The United States has withdrawn from the Intermediate-Range Missile Treaty, a bilateral arms control agreement originally signed between the United States and Russia, which limits missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers and prohibits both sides from equipping them with intermediate-range missiles in an effort to reduce the likelihood of threats to Europe. However, with the abrogation of the treaty by the United States, the United States and Russia began to actively develop relevant medium-range missiles. There is an opinion that the US move is directly aimed at China, because the "Intermediate-Range Missile Treaty" does not impose any restrictions on China.
According to publicly available information from the US Department of Defense, the United States plans to deploy medium-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region, and the commander of the US Army Pacific openly stated that this is to strengthen deterrence against China. It can be seen that the United States regards China as the greatest threat and has taken containment and containment measures in a number of areas, including pressure through military deployment. The deployment of medium-range missiles by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region is a strategic move aimed directly at China. In addition, the United States plans to deploy hypersonic missiles in the region in an attempt to further weaken the deterrence capabilities of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
By abrogating the Intermediate-Range Missile Treaty, the United States is directly targeting China and taking an urgent posture. According to Japan**, the United States is trying to establish a missile test notification mechanism between China and the United States, that is, to notify the United States in advance before China conducts a missile test. The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to notify each other about missile test launches to avoid strategic miscalculations. Now the United States is also trying to sign a similar notification mechanism with China. According to information revealed by the United States**, this move shows that the United States hopes that China will not retaliate or retaliate.
The United States threatens China by deploying intermediate-range missiles and requires China to inform the United States about missile tests, in an apparent attempt to further weaken the PLA's ballistic missile deterrent capabilities. Currently, the United States is simultaneously developing a number of medium-range missiles and plans to deploy them in the Asia-Pacific region. However, since the United States has abandoned the development and equipment of medium-range missiles for a long time, it can be seen that the United States has a weak mind on the issue of medium-range missiles.
In 2019, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) unveiled the DF-17 hypersonic missile, a move that rendered the U.S. ballistic missile defense system useless, a mockery. The United States has been struggling with hypersonic missile technology, so it is very embarrassed by this. China's rise has unnerved the United States, which fears that its hegemony could be in jeopardy. Therefore, they have launched a containment and containment of China in various fields, and even used military deployments to exert pressure.
Not only that, but the United States has also asked China to inform them before launching missiles, which exposes their hegemonic nature. In fact, the United States has always shown no mercy to ballistic missile test launches. As early as 2023, they conducted several test launches of ballistic missiles, not only the land-based Minuteman-3 ICBM, but also the sea-based Trident IID5 ICBM. Therefore, for the United States, any illusions about hypersonic missiles are unrealistic.