According to foreign media reports, a few days ago, the US Navy issued the so-called "new strategic guide", this document called "the entire Marine Corps Team: Strategic Guide from the Secretary of the Navy", for the first time appeared to recognize that "the PLA Navy already has the ability to compete with the military strength of the US Navy", which immediately aroused great concern from all media, which is the first time that the US military clearly pointed out that China's naval strength is comparable to that of the US military, so its significance is not insignificant.
It is reported that the "guide" clearly states that the goal of the United States is not to fight the PLA, and no one wants to get involved in the conflict, but the ultimate "responsibility" of the United States still includes preventing the peaceful reunification of the two sides of the strait. Foreign media reported that the U.S. Secretary of the Navy listed "the sharp increase in the strength of the Platon Army," U.S. military culture, global climate change, and the new crown epidemic as the four major challenges facing the U.S. Navy, and he also stressed that of these four challenges, the long-term challenge from the PLA is the most critical and important. The guide reads: The PLA has a naval strength comparable to ours, and it also means that the PLA has fundamentally expanded its overall size and combat capabilities, gradually acquiring the world's largest high seas fleet.
The guide declares that the PLA intends to use its vast military presence to "challenge the United States, its partnerships, and America's prosperity," the first time in a generation that the United States has encountered such a formidable and strong strategic competitor. Moreover, the PLA's network capabilities, anti-satellite capabilities, integrated air defense capabilities and anti-ship ballistic missile capabilities are rapidly improving, and the U.S. Navy believes that the PLA's ability to "dumpling dumplings" warships has surpassed that of the United States, and will have more new warships than the United States in the future. Analysts pointed out that objectively speaking, the Chinese Navy is slightly inferior to the US Navy in terms of overall combat strength, hardware strength, and software strength, and is obviously lagging behind in the fields of large aircraft carrier formations, advanced nuclear submarines, strategic missile nuclear submarines, and overseas base groups, and is lagging behind in the scale of capital ships.
We need to see that previously, some US media claimed that by the end of 2020, the PLA Navy already had 360 warships, while the US Navy only had 297 ships, and the PLA had surpassed the US military to become the world's largest navy in terms of numbers. In fact, the US military has 11 aircraft carriers, more than 90 guided missile cruisers and guided missile destroyers, more than 50 nuclear submarines of various types, and the gap between the Chinese Navy on the main combat platform is not a star and a half, in fact, the international counterpart naval scale estimation system is calculated by the total tonnage of naval ships, the United States still far exceeds the PLA in the total tonnage of ships, and the US military still has a great advantage in the number of nuclear-powered submarines. Some analysts believe that the purpose of the United States in advocating "the scale of the PLA Navy is the largest in the world" is very simple, that is, it wants to ask the US Congress for more appropriations, and to this end, it will not hesitate to brainlessly increase the strength of the PLA.
Analysts pointed out that the argument mentioned in the guide is also basically the same as before, because the United States is currently suffering from the economic crisis caused by the reduction in the issuance of US dollar treasury bonds, the United States does not even have enough money to pay salaries for soldiers, in the face of this situation, the US government is likely to reduce the expenditure of various services, and in order to ensure that the funds in its hands are not cut, the US Navy must strive to create a state that needs more funds to surpass its opponents, which is also the reason why the US Navy deliberately raises the strength of the PLA Navy in disregard of the facts.
In fact, although the PLA Navy is no longer what it used to be, it still lags far behind the US military in terms of overall strength, and it still needs to continue to catch up. Taking aircraft carriers as an example, the PLA Navy only has two conventional aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and Shandong, while the US military already has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and the size of the fleet far exceeds that of the PLA Navy. In the face of this situation, it is still possible to solemnly declare that "the strength of the People's Liberation Army has caught up with the US military", and its sinister intentions are clearly revealed.