China has been working silently to prove themselves how strong it could be as a military force.
The Pentagon has been surprised and alarmed by the pace of China’s technological modernization in several spheres, including its nuclear program, cyber technology, missile capabilities, and the space program.
Recently, Gen. John Hyten a No. 2-ranking U.S. military officer who previously commanded U.S. nuclear forces and oversaw Air Force space operations said in a statement, “The pace at which China is moving is stunning.”
Hearing this from his is certainly makes things worse for us Americans as China is aiming its drive to end American predominance in the Asia-Pacific.
Even the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley said that the test was very close to being a Sputnik moment which simply brings us to memory how the 1957 launching by the Soviet Union of the world’s first space satellite, which caught the world by surprise and fed fears the United States had fallen behind technologically. What followed was a nuclear arm and space race that ultimately bankrupted the Soviet Union.
Milley has said in a TV interview with Bloomberg, “That’s just one weapon system, The Chinese military capabilities are much greater than that. They’re expanding rapidly in space, in cyber, and then in the traditional domains of land, sea, and air.”
China appears to be more than 10 times the number in operation today while the United States by comparison has 400 active ICBM silos and 50 in reserve according to a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen.
Fiona Cunningham has said, ” I don’t think China’s nuclear modernization is giving it a capability to pre-emptively strike the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and that was a really important generator of competition during the Cold War,” Cunningham said in an online forum sponsored by Georgetown University. “But what it does do is to limit the effectiveness of U.S. attempts to pre-emptively strike the Chinese arsenal,” saying it with a full authority being an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in Chinese military strategy, says a key driver of Beijing’s nuclear push is its concerns about U.S. intentions.
Remarkably, The United States has long pledged to help Taiwan defend itself, but it has deliberately left unclear how far it would go in response to a Chinese attack. President Joe Biden appeared to abandon that ambiguity when he said on Oct. 21 that America would come to Taiwan’s defense if it were attacked by China.
Biden has been vocal when it comes to defending Taiwan, previously he said, “We have a commitment to do that,” while keeping the U.S. policy which does not support Taiwanese independence but is committed to providing defensive arms.
Civilians are all in danger when it comes to military conflicts. God help us all.
Source: NewsMax
