10/20/2021

Impossible for US to Have Military Superiority In China’s Coastal Areas



The Financial Times (FT) quoted on Saturday several sources saying that "the Chinese military launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle" in August and judged it to be a "nuclear-capable hypersonic missile." According to the FT article, the missile "flew through low-orbit space" and could help China "negate" US missile defense systems which are designed to target the fixed parabolic trajectory of a ballistic missile. The progress of the Chinese military has "caught US intelligence by surprise," the report said.

If the FT report is to be believed, it means that there is a key new member in China's nuclear deterrence system, which is a new blow to the US' mentality of strategic superiority over China.

It is meaningless to discuss the credibility of the FT report. But it is important to note the unstoppable trend that China is narrowing the gap with the US in some key military technologies as China is continuously developing its economic and technological strength. China doesn't need to engage in an "arms race" with the US - it is capable of weakening the US' overall advantages over China by developing military power at its own pace.

In the long term, the comparison between the military powers of China and the US will be in the following paradigm:The US' overall military advantage will be maintained, while its air force and navy have higher quality and its global deployment and projection capabilities will be unmatched by China's. Meanwhile, China won't have any will to globally challenge the US' dominant position in military sphere, and the US shouldn't worry about losing its military hegemony.

However, China's military buildup will focus on the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea. It is inevitable that China will take an upper hand over the US military strength in these areas thanks to the geographical proximity and the continuous increase of China's input. Chinese society has not only strong expectations for this, but also strong determination and corresponding ability to realize this reversal. The US' conventional military superiority around the world will not translate into a guarantee of superiority in these regions.

The US is very concerned about China's nuclear development. There should be no doubt that China has no plans to build a nuclear force of the same size as that of the US. In other words, China has no intention of launching a "nuclear arms race" with the US. However, China will certainly improve the quality of its nuclear deterrence to ensure that the US completely eliminates the idea of nuclear blackmail against China at any critical moment and its idea of using nuclear forces to make up for the weakness that US' conventional forces cannot crush China.

Greater survivability and penetration ability of Chinese nuclear missiles is clearly being accelerated through a variety of new missiles. Such development will ensure that neither country's nuclear forces will be used as a tool to solve regional problems. This would ensure that the damage to peace, if any, would be limited and that the region would not see a deadly collision between major powers.

The US is constantly releasing rumors that China is strengthening its nuclear strategic tools, which is believed to pave the way for public opinion in the US to further increase its military expenditure from a high starting point. But no matter how much military spending the US increases and how much new equipment it procures, it is impossible for the US to continue enjoy overwhelming military superiority in China's coastal areas. 

Anonymous

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Russia and China Warships had cross a strait in Japan and may visit Canada and USA soon. USA are shiting in the pants, must print more moneys liao to increase military spending. Many Wealthy peoples in USA are relocating to protect their money to be taxed. News of Google billionaires are setting home in sg.

Anonymous said...

Military superiority had already been shown by the USA long ago in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Did they achieve what it is purported to achieve with such superiority? These two countries are not that advance in military countermeasures and yet did not succumb to USA's military might.

China must be very backward for the USA and the West to think they can ride roughshod over Chinese coastal defence. It they think so, let it be. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, right?

A-Non-Yes-Mouse said...

Chinese and Russian warships should manoeuvre through the Caribbean and Cuba, English Channel and Straits of Gibraltar just like USA and UK sailing its warships all over the world as it likes.

China and Russia should combine force and teach the US and UK a lesson.

Anonymous said...

It is not a matter of should. They must do it on a tit for tat basis. They can tout freedom of navigation, so could China and Russia.

But I think that will elicit hysteria and rabies or mad dog disease in the USA and the West.