyond.
Analysts called the display a clear warning to the West and an indication that China’s military progress — already at the point where Beijing is likely capable of going toe-to-toe with the U.S. in the Pacific — is accelerating at a rapid pace. Pentagon officials say their strategy to counter China acknowledges the new paradigm and the uncomfortable truth that unquestioned U.S. power may be a thing of the past.
“We’re no longer in a period of overwhelming American dominance but rather one in which our armed forces are adapting to fight against near-peer competitors who are fielding increasingly sophisticated capabilities,” Randall G. Schriver, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, told an audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington just hours after the parade.
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But our stuff actually works, and is deployed in numbers.
If the Chinese are so advanced, why don’t they carve out some elbow room right next door, in Siberia?
“If the Chinese are so advanced, why don’t they carve out some elbow room right next door, in Siberia?”
Because Russia has 6,850 nuclear weapons. And China has 300-400.
A lot of the technology stolen from the US, spies all over US
We need to educate more of them at our universities! That will help them improve their technology.
We have a lot, too.
Just saying... there’s a trend here, and I think it runs in China’s favor vis-a-vis Russia, and possibly vis-a-vis the US.
Yep. Clinton gave them our secrets.
I think you mean SOLD!
“..their strategy to counter China acknowledges the new paradigm and the uncomfortable truth that unquestioned U.S. power may be a thing of the past.”
The military always cries alarm to get more funding. Nothing new here.
That said the VERY BEST the Chinese can ever hope for is a standoff with them and us looking at MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).”
As of now there are no 10 Nations who can separately or combined engage in conflict with the USA without being totally obliterated within days of a strike on us.
I’m guessing if we stood perfectly still and ended all R&D in the area of arms development it would take the Chinese close to 20 years to catch up. Of course we are not standing still and further we have considerably tightened the security and lessened the ability of China to steal our intellectual property as they have been doing for years.
I’m not worried about this at all.
“Because Russia has 6,850 nuclear weapons.”
Sure, maybe but they don’t know where 3/4 of them are and the other 1/4 don’t work.
Thanks Free Traitors™ for supplying technical know how and money to the ChiComs and in the process de industrializing the USA. Again thanks. /sarc
China is a paper tiger. Yes, America has its same paper tiger issues but the race is which nation collapses first.
Historically, China has always had a hard time projecting power beyond its borders — if the current dynasty was interested in projecting power at all.
Case in point — the mighty Chinese junk fleets that roamed Asian waters in the 14th century. But these exploratory and trading efforts ended abruptly when a new emperor said “no more.”
In the late 19th century, the decrepit empire maintained a fairly large fleet of Western-designed warships. But the Japanese beat them soundly in 1894.
I’ve always fancied what might happen if China and Japan squared off again today.
Correction to my earlier post — the Chinese fleets sailed far and wide during the early 1400s, not the 14th century.
MAD is BS.
I’m not worried about this at all.
Once a Free Traitor™ always a Free Traitor™.
That is exactly correct. Also, pretty much everything they’ve got, has come by way stealing whatever they could from the US and reverse engineering the rest. And remember, the really good stuff, they didn’t get their hands on that stuff. For instance, we’re just a couple of years away from our entire military being transformed. The defensive systems used to protect our ships and tanks and aircraft use bullets and missiles or jamming to protect themselves. In just a couple of years those systems are going to begin to be replaced by directed energy weapons, Lasers. There are also several other weapon systems coming online, and new naval platforms like the FFG(x), Large Surface Combatant i.e. the replacement for our overworked and worn out Guided Missile Cruisers, the CG’s Ticonderoga Class. And of course the Virginia Class SSN attack subs whom are now being upgraded and manufactured with the Virginia Payload Module.
There are so many new and upgraded systems and vehicles in President Trump’s defense budgets that I would estimate by 2030 when all of this new stuff is getting out there in numbers, President Trump will have succeeded in restoring our 25 to 30 year military technological advantage that we had on the day George Bush I took office, he and the succeeding Presidents either cut the military or wore it out and thus allowed that advantage to dwindle down to 5 to 10 years. President Trump is restoring that advantage as quickly as possible.
Why is M.A.D. bs? (btw I am speaking of China when I use the term and not muzzie crazies.
What is a “free traitor”?
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