Pentagon: China Could Pull Ahead of US Military by 2049
China says US misinterpreting Chinese defense policy
Jason Ditz
The Pentagon has offered a new report on China warning that by mid-century China may catch or even surpass the US military in capabilities. They anticipate a “world-class” military by 2049.
This is one of those all-too-common Pentagon reports, which since the tensions began raising between the US and China have been coming nearly daily, playing up China as a growing threat that needs to be the focus of US military policy.
China doesn’t see things that way, faulting the US for misinterpreting China’s defense policy and promised a correction at a future date. China sees the US assumption based on Cold War thinking about the situation.
The US reports all envision China getting a much bigger military in the future, but it is unclear if they really intend to spend so much on military assets as to compete with the US on a global scale, or will just keep working on being able to contest their immediate vicinity.
This is one of those all-too-common Pentagon reports, which since the tensions began raising between the US and China have been coming nearly daily, playing up China as a growing threat that needs to be the focus of US military policy.
China doesn’t see things that way, faulting the US for misinterpreting China’s defense policy and promised a correction at a future date. China sees the US assumption based on Cold War thinking about the situation.
The US reports all envision China getting a much bigger military in the future, but it is unclear if they really intend to spend so much on military assets as to compete with the US on a global scale, or will just keep working on being able to contest their immediate vicinity.
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/02/pentagon-china-could-pull-ahead-of-us-military-by-2049/
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