There are many theories out there on what will trigger America’s collapse. One of the techniques we used on the USSR before the collapse was the arms race. We out spent them.
The tables may be turned, as China passes Japan to become the #2 economy in the world, is moving away from investing in the US dollar & Treasuries, and is now pushing on the military side. Do I think we will end up at war with China? No, but it will help nudge us closer to the edge and stretch our already stretched military even further.
There is also the deception question of why was this report delayed, and buried on a busy news day…
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China Targets U.S.
Posted 06:56 PM ET
Chinese navy seamen stand in front of missiles from the frigate Ma’anshan. A Pentagon report says China is “pursuing a variety of air, sea,…Defense: A Pentagon report suppressed by the administration describes a massive Chinese military buildup that has only one purpose: to deny us access to the Western Pacific and destroy American forces that try.
The required annual report to Congress on China’s military power was finally released Monday amid questions of why the document, due in March, was delayed five months. With the Ground Zero mosque dominating the news, maybe now was considered a good time to sneak the grim news past the American people.
Perhaps it was to avoid offending the sensibilities of the country helping to finance the Obama administration’s unconscionable debt. Maybe it was delayed to avoid questions as to why, with this growing threat, we are unilaterally disarming, shredding our nuclear inventory and canceling major weapons systems America needs to defend itself.
We have commented extensively on China’s growing threat, and this report, coming alongside news that China has passed Japan as the world’s second largest economy, confirms our worst fears as China builds a military far beyond its legitimate defense needs.
The 2010 report, curiously renamed the “Annual Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China,” speaks of China’s program to deny U.S. forces access to regions it considers critical to its security.
“China is fielding an array of conventionally armed ballistic missiles, ground- and air-launched cruise missiles, special operations forces and cyberwarfare capabilities to hold targets at risk throughout the region,” the report says. These targets would be American bases and carrier battle groups that might be sent to aid Taiwan.
The 74-page Pentagon report also notes that China is “pursuing a variety of air, sea, undersea, space and counterspace” weapons designed specifically to attack U.S. forces. Primary among them is the Dong Feng 21D carrier-killer ballistic missile that can hit moving and heavily defended American carriers with pinpoint accuracy at distances between 900 and 1,000 miles from China’s coasts.
China’s midrange missiles are “designed to target forces at sea, combined with overhead and over-the-horizon targeting systems to locate and track moving ships. At the same time, China’s growing cyberwarfare and anti-satellite capabilities are designed to blind and hinder any U.S. military response.”
For anti-access airstrikes, the Chinese have home-built fighter aircraft as well as Russian Sukhoi SU-30s, all armed with anti-ship cruise missiles. At sea, anti-access weapons include guided missile ships equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles.
China’s increasingly blue-water navy includes Sovremenny-class guided-missile destroyers purchased from the Russians. They come equipped with supersonic, sea-skimming SS-N-22 Sunburn cruise missiles designed for one purpose: attack American carrier battle groups.
China has six nuclear-powered attack submarines and 54 quiet, diesel-electric submarines, many of them equipped with advanced, anti-ship cruise missiles. In October 2006, a Chinese Song-class attack submarine surfaced within weapons distance of the American carrier Kitty Hawk off Okinawa. China also plans to deploy two aircraft carriers of its own by 2015. It has already acquired four retired carriers.
As Defense Secretary Robert Gates leaves his post, we have more to worry about than our strategy in Afghanistan and the July 2011 target for withdrawal.
China is challenging diminishing American power in the Western Pacific and globally, and Gates’ replacement and the rest of the administration need to be grilled on what they intend to do about it, if anything.
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I found the link in theRightScoop.com news section. Link to original article: China Targets US
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