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The development of the People's Liberation Army in recent years is obvious to all, and at the same time, it has also made Americans more and more anxious to get angry......
According to foreign media on February 29, a few days ago, US military observers Peter Robertson and Wilson Beaver jointly published an article entitled "China not only spends more money, but also spends more wisely" in the United States, and hyped up the "potential threat to China's defense budget" in the article.
The strength of the PLA is growing stronger).
According to the latest public data,China's defense budget for 2023 is 1,553.7 billion yuan, or about 2,247 yuan900 million US dollars, an increase of 72%。In contrast,The U.S. defense budget for the new fiscal year will be as high as $886.3 billion, an increase of about 10 percent over last yearApproaching the "$1 trillion" mark. In addition to that,China's defense budget accounts for less than 2 percent of China's annual GDP, compared to 3 percent for the United States-- I believe that such a huge disparity in numbers is enough to prove that the United States is the country in the world that is keen on "expanding armaments and fighting for hegemony."
However, in order to splash this basin of dirty water on China's head, the Americans can be said to do everything.
American aircraft carrier formations).
In the article, they claim that China's defense budget has not only increased dramatically, but has tripled since 2000, from only 10% of US spending to 37% of US spending, and that the efficiency of the use of the defense budget has also increased dramatically — if you take into account the impact of inflation, parity purchasing power and other data, they saidIn fact, China's military purchasing power grows by more than 10% every year, much faster than China's GDP growth.
They also statedIn 2000, the purchasing power of China was a little less than that of France, but now, the total purchasing power of the military budgets of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Turkey can barely "match" with China.
Aesthetic scholars believe that the cost of the Chinese ** has actually increased significantly).
The logic of these two American scholars is actually particularly interesting - their core point is,China is able to buy the same level of military equipment as the United States with less yuan, resulting in the fact that although the budget for Chinese spending is not as high as that of the United States, the speed of the PLA's strength is much higher than that of the United States.
As for what they say that "China is actively expanding its military" for, it is still the same cliché: it is nothing more than "resolving conflicts in the Taiwan Strait", "challenging freedom ......of navigation in the South China Sea", "destroying the geopolitical ecological chain of the United States" and so onIts core logic is still very typical of using the hypothetical "China threat theory" to argue China's "hegemonic conspiracy". As for the so-called evidence?Of course they don't.
The Chinese Coast Guard is confronting the Philippine Coast Guard in the South China Sea).
But there is a huge loophole in the logic of their argument for the "China threat theory" -- leaving aside the so-called "real growth index of purchasing power of China" that is very easy to manipulateThe US Department of Defense cannot spend money to buy good equipment, and the US military is developing slowly, can it rely on China for this?
Isn't it the United States itself that allowed the decline of the U.S. shipbuilding industry back then, which led to the current surge in labor costs in the U.S. shipbuilding industryIsn't it the United States itself that allows the military-industrial complex to interfere in the development of national defense science and technology and indulge the military industrial enterprises in all kinds of "squandering" national defense funds?Isn't it the United States itself that has maintained a large number of troops stationed overseas for a long time and has to spend huge sums of money to maintain US warships and warplanes all over the world?
American shipbuilding has been in decline for decades)
It can be said thatThe relative decline of the US military is entirely the result of the continuous death of the Americans themselves over the past few decades, and it has nothing to do with China. And the so-called "China threat" is also nonsense, after all, China is following the path of peaceful diplomacy and common development, and China does not have the "tradition" of opening its first place to the territorial waters of other countries to show off its military might. The fundamental reason for these American scholars' smearing of the PLA is that they narrowly regard China as an "opponent for hegemony." In this regard, we can only say that China's national defense construction is only to safeguard its own interests, and China has never sought hegemony, and we also hope that the United States will not be this "hegemon" -- but if the United States must act against China, then for the time being, it will only be the United States itself that suffers.