America’s adversaries continue to modernize and build arms while it disarms and lulls itself into a false sense of security without barely any concern. If you think China (or Russia) is worried about “MAD”, you might have to ask yourself the following:
Who has hundreds of nuclear-hardened bunkers throughout their country and who doesn’t?
Who has road-mobile ICBMs and who doesn’t?
Who hasn’t had a new nuclear missile in over 30 years?
Who has their aging nuclear missiles pointed only into the ocean and who has theirs pointed only at their adversary?
If you aren’t concerned, you’re not awake.
A forthcoming report from the bipartisan US-China Economic and Security Review Commission indicates that two brigades of DF-21D ballistic missiles have already entered service with the People’s Liberation Army, Bill Gertz, senior editor of Washington Free Beacon, wrote in an article on Oct. 13.
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Despite the strong trade and financial links between Beijing and Washington, the report said that the Communist Party government in China still views the United States as its primary adversary. China’s rapid military buildup is changing the balance of power in the Western Pacific, it said, which may bring destabilizing security competition between China and its neighbors while exacerbating regional hotspots in Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, and the East and South China seas. Continue reading
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