Posted on 12/22/2021 2:25:14 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
China is building up its armed forces at a rapid pace.
Its advances in missile technology, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence have triggered serious concern among many Western observers, who believe a profound shift in the global balance of military power is under way.
President Xi Jinping has ordered China's armed forces to modernise by 2035. They should, he says, become a "world-class" military power, capable of "fighting and winning wars" by 2049.
It is a huge undertaking, but the country is on target.
Spending big China has been criticised by some international experts for a "lack of transparency" over how much it spends on defence, and an "inconsistent reporting of figures".
Beijing does publish official spending data, but Western estimates of China's financial support for its armed forces are often significantly higher.
It is widely believed that China currently spends more on its armed forces than any country except the US.
The growth of China's military budget has outpaced its overall economic growth for at least a decade, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Boosting the nuclear stockpile In November, the US Department of Defense predicted that China was set to quadruple its nuclear stockpile by the end of the current decade. China, it said, "likely intends to have at least 1,000 warheads by 2030".
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A recent spy case shows how China has been able to pull off its whirlwind military modernization
Business Insider ^ | 13 December 2021 | Stavros Atlamazoglou
Posted on 12/14/2021, 1:18:29 AM by blueplum
....According to the FBI and Department of Justice, Xu had since 2013 used multiple aliases to target US and third-country aviation companies and experts in that field. He would invite them to China on academic pretexts and then slowly lure them to espionage.
Xu’s arrest and conviction are unique and shed light on a shadowy conflict in which Beijing is trying to wrestle global supremacy from the US using any means possible. Military secrets aren’t the only target. The US’s top counterintelligence agency estimates that Beijing steals $200 billion to $600 billion worth of economic secrets from the US every year....
...China seeks the most advanced tech available, the MSS uses three complementary approaches to steal or otherwise obtain military and industrial secrets.
First, with traditional human intelligence operations...
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Under our current leadership, not only can China win the weapons race, the WILL win the weapons race.
While we are worrying about vaccinating soldiers, while we worry about rooting out extremism, while we are worrying about transgender rights, the Chinese are worrying about Hypersonic Missiles, Satellite killing missiles, nuclear weapons, etc...
XI AND THEN-VP JOE....(BFF, as long as the checks to the Biden Crime Family clear)
Why? Blame Free Traitors. They sold out the USA. Tariffs now and forever.
How long have we been outsourcing our technological parts from the likes of China? For that matter how long has our government t been in cahoots with China to kill our own citizens?
When will Republicans have a “come to Jesus moment” and admit because of naked of greed they sold out almost all of US industry to the 3rd world and COMMUNIST China? That is our core problem.
Republicans started this offshoring and massive legal immigration H-1B sh!t in the 1990’s. The Clintoon Criminal gang quickly picked up on it.
China has bought off most politicians and just about everyone on Wall Street, at some point you hope that changes, but I have my doubts...
Thanks free traitors. I hope that $.10 you saved on communist made paint brushes makes up for what you did to this country.
President Xi Jinping has ordered China’s armed forces to modernise by 2035. They should, he says, become a “world-class” military power, capable of “fighting and winning wars” by 2049. It is a huge undertaking, but the country is on target.
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dreamers! how do they expect to win anything against US forces which are making do with less money, maintenance, and weapons, are vetted to be ardent leftists singing woke tunes of critical race theory, racial discrimination against evil white people? The US troops are equipped with the latest high fashion pink high heels and march to a specially composed waltzing strain of The International.
Fearsome sight striking terror in the eyes of conservatives and wrong-thinkers everywhere. Poor Chinese haven’t a prayer!
China seeks the most advanced tech available
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Yes this is part of China’s Program 863 - Building a Post-nuclear Super-weapon ...
https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/China-s-Program-863-Building/2005/09/30/id/683809/
Pssst! China has already won and its not because of some stupid military hardware. It is because they are unified.
if trump gets elected in 2024, if the usa under trump sues mainland china for $80T in damages from the bug and collects, if trump declares a 50% tariff on all goods made in mainland china effective immediately, then the USA would reclaim its status as the manufacturing champion of the world. we would have more jobs, a better balance of trade, and a better base from which to rebuild our military which has been sadly weakened for decades by treachery, poor leadership, and neglect.
do other countries have affirmative action? if not, it can be a manufacturing QC issue and a competitiveness issue.
We’ll see how many only sons are willing to die for the Emperor XI!
The future is India not China.
China has an imbalanced population, with a two looming demographic crisis (an aging population and more than 11 men per 10 women for persons under 30).
China is moving away from capitalism, which will reduce its standard of living.
China must import oil through the Strait of Malacca. In any confrontation with the democratic countries of the world, its supply could be easily cut off.
As China catches up to the technology of the west, from whom will it be able to steal new technology?
“Spending big”
China spends 1/10th of what the US spends on the military so lets don’t pee our pants yet. 😆
We’ll see how many only sons are willing to die for the Emperor XI!
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We’ll see how many families are willing to let their sons to die for the Emperor XI!
Fixed
As of fiscal year 2020 the United States Defense spending was $778 billion and China was $252 billion. So that is approximately a 3 to 1 ratio, not 10 to 1 as you stated.
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