Over the past two years since the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been going on, China has been observing the actions of Russia, the United States and other parties on and off the battlefield to learn lessons and find out its own shortcomings, so as to prepare for possible changes in the Asia-Pacific region in the future.
The U.S. military has apparently realized this and has begun to hint at U.S. politics that this is what the U.S. side should really care about right now, and has even openly sung against the White House.
[General Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, recently attended a congressional hearing]
Recently, General Brown, the number one leader of the US military system and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went to Capitol Hill to attend a hearing organized by the US House of Representatives.
In response to a question about "how China can help Russia increase its military potential", Brown bluntly said that China has not provided any actual military assistance to Russia in connection with the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and China has not done anything except publicly condemn Russia.
Brown's remarks are undoubtedly in opposition to the White House. Recently, the U.S. government is actively smearing the normal economic and trade cooperation between China and Russia, claiming that China is using trade means to provide Russia with a large number of manufactured industrial products, helping the Putin government to reorganize Russia's military industry, and in fact supporting Russia to continue the war in Ukraine.
The U.S. State Department has already released rumors that the U.S. is preparing to take "further measures" against some Chinese companies that maintain cooperation with Russia. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is also prepared to raise relevant issues during his visit to China. And now Brown has come forward to deny this on behalf of the US military, which will undoubtedly make the US government's lies self-defeating.
[The U.S. government has recently frequently hyped up the topic of China's support for Russia's war]
It is true that the US military is not cooperating with the State Department and other departments to hype up this matter, which may involve geostrategic differences within the United States, but more because, in the eyes of the US military, what Americans should really care about now is not whether China supports Russia to continue the war in Ukraine, but what China has learned from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and what impact China's corresponding adjustment will have on the US Asia-Pacific strategy.
At the hearing, Brown himself mentioned that China has been paying attention to the actions of the United States and Russia, and by observing the situation in Russia and Ukraine, in turn understanding its own capabilities, and then economically enhancing its military strength and war potential, it is preparing to prevent similar conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region.
It is only natural for the U.S. military to be concerned about what China has learned from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
At present, the United States has certain geostrategic similarities in various hot spots around the world, and its core idea is to use regional allies to escalate the situation, find trouble for its own perceived adversaries, and even cause regional turmoil by triggering wars, so as to reap its own benefits.
[After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States made a lot of money]
For example, after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the security situation in Europe was tense, and the United States promoted the return of international capital from Europe to the United States through interest rate hikes and other means. Add to this the surge in orders for the military industry and the massive entry of American LNG into Europe. The United States has made a lot of money by provoking Russia and Ukraine to go to war. The United States is now actively inciting the Philippines and other parties to confront China, to a certain extent, in order to achieve similar goals.
Therefore, a geopolitical crisis similar to Ukraine is likely to unfold in the Asia-Pacific direction, with the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, and the Korean Peninsula all likely flashpoints. And when the time comes, the US will inevitably apply some of the methods that are now used on Russia to China. Naturally, China needs to take precautions by observing the actions of the US in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
At the same time, the outside world must now admit that although the sanctions of the United States and the West have caused huge troubles to Russia, and Russia's previous response has many shortcomings, the Putin government has indeed explored a set of effective response systems, successfully transferred Russia's domestic economy to wartime mode, and ensured basic domestic stability while maintaining the war.
[Putin's government, despite all difficulties, has managed to maintain the war in Ukraine]
Russia's experience and lessons in the process of responding to the problem are undoubtedly something that China should learn from. Among other things, the process of completing Russia's economic restructuring and its subsequent efforts to solve new problems deserves China's attention.
You know, China has not been involved in a war for many years, and China, like most countries in the world, lacks the experience to carry out wartime economic transformation under the conditions of modern warfare.
It should be added that China and Russia are different from each other, China's overall economic strength is actually stronger than Russia's, and its domestic industrial structure is more perfect, with manufacturing capacity much higher than that of Russia.
Russia's complete break with the West and the elevation of Sino-Russian relations have given China a stable channel for importing external raw materials. All of this gives China a war potential that far surpasses that of Russia.
[What China has learned on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine is not only the use of drones and other combat experience]
If China completes its internal adjustment ahead of schedule and shortens the time for entering wartime mode in the future by combining the military with the people, the window for action of the US side will become smaller and smaller, and there may even be a situation where China has already solved the problem and completely ended the conflict as soon as the US sanctions have just begun.
Finally, to sum up, what the US military is worried about now is actually what China is doing, that is, by observing the performance of all parties in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, combined with its own actual situation, to promote the implementation of comprehensive military reform, and finally build a more complete and targeted crisis response system.
Moreover, even if Brown's hint arouses further attention from the US political circles about China's military reform, there is no good way for the US side to really stop China's actions. In the Asia-Pacific direction, it will only become more difficult for the United States to reproduce the scene in Ukraine.