So you edit my post so you can answer a irrelevent question so you can keep crying that china is the worlds enemy, but I want the echo chamber?
Hello Kettle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...military_bases
I see one nation that is a bigger threat to any other nation on that list. It's the country I live in even.....
MMO-Champ the place where calling out trolls get you into more trouble than trolling.
They didn't predict everything to the letter but it says that this would happen because the Afghan forces were a joke. You should read a good summary nothing you are replying to is a hot take everyone was saying the same thing. Heck we openly said Afghanistan would fall in 90 days or less publicly.
I was re-directing your weak point to a more stronger point in light of China.
They're not looking to divide and conquer through military occupation, they are doing it economically. And are very successful at it, with the IMF/World Bank having to bail out countries who are bankrupted because of their bad fiscal planning due to corruption/BRI contracts.
But if you do want to highlight their military, which is a considerable growing factor right now, despite their low international presence, I'll raise you this:
China building third missile field for hundreds of new ICBMs
Why am I not surprised.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-times/
Got a more reliable/credible source?
MMO-Champ the place where calling out trolls get you into more trouble than trolling.
Here are a series of other sources highlighting the ICBM concern, pick your poison Joe:
https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/CAS...ssile-silo-si/
https://fas.org/blogs/security/2021/...le-silo-field/
https://www.ft.com/content/11a72ce9-...0-d6d391b471da
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...057_story.html
Are we still pretending world wars are a serious possibility? That China has any interest in starting a war with the countries that are integral to its economy via trade? China isn't going to go to war with both its suppliers and the consumers of the goods it makes.
Why would China go to war if they'd get everything they want anyway in a few decades.
OF COURSE China is building up their nuclear forces as fast as they can. As the US Military has stated over and over and over, right now the US can completely destroy China with our nuclear forces - heck with a fraction of it - and they cannot retaliate in kind. And the offical US position is that ALL CARDS ARE ON THE TABLE. This would include launching 3-5k nukes at China.
Building up 2700 more nukes (to get from around 300 to around 3,000) is kind of a necessary thing for them to do if they are going to survive against the US. If you were in their shoes, you would probably be pushing for 5 or 6 thousand to match the US, not less.
I will dive more into the military side of things, but do you acknowledge that their Predatory Lending/Debt Trap Diplomacy (as a way of crippling nations) is both effective, efficient, & concerning relative to military campaigns?
China's military spending is shrouded in its commercial sector, the better measure of their spending is their raw output. Aside from their recent rapid ICBM expansion, their naval production is on a whole other level, and they already outmatch the US significantly in the Western Pacific, and they aren't slowing down.
Basically. They are ignoring things like the DNI report I linked earlier that highlights the threat of China on pages 6-8:
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/docum...ied-Report.pdf
Some people have to wait until the media tells them what to think in order for them to care.