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 as 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.
Wait to see what the U S of A will be much, much earlier. It will be drowned in debts. Bankrupt “Super Power”
China has already surpassed the USA—the empire will collapse in 5-10 years. by 2049 US will be several nations or a struggling 3rd world nation
When pentagon brass look around the world they see projections of themselves, hegemonic jerks with weird priorities including global domination. Let’s hope US officials haven’t made that true with constant provocations of China, and when China has the means of global oppression they will still choose not to invest in it and its toxic consequences.
Pentagon would wish it was by 2049, but knows it will happen at the end of 2020.
By 2049 the U.S.S empire has sunk.
The empire will collapsed a lot sooner than 2049…!
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Isn’t the Western Hemisphere (Monroe Doctrine) sufficient for the Complex?
This should be good news. That means China is as stupid as we are and their priorities are as warped as ours. I’m wondering who will be filling our stores with cheap plastic shit in 2049.