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China’s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America’s
Frank Kendall – the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology, and logistics – has repeatedly warned that America’s military advantage over China is evaporating.
The Weekly Standard reports:
While the U.S. military’s budget is being cut, China’s budget has been growing at about 12 percent annually, Kendall said, and may soon be as large as the U.S.’s. China is of particular concern according to the under secretary because “no one’s studied us more — including immediately after the first Gulf War — than the Chinese. And they have been building systems since then designed to counteract some of the things that we have.”
Last month, the Washington Free Beacon reported on a draft of the annual report of the congressional, bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission which found:
China’s rapid military modernization is altering the military balance of power in the Asia Pacific in ways that could engender destabilizing security competition between other major nearby countries, such as Japan and India, and exacerbate regional hotspots such as Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.
And Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel noted in August:
China and Russia have been trying to close the technology gap by pursuing and funding long-term, comprehensive military modernization programs.
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They are also developing anti-ship, anti-air, counter-space, cyber, electronic warfare and special operations capabilities that appear designed to counter traditional U.S. military advantages.
(The defense contractors are of course saying that we need to increase military spending. But America's military would be much further ahead if we hadn't squandered trillions of dollars on staggering idiocy, pursued a foreign policy which has weakened our national security, and allowed rampant and unchecked fraud to plunge our economy into disarming levels of debt.)
Offensive … Or Defensive?
I was born and raised in the U.S., and lived here all my life. So America’s national security is my number one concern.
And as an American, I simply don’t want any other country to match U.S. military superiority. I want “my team” to be top dog.
But blaming China for being bellicose and militaristic may be a little one-sided. From another perspective, China is just acting defensively.
For example, historians say that declining empires tend to attack their rising rivals … so the risk of world war is rising because the U.S. feels threatened by the rising empire of China.
Indeed, the U.S. government considers economic rivalry to be a basis for war. And (according to one measure) China’s economy is already bigger than America’s.
The U.S. is in fact systematically using its military to contain China’s growing economic influence.
We warned in 2012 that the U.S. had re-started the Cold War with Russia. Indeed, the U.S. has been encircling Russia for decades, and may be attempting to carry out regime change in that country. China may not sit idly by while Russia – its close ally and economic partner – is challenged.
China has also warned against an attack on Iran. This is relevant because the U.S. made the decision to threaten to bomb Iran before 9/11, has been actively planning regime change in Iran for 20 years, and actually carried out regime change 60 years ago.
Indeed, the U.S. may be attempting to carry out regime change in China itself.
In addition, we’re in the middle of a currency war, and China is eroding the dollar’s status as world reserve currency. Currency wars often lead to shooting wars.
And numerous top financial experts warn that the U.S. may launch World War 3 to distract the public from our failing economy.
So while China’s military build-up is troubling, it’s not entirely surprising.
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You sound defeated already.
I for one would gladly support the U.S remaining "top-dog" and here's why - at end of WWII the Anglo Saxon alliance was the first entity in the history of the world that could of conquered the entire world using it's newly developed nuclear technology - and it didn't, let that sink in for a moment. Yes there have been continuous small wars but we could have forced the entire world into utter submission under the banner of a global U.S empire and we didn't. The west has shown incredible responsibility with nuclear weapons since WWII. If America becomes weak let us hope any new superpowers will be just as responsible and restrained.
One thing is for sure if there is any attempt to conquer the West you can rest assured there will be total mutual destruction for those who fuck with us.
you lost me at "top gun" or was it top dog. Hell, I lost where you lost me.
Actually it will collapse of Fraud, Theft Coersion and Graft, Truth Be Known :) Marty
Incredible responsibility my ass.
The US used the nukes almost as soon as it finished them against a tattered nation who couldn't even hope to reach half way to the American mainland again.
And the thing about the "Anglo Saxon" alliance was that it was just that: an alliance. Multiple nations who had conflicting interests. You forget, Russia and China were still allies of America and Europe at the time. Shortly after things started heating up between the west and the Commies, USSR got them too. Enter MAD. Even in spite of that, there were some very close calls.
And of course this is all ignoring the considerable role that the Anglo Saxon governments and bankers have played in building up these enemies. Hell, they even helped enemy nations gain their technologies.
I said "The west has shown incredible responsibility with nuclear weapons since WWII."
But let's speak about the two nukes that were dropped for a minute you have to understand the mindset of imperial Japan in 1945 was utterly fanatical for starters surrender was against the law and it was so nationalist they viewed all others as sub-human and commited atrocities that would make ISIS look like choir boys.
They would not of surrendered without being nuked and much more lives than what were lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have occured with that being said I believe the second bomb on Nagasaki was uncalled for as the Japanese would have surrendered after Hiroshima was bombed. So IMO first bomb was justified second bomb was not.
The world could be quite different if Hitler, Stalin or the Emperor had obtained this technology before the Allies.
So yes I 100% stand by what I said.
Who needs to conquer the West?
It will collapse because of its own doings.
Really, I'm willing to bet in a hundred years time that the West muddles through like it has for the last 100 years. Now I have no doubt that by then a loaf of bread will probably cost $500 but your average earnings will be $100k weekly.
It's the same as it ever was.
Nothing new about extreme debt or financial crisises.
The next war will be cyber and economic. They can dump their treasuries at any time and we are quickly getting to the end of our leash in our ability to protect the petrol dollar.
No, they can't just 'dump' them. The Treasury can freeze their accounts.
They could, however, slowly sell them off... if yields rise, the Fed - oops, sorry, 'Belgium' - would just buy them.
It won't work forever, obviously, but as the appalling Keynes observed, in the long term we are all dead.
how did Keynes know that, has he been here on Zero?
freezing treasuries=end of dollar
The US is the one country that must keep its currency good. It is the basis of other currencies. If the US does a bail-in or freeze treasuries or begin too obvious inflation it could be over for the dollar quickly.
All those "Mays" and "Mights" are pretty scary.
I think i'll see what happens before I raise my White Flag.
"China’s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America’s"
After the total collapse of the $? Sure.
What makes you think the U.S. still has military "superiority"? Aircraft carriers can be destroyed easily now days, unspeakable weapons can be carried on supersonic stealth delivery platforms, the U.S. is so stretched out that they couldn't mount an offensive of any kind for any reason (they aren't even "winning" against ISIS). WTF? Superiority? Really?
The U.S. is only number one in the mind of a U.S. citizen - that's about it.