Top Pentagon officials told Congress that U.S. forces must prepare for confrontation with Beijing in the coming years with major investments in modernized weaponry and enhanced foreign alliances
Pentagon Says Record Defense Budget Is Necessary To Compete With Chinamid mounting concerns over China’s growing power, top Pentagon officials told Congress Thursday that U.S. forces must prepare for confrontation with Beijing in the coming years with major investments in modernized weaponry and enhanced foreign alliances.
“People’s Republic of China remains our No. 1 long-term geostrategic security challenge,” General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a House panel Thursday. “China’s actions are moving it down the path toward confrontation and potential conflict with its neighbors—and possibly with the United States. But again, I say: war with China is neither inevitable nor imminent.”
Milley appeared alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to testify before the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense about the Pentagon’s record $842 billion budget request, which represents a 3.2% increase over the current fiscal year. Much of their testimony and lawmakers’ questions revolved around the threat posed by China, which is expanding its nuclear forces and increasing its threats toward the U.S.-allied island of Taiwan.
The Biden Administration has labeled Beijing as a “pacing challenge” that holds the potential to reshape the international order. As China has amassed economic power in recent years, it has forged close ties with governments in Africa, Latin America, and Central and Southeast Asia. The U.S.
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