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threat to China«Ukraine crisis is just warming up» – the head of the US nuclear forces warns
Reports of military build-up under Xi Jinping worry security experts in the US. They have long seen China as the greatest geopolitical threat.
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- Reto Bollmann
- Dominic Fisher
At the Communist Party Congress, Xi Jinping announced that he would continue to build up the military.
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Jinping described the global security situation as increasingly unstable and uncertain.
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That’s what it’s about
Xi Jinping wants to upgrade the Chinese military.
China’s build-up raises fears of an invasion of Taiwan. The US sees China as the biggest geopolitical threat, national security reports have revealed.
The commander in chief of the US nuclear forces has now warned: “This Ukraine crisis that we are in right now is just the warm-up”.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping at this year’s Communist Party Congress, described the global security situation as increasingly unstable and uncertain – and in this context announced that the People’s Republic would comprehensively strengthen military armament and training, as the “mirror” writes. The military rearmament is entirely in line with the increasingly authoritarian courseto which Xi trims the land.
“The big event is coming”
The commander-in-chief of the US nuclear forces also gave himself up In a recent speech, he was extremely concerned about the international security situation and that China could lose the USA militarily. “The big event is imminent. And it won’t be long before we’re being tested in ways we haven’t been in a long time.”
The commander of Stratcom, which is the institution that manages the US nuclear potential, further warned: “This Ukraine crisis that we are in right now is just a warm-up”. Competitors like China are outpacing the US, and dramatically so, Richard said. The admiral is convinced that the United States must step up its deterrence or it will be overrun.
“As I judge our level of deterrence towards China, the ship is slowly sinking,” Richard said. “It’s going down slowly, but it’s going down as they bring their skills to market faster than we do.” If the trend continues, it will not matter how good the commanders, the forces and the preparation of the US are – they will not have the necessary resources. “And that’s a very short-term problem,” stresses Richard.
Concerns about Taiwan invasion growing
China’s rearmament also raises renewed concerns about a Invasion of Taiwan. Xi has long been publicly striving to take over the island republic. As recently as October, the United States published a paper on national security in which it identified not Russia but China as the greatest geopolitical threat.
“The People’s Republic of China is the only competitor that not only intends to transform the international order, but also has the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do so.” In the competition with China, the next ten years are “clearly the decisive decade”.
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