Due to the highly hostile attitude of the United States toward China, many foreign media have speculated about where the "Sino-US decisive battle" is. The words of the former US Secretary of Defense imply that China, the "place of decisive battle," may not be in the south sea of Taiwan, and the Chinese side must be fully prepared for this.
Is there a possibility of conflict between China and the United States? And once the conflict breaks out, where will this "decisive battle" be? These two issues are the focus of extensive discussion, and the Chinese side has given a very positive response to this, showing our peace-loving attitude. Earlier, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang said in interviews with a number of foreign media that it is indeed possible that China and the United States may have a military conflict over the Taiwan issue, so "if China and the United States do not want to fight, they must jointly oppose and contain "Taiwan independence." Ambassador Qin Gang's remarks are equivalent to issuing the clearest warning to the United States, reminding the US Government not to continue to hover on the brink of danger, but it is unknown to what extent China's reminder can be listened to by the US Government.
In fact, to the question of where a "decisive battle" may occur between China and the United States, former US Defense Secretary Carter gave a wary answer. In an interview with the media last year, Carter pointed out that the United States needs to be prepared to "assist" in defending Taiwan, and that he himself was serious about this when he was at the Pentagon. Carter specifically stressed that the United States will not go to war in the Taiwan Strait, but this is not because Carter does not want to go to war with China, according to him, just because "the Taiwan Strait is too close to the mainland", so the US military will fight in other places where the United States wants to fight and will win. Carter's statement confirms the fact that the US military is difficult to defeat the People's Liberation Army around the Taiwan Strait, and this statement is very honest. However, Carter's so-called U.S. military will "fight where it wants to fight and will win" is still a statement that deserves our vigilance, which may reflect the thinking of a considerable number of US military personnel.
For a long time, China and the United States have maintained a state of confrontation around the Taiwan Strait, and in recent years, the situation in the South China Sea has also heated up day by day, and the US military has provoked China from time to time in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. However, peacetime and wartime are completely different, and the US military is also well aware that US Navy warships sailing in the Taiwan Strait and even in the South China Sea are difficult to retreat in the face of the PLA's perfect sea combat system. As a result, many within the U.S. military have proposed the need to distance naval forces from Chinese mainland, at least about 1,000 nautical miles, to ensure safety. As a former US secretary of defense, Carter must be very clear about the military logic behind this, and his so-called will not fight in the Taiwan Strait means that the US military is ready to pull away and engage in engagements where the US military thinks it is more certain. In fact, the US military does still retain the power of the ocean today, and if the US military and China are at war, its more conservative strategy is indeed to pull away, cut off China's overseas lines of communication, and use strategic bombers to launch missiles at the PLA Navy fleet at a long distance under the cover of aircraft carrier-based aircraft.
This mode of operation of the US military has been discussed for a long time by the US military media and is usually regarded as a "safe" strategy for starting a war against China, which is very worthy of our vigilance. Although the Dongfeng series of missiles can pose a major threat to the US Navy warships, after all, it is impossible to strike at the US military in the ocean-going area, and the overseas communication lines still need to be maintained by the ocean-going navy, and the naval strength is also where the gap between the mainland and the United States is large. The former US Secretary of Defense dared to say that he would fight wherever he could, which showed the mentality of some hawks within the US military, and this group of people also believed that they could rely on the using the us military superiority to fight a war that could defeat China. The existence of this mentality is a huge threat to Sino-US relations and world peace, although China is a peace-loving country, but we can not be too uplifting to the United States, we must make a good response plan.
In the long run, China needs to develop a strong navy to gradually acquire the ability to defend its own ocean-going lines of communication and to lift the current unilateral superiority of the U.S. military in the ocean. Of course, this takes time and huge investment, and cannot be completed overnight, but China, with its strong comprehensive industrial system and the low cost of shipbuilding brought about by the demographic dividend, will gradually narrow the gap with the US military in the future. In the short term, we need to strengthen the ability of China's economy to circulate internally, not to let the country's key resources be subject to people, to be prepared to deal with any short-term external blockade impact, and to continue to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the navy and air force, especially for the US military's air power to make corresponding response deployments. All in all, we can't lift up the Americans too much, and the US government may still carry out military provocations against China, and even take the initiative to provoke military conflicts.