In recent years, in order to cheat the budget, the US military industrial giants have repeatedly come up with strange tricks, and they have often written all kinds of PPTs to cheat the budget with Congress about China as an imaginary enemy, and the result is that they have found an impossible opponent for themselves.
China has always wanted to get along with the United States, but the United States has always regarded China as an imaginary enemy. From the "leapfrog tactics" in the first island chain and the blockade of the PLA by using dozens of US military bases to the "swarm tactics" of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to consume PLA ships in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, US politicians have always planned one after another to deal with China. And the US arms giants have also made a lot of money by hyping up the theory of the China threat. Last year, for example, the U.S. Navy received a sky-high budget of more than $255 billion.
China is a peace-loving country and is unwilling to engage in an arms race with the United States. This kind of military thinking with "defense" as the core is embodied in all aspects. For example, China is the only country that has explicitly pledged not to be the first to strike with nuclear weapons. However, in recent years, the United States has pushed the front to China's doorstep, and has to provoke trouble from reporting from the DPRK to the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. Several agents of the United States are also wolf ambitions; Japan is eyeing the Diaoyu Islands, the Philippines is coveting China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea, and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Taiwan Island is even more bent on separatism and becoming the "king of the mountain." It is a matter of sovereignty and security, and no matter how much China can endure it, it will not be able to endure it any longer.
The manifestation of China's unbearable performance is the explosion of troops. In recent years, the speed at which Chinese ships have been launched has increased unprecedentedly, and they have been jokingly called dumplings after pots. Last year, the US naval intelligence department issued a report of its own, pointing out that China's shipbuilding capacity is more than 230 times that of the United States.
Of course, at that time, it was generally believed that the United States was actually watered. Because when this group of people counts China's shipbuilding capacity, they count both civilian and military production capacity together, and the main focus is to count large numbers to scare Congress. The bigger the statistic, the easier it is to get Congress to nod and raise military spending.
But this thing is funny and funny, originally, everyone thought it was a very watery and foolish report, but now, it seems to be coming true. The main reason is not that China is trying too hard, but that the United States is pulling too hard.
Recently, the US media Bloomberg and the US Naval Research Center first broke the news that the delivery of the new "Constellation-class" missile frigate and the "Columbia-class" submarine capable of carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles will be delayed. These two star products of the US military industry were originally expected to be officially delivered in 2026 and 2027 respectively, but they have now been delayed. The delivery cycle of the "Columbia-class" submarines is expected to be delayed by a year to a year and a half, and the "Constellation-class" is even more exaggerated, and it is possible to launch it directly until 2029.
This is definitely not a trivial matter, because the "Constellation-class" frigate was originally intended to become the main frigate in the future military construction system of the United States. And the "Columbia-class" submarines, in the words of Bloomberg, are one of the "highest-level" procurement programs of the US military. In other words, the next generation of "main force" and "sharp knife" units of the US Navy are all gone. According to this trend, it is not impossible for China and the United States to open a 200-fold gap in shipbuilding capacity in the military industry, after all, if the United States becomes 0, then as long as China's ships are launched as planned, let alone 200 times, 300 times is not a dream. The fact that the United States, which is so half-defeated, actually keeps saying that it wants to suppress China within the first island chain is somewhat of a bit of black humor.