At a recent meeting of the Armed Services Committee of the US House of Representatives, Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, commented on China, saying that China is one of the three major problems in a row. While his main goal is to secure more funding in fiscal 2024, his "three conundrums" are well organized and worthy of our attention and study.
He said that China will advance side by side with the United States by the middle of this century, and the two sides will have equal strength and form a situation of equal competition. This means that the military superiority of the United States over China over the years will gradually disappear, including aircraft carriers, nuclear and other technical equipment, the level of innovation and innovation.
In this case, the situation in which the United States has been throwing off China for 20 to 30 years will no longer exist. The United States has long been in a hegemonic position and is accustomed to controlling the situation from a safe distance.
But now, as China and other countries grow in power, the United States is starting to feel uneasy. This way of thinking of the United States is obviously outdated, because if it relies only on absolute superiority to make decisions, it will lead to challenges to the United States' position in the world.
Now the United States has to face a completely new world, one that is no longer completely dominated by it, which puts a huge strain on its mentality.
The second problem is that he worries that China's nuclear missiles will be able to hit the United States, which has been a long-standing problem. In fact, as can be seen from the display of ICBMs and other ** equipment at the Chinese National Day parade, China's long-range strike capability is already very powerful.
With each parade, the range of the Dongfeng series of missiles is constantly increasing. Although some people believe that China's intercontinental nuclear ** can threaten the United States, in fact, the United States itself has a stronger long-range strike capability, and can even reach all parts of the world.
Therefore, the question is not far-fetched.
He pointed out that although the United States has a nuclear capability commensurate with its own national strength, China's nuclear power is currently on the rise, so he believes that if it hits itself, it will bring great trouble.
Therefore, the United States needs to ensure the absolute security of its homeland, including the defense capability of strategic objectives to achieve full scores. However, the situation in other countries is stormy, and the United States' own ** equipment can cause serious harm to other countries, so this may not even be believed by the United States itself.
The goal of the United States is to further develop its "triad" strike capability and increase its altitude in order to reduce the threat to the United States from other countries' traditional ballistic and hypersonic speeds**.
However, the third trouble that the United States itself has made up is the rapid progress of Sino-Russian military cooperation, which makes the United States feel troublesome. In fact, from the perspective of triangular relations, NATO, led by the United States, already includes 31 countries, and its number and comprehensive capabilities are stronger than any other organization in the world, and it is an absolute military organization.
U.S. spending has continued to grow, an increase of 3.2 percent compared with last year, but it believes that the proximity of other countries to the United States is a major challenge to U.S. security, and judges itself and China with the mentality that "state officials can set fires, but people can't light lamps", and any point of threat or conflict of interest is regarded as trouble.
Even, the United States wants to threaten a country that cannot be defended, resisted, or complained, which is the ideal state of the United States.
Every country has the core means to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests, and the United States cannot act arbitrarily. As a global hegemon, the United States has been in the position for many years, but its mentality is increasingly fragile.
The United States has powerful conventional** such as missiles, nuclear **, bombers**, etc., which are difficult for the world to match. However, the world is like chess, the development of the United States has reached its peak, and the path of the development of high-end equipment has also tended to be consistent.
Therefore, the previous advantages are gradually being lost, and new equipment, new capabilities, and new technologies may explode one day. The so-called absolute security and hegemony of the United States is declining, the altar of military first and global first is no longer there, and its foundation is shaking.
The United States always blames others without examining itself, and if it can do its own thing, other countries do not need to worry too much about their development. However, the problem with the United States is that it cannot do well in itself, but prevents others from doing well, and this mentality has widened the distance between the United States and the "great powers".
As a result, contradictions with the United States are constantly growing. In a marathon, Americans don't mind running slower, but they feel anxious about others running fast. This mindset poses a significant threat to the security of the United States.