How China's Military Views the United States

The only quibble I have with that reporting is that I have always understood that both of us have long penetrated each other's systems in a way that can be activated in the event of conflict. One thing about a cyberwar with China is that they are also vulnerable. Russia less so, so they have less fear of reciprocal attacks. But we are the most vulnerable.

I have read open source that we have done a lot of "hardening" and "cleaning" over the last decade and are not as vulnerable as we once were. Hopefully that will never be tested. In both fictional imaginings I have read about a US China War - Ghost Fleet and 2034, China disabled our forces via cyber at the outset.

 

No doubt this is the battleground for wars to come. Deploy an EMP on the East Coast of USA while hacking military com in the Pacific and the CCP will be in Taiwan before you can access your Facebook feed - without a shot being fired.

 

I remember the fear of Japan surpassing the American economy. Crichton wrote a book and it became a movie. Rising Sun was its name maybe. China has many issues that they aren’t addressing if they want to overtake the US economy.

 

Somewhere 100s of posts back I posted a link to a short book on this called Carrier Killer. Good read

 

The kill chain (locating the CVN, guiding a missile to it, evade/overwhelm defenses, strike target accurately) for a long range strike on a carrier group can be disrupted at many steps, but the true threat of long range strikes by hypersonic missiles or ASBMs isn't really that they can sink carriers. The reason is because the kill chain becomes a lot harder to disrupt the shorter the range is. Having such weapons will force our CBGs to operate farther away from the battlefield, which reduces their effectiveness.

Then there's also the matter of cost-effectiveness. Reportedly the Chinese hypersonic gliders are quite cheap and they're making hundreds a year, whereas each SM or PAC3 missile costs a few million dollars. Our SOP is usually to fire 2 missiles for each incoming threat. You see how that can be a problem if war breaks out, especially given China's industrial capacity.

 

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There are no heroic nations. There are only heroes. And too few of those.

 

NYC subway …

 

This man gets my vote for craziest human being on the planet …

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You're confounding two concepts. Trade currency and reserve currency are not the same thing. China is in fact already quite far along in advancing the Yuan in international trades, starting with their own. About half of China's cross-border transactions is now conducted in Yuan.

The article is correct however that China does not want the Yuan to replace the dollar as the reserve currency. It's share globally as a reserve currency will naturally rise as countries need to stock up on Yuan to trade with China and increasingly, with each other as well, but that's just a side effect of China's push to advance the Yuan's role in international trade. All the reasons listed in the article are pretty legitimate as to why China doesn't actually want the Yuan to be the premier reserve currency of the world.

With that said, China also doesn't want the dollar to be the dominant international reserve currency. So on that front they'll be pushing for a multipolar solution, where a basket of currencies make up the bulk of sovereign reserves rather than one currency.

 

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Interesting interview with Orville Schell on the psychological DNA of Chinese leadership and larger society



But nonetheless, Jiang Zemin brought them back again to some degree — so that by the time he left power, it was relatively hopeful that engagement and the global compact with China involved might still go forward.

And then we got this period of ambiguity under Hu Jintao. You’ve got him claiming the South China Sea. And remember this idea of “core interest” 核心利益, which was stuff that you can’t negotiate: the South China Sea, Tibet, Xinjiang, other border regions. And that’s when things started hardening up. [Ed. For example, in a speech given in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2011, Hu Jintao made five proposals for “healthier and more stable Sino-US relations,” the last of which was for the US to respect China’s “core interests”; there he specifically mentioned Taiwan and Tibet.]

And then along came Xi Jinping and this whole idea of a national rejuvenation and the China dream. It really froze things into a very rigid “us and them” posture, where the forces that had been latent of a hostile West in opposition to China came back with a vengeance.

And that was the sad, tragic ending of engagement. And in my view, whatever successes China has had — which are not inconsiderable and must be acknowledged — there’s an immense tragedy building here, because China has been so successful: it’s accomplished what it could not accomplish for a century — which is to become a modern, wealthy, powerful country. And Xi Jinping is now threatening to undermine all of that with an absolutely senseless provocation of all the countries around him. It makes it very difficult for them to collaborate, and for “peaceful rise” or “peaceful development” to become the hour of the day. Instead, we have “wolf-warrior diplomacy” 戰狼外交, and we have blocs dividing like oil and water.

Schell on US-China: Engagement, Tragedy, and Penetrating the Veil