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China Is Rapidly Building Up Weapons And Warfare Operations
The Federalist ^ | December 27, 2024 | Chuck DeVore

Posted on 12/27/2024 6:42:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is undertaking an unprecedented military buildup aimed at challenging America and its allies, particularly in the Indo-Pacific. And, like Nazi Germany’s buildup in the 1930s, the militarization program ordered by the Chinese Communist Party isn’t simply a great power buildup — it’s a weapon in service of a deadly ideology.

The 2024 Department of Defense China Military Power Report and recent analysis by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times reveal this buildup as part of a broader strategy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to position itself as a global superpower. Meanwhile, the U.S., having spent $5.4 trillion on the global war on terror and attendant, futile nation-building, has left itself strategically vulnerable by diverting critical resources while underestimating the threat from China.

Missile Expansion and Strategic Modernization

China has rapidly expanded the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) arsenal, adding, that we know of, some:

Cognitive Warfare and Psychological Operations

Beyond its conventional forces, China’s adoption of “cognitive warfare” poses a significant threat. This doctrine focuses on manipulating information to undermine adversaries’ decision-making processes. Cognitive warfare features tactics right out of a sci-fi film, all enabled by powerful AI tools. For instance, deepfakes to mislead military and political leaders during crises and psychological warfare to demoralize U.S. troops and polarize society — the latter...

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I wonder what Xi has in mind? 🤡
1 posted on 12/27/2024 6:42:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 12/27/2024 6:47:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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“China Is Rapidly Building Up Weapons And Warfare Operations”

The $300B plus that the Neocons WASTED on their demented Ukraine Project could have developed some pretty neat weapons, or expanded our tiny military (by US historical standards), but, nope, it was sent DOWN THE DRAIN.


3 posted on 12/27/2024 6:50:28 PM PST by BobL
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this is all just gobbledygook to me. We’ve got to find the chink in their armor.


4 posted on 12/27/2024 6:51:02 PM PST by Strict9
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China can’t build an escalator that doesn’t eat people alive.


5 posted on 12/27/2024 6:56:28 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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They are deploying escalators now?

Those devious yellow devils.


6 posted on 12/27/2024 7:06:56 PM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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ALWAYS take the stairs....never trust an escalator.


7 posted on 12/27/2024 7:11:10 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Nothing here we haven’t already known but it’s good to say it again. With Trump’s return maybe government will listen.


8 posted on 12/27/2024 7:13:00 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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Words to live by :-)


9 posted on 12/27/2024 7:13:38 PM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What possible country could he see as a threat? Could it be us? It’s a mystery.


10 posted on 12/27/2024 7:17:02 PM PST by GOPJ (Democratic Party lost.. because they've become the party of "uncommon nonsense".- CNNScott Jennings)
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Any nation that stands in their way or refuses them, they have a lot of countries, lands, and islands they want to own.


11 posted on 12/27/2024 7:21:45 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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I predict that by summer we will see something big happening involving both Xi Jinping and Putin.


12 posted on 12/27/2024 7:39:35 PM PST by chud
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Why would anyone think that any non-woke government would do otherwise? China does what is in China’s interest. Sometimes those interests may be misplaced, but never the less China’s self interest

They should be expected to do this. It isn’t surprising. It is only alarming because the Wokerati believe that other nations are peaceful, g old, and non racist.


13 posted on 12/27/2024 7:45:29 PM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts)
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I wonder what Xi has in mind?

,,, when his economy is taking such a step down as it is now, the big way to unite the people would be by way of military focus. One thing he won't tell his people, as a result of the one child poilcy, is that each of his soldiers who get killed will mean an end to a family. He's screwed up the economy, now he's continuing to thin out his population. Communism was the twentieth century's biggest killer. Why stop now?

14 posted on 12/27/2024 7:58:24 PM PST by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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It’s probably nothing good.


15 posted on 12/27/2024 8:08:11 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Well all ops must wrap up eventually. If I had to guess I would say China sees there’s about to be a round up of it’s spies so their useful lifespan, and that stage, is over.
Next would come the actual aggression once nothing more useful can be gleaned by peaceful means.


16 posted on 12/27/2024 9:13:29 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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“Communism was the twentieth century’s biggest killer.”

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Did communism kill more than 1.77 billion people in the last 44 years? No. That’s more people killed than in all the world’s wars and health epidemics through all mankind’s thousands of years of recorded history combined.


17 posted on 12/28/2024 2:38:28 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do tell.


18 posted on 12/28/2024 3:47:02 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/


19 posted on 12/28/2024 7:36:04 AM PST by Theophilus 7
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And thanks to the free traitors, they’re doing it with our consumer dollars.


20 posted on 12/28/2024 1:00:26 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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