Biden says relations with China are thawing. Contrary to widespread belief, that's a good thing.
, which the Chinese lost. In other words, there are at most a handful of Chinese soldiers—and they would be very old officers—who havefired a shot with the intention of killing an enemy soldier. True, Taiwan’s soldiers have never fought a real war either, but they are being armed and trained by American advisers who have.Is the Chinese military worth worrying about at all? Yes.
This is the essence of China’s military strategy—“Anti-Access/Area Denial” . While this is essentially astrategy, it can also mean a strategy to keep outside powers far away while Chinese armed forces take aggressive action against Taiwan or other areas of interest.A former senior CIA analyst with a specialty on China told me that starting about 20 years ago, China—anticipating the possibility of a war—began examining the pillars of U.S. power projection in the East Pacific.
It’s also worth noting that much of China’s rapid buildup has been in response to what its leaders see as a threat from the United States. The Pentagon’s report makes this point up front. China’s leaders, it states, “believe that structural changes in the international system andare the root causes of intensifying strategic competition” between Washington and Beijing.
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