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I post a thread about China's stealth fighter from the congressional testimony of an U.S. intelligence expert on China's military technology. Instead of comments that are relevant to the issue of China's stealth fighter, I have to read the usual drivel of Russia is so much better, blah, blah, blah.
Get it through your head Armand2REP, no one cares about Russia except for its nuclear weapons. The Russian military industrial complex is in shambles (e.g. see 15-year multibillion dollar endless Bulava SLBM program). The United States is focused on China's conventional military technological developments, not Russia's.
The United States military believes that "China is the only near-peer."
""For the first time ever, we're really taking into account the location" of would-be adversaries, said retired Vice Adm. Timothy LaFleur of San Diego, former commander of Naval Surface Forces and now an executive with the defense consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton. 'Clearly, China is the only near-peer threat that's out there.'" See China's military rebirth prompts U.S. response - Military - SignOnSanDiego.com
Nukes in the Taiwan Crisis FAS Strategic Security Blog
"The following year, in October 1997, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive (PDD)-60, which lowered the targeting requirement against Russia but reportedly at the same time broadened the spectrum of Chinese facilities that could be attacked with nuclear weapons to include the country's growing military-industrial complex and improved conventional forces. Despite the implications, one official told Washington Post, there was "no debate with respect to the targeting of China."
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It was around this time that the Bush administration's Nuclear Posture Review in late 2001 identified a military confrontation over the status of Taiwan as an "immediate contingency" influencing the sizing [of] U.S. nuclear forces. China, due to its still evolving strategic objectives and ongoing modernization of nuclear and non nuclear forces, was described as a country that "could be involved in an immediate or potential contingency."
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CHISOP or not, however, the March 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review underscored the central status of China in U.S. planning: "Of the major and emerging powers, China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States" as it "continues to invest heavily in its military, particularly in its strategic arsenal and capabilities designed to improve its ability to project power beyond its borders."
List of countries by military expenditures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States has the world's largest military budget at $607 billion dollars.
China has the world's second largest military budget at $84.9 billion dollars.
The United States is worried about China because China's military budget keeps growing by double-digits year after year.
U.S. Says China's Defense Spending Is Rising Fast - washingtonpost.com
2009: China's Military Budget Continues Double-Digit Growth
Get it through your head Armand2REP, no one cares about Russia except for its nuclear weapons. The Russian military industrial complex is in shambles (e.g. see 15-year multibillion dollar endless Bulava SLBM program). The United States is focused on China's conventional military technological developments, not Russia's.
The United States military believes that "China is the only near-peer."
""For the first time ever, we're really taking into account the location" of would-be adversaries, said retired Vice Adm. Timothy LaFleur of San Diego, former commander of Naval Surface Forces and now an executive with the defense consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton. 'Clearly, China is the only near-peer threat that's out there.'" See China's military rebirth prompts U.S. response - Military - SignOnSanDiego.com
Nukes in the Taiwan Crisis FAS Strategic Security Blog
"The following year, in October 1997, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive (PDD)-60, which lowered the targeting requirement against Russia but reportedly at the same time broadened the spectrum of Chinese facilities that could be attacked with nuclear weapons to include the country's growing military-industrial complex and improved conventional forces. Despite the implications, one official told Washington Post, there was "no debate with respect to the targeting of China."
...
It was around this time that the Bush administration's Nuclear Posture Review in late 2001 identified a military confrontation over the status of Taiwan as an "immediate contingency" influencing the sizing [of] U.S. nuclear forces. China, due to its still evolving strategic objectives and ongoing modernization of nuclear and non nuclear forces, was described as a country that "could be involved in an immediate or potential contingency."
...
CHISOP or not, however, the March 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review underscored the central status of China in U.S. planning: "Of the major and emerging powers, China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States" as it "continues to invest heavily in its military, particularly in its strategic arsenal and capabilities designed to improve its ability to project power beyond its borders."
List of countries by military expenditures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States has the world's largest military budget at $607 billion dollars.
China has the world's second largest military budget at $84.9 billion dollars.
The United States is worried about China because China's military budget keeps growing by double-digits year after year.
U.S. Says China's Defense Spending Is Rising Fast - washingtonpost.com
2009: China's Military Budget Continues Double-Digit Growth
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