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According to the current international situation, countless netizens in China are discussing that it is difficult to avoid a military conflict between China and the United States.
However, there is a high probability that the U.S. military will intervene through proxy wars.
For example, the Philippines and Japan, which have recently engaged in team-building with the United States in the South China Sea, or India, which is about to make a move, are all very likely.
So, in the event of a war, what means will the US military use against China?
What is surprising is that General Zhang Zhaozhong of the mainland has long predicted that the US military will act in four steps.
What are these actions, and how will China respond?
The first step is to block China's shipping routes
China is the world's largest industrial manufacturing country, so sufficient energy is the guarantee for the operation of industrial machinery.
However, we are not an energy-rich country compared to demand, and we have to import a large amount of industrial raw materials every year.
It can be said that this behemoth cannot lack the supply of external energy for a moment, otherwise it will not be able to continue to operate.
And industrial strength is the greatest support point for war capability.
The severance of China's shipping routes would mean that China's industrial production would be greatly damaged.
Looking at our sea routes, basically none of them can escape the blockade and destruction of the US military.
On the Southeast Asian route, the Strait of Malacca, which connects the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, is the throat of the mainland's energy resources, through which most of the oil passes.
The Philippines along its coast could jam this maritime lifeline, cutting off Asia's connection to Oceania, the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
As for the South Asia route, about two-thirds of the world's oil has to pass through this route, and the biggest hidden danger of the countries along the route is India, a quasi-ally of the United States.
These two routes were blocked, and the routes that were basically from the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea were also locked, and the Middle East and Africa could not be accessed.
Then there is the South Pacific route, where the "deputy sheriff" Australia is "in charge", and the passage is blocked to death.
Obviously, once the war starts, the US military will cut off China's shipping at the first time, and our huge industry will be reduced to decoration.
However, this has long been taken into account by the mainland.
Therefore, in recent years, we have been trying to promote the construction of maritime and land transportation networks.
Even if the sea is not accessible after the outbreak of war, we still have land transportation.
For example, the China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline, the China-Pakistan oil and gas pipeline, the Central Asia oil and gas pipeline, the most important and safe is the China-Russia oil and gas pipeline.
As a close partner back-to-back, Russian oil can be transported to Heilongjiang through the Far East crude oil pipeline.
Moreover, the whole journey only takes 1,000 kilometers, and the maximum annual oil transportation capacity can reach 30 million tons.
Natural gas, on the other hand, can take the Siberian Power Line, with an annual gas transmission capacity of at least 38 billion cubic meters.
In addition, there is an Altai line to the west, which can provide 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
So even if all shipping routes are blocked, China can rely on land pipelines to replenish energy.
Although the volume of land transportation is not as large as that of sea transportation, it is more than enough to cope with a quick local war.
The second step is to kidnap the people on the island of Taiwan
"If Taiwan is in danger, the United States will certainly take corresponding military action." This is the exact remark of many military experts.
After all, in peacetime, the United States always plays the "Taiwan card" to contain China, and in wartime, it will not miss the opportunity to do things.
Even if a conflict between China and the United States does not break out over the Taiwan issue, Taiwan is likely to be dragged down by the United States.
The "Taiwan independence forces" will certainly cooperate with the US and Japanese forces outside the country and strive for military and political superiority.
In particular, the abduction of people on the island restricts the movement of our troops.
Taiwan is a strategically important place and an important economic province, and the people of Taiwan are compatriots we want to protect, and turning Taiwan into ruins is not conducive to cross-strait integration and post-war reconstruction.
If the United States really does this, it will actually be quite tricky, and this is also a factor that the mainland has always tried not to use force to reunify.
If the PLA is a mouse, the military conflict between China and the United States is likely to turn into a war of attrition, which is the most passive situation.
On this point, just look at the situation in Russia.
Therefore, there is a high probability that China will pay attention to a fast, accurate and ruthless war.
In the face of the "Taiwan card," there are actually not many means that the PLA can take.
In addition to public opinion offensives and diplomatic means, it is necessary to knock on mountains and shock tigers and deter "Taiwan independence forces" by striking at other military targets.
Either they will make a quick decision from the outset, launch an action to encircle Taiwan, encircle but not fight, and completely blockade and isolate the island of Taiwan.
Looking back at the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996, due to various reasons, the mainland was unable to even cross the "middle line of the strait."
Now the PLA can easily cover Taiwan's so-called "territorial waters" and block the arrival of US troops from bases in Japan, Guam and the Philippines.
As long as this can be achieved, there will be no need to worry about the United States and the "Taiwan independence forces" colluding with foreign countries to kidnap the people on the island.
So. This requires the PLA's strong military as a guarantee.
The third step is to invest in high-tech weapons
If the US military is to face the PLA, it will certainly have to muster up 120,000 spirit and devote all kinds of technical means.
In recent years, most of the US weapons and equipment programs have been designed and deployed in response to the general environment of "anti-access and area denial" in the Asia-Pacific theater.
For example, the "flying torpedo" that can be launched from an altitude of 10,000 meters is specially designed to deal with an opponent with anti-access capabilities.
Hypersonic missiles are being developed on land, sea and air to mitigate and eliminate the risks posed by China's long-range missiles.
Once the research and development is successful, the United States is likely to deploy it in Japan, and it can be launched in as few minutes as long as 10 minutes to hit a military target in China.
A jetpack designed specifically for amphibious assaults, allowing fighters to operate without relying on existing vertical take-off and landing vehicles such as helicopters.
In this way, the effect of "sea guerrilla warfare" is achieved by surprise, fast in and out.
At the same time, there are modern warships with powerful air defense systems, surface-to-air missiles deployed on artificial islands and reefs, and so on.
Although the U.S. military is menacing, China is not the Middle East.
It is no longer possible for the United States to replicate the victories of the Gulf War and the Iraq War, let alone against China.
No matter what kind of missiles the United States uses and how advanced its information-based equipment is, with China's current military strength, the PLA's tight naval, land, and air air defense network is confident that it can achieve early warning and interception.
And don't look at the fact that the United States likes to talk harshly, it is to strike at China's nuclear arsenal at every turn.
In fact, the probability of a direct conflict between China and the United States is very small, let alone expanding the scale or even developing into a nuclear war.
However, judging from the international performance of the United States in recent years, it is not difficult for us to find that the more bravado it is, the more it shows that the US military is afraid of it.
Originally, there was no advantage in fighting at China's doorstep, and all US military bases in the Asia-Pacific region were within our firing range.
What's more, the U.S. military has long lost its naval strength that crushes everything.
Recently, the US Department of Defense has been using money to heap up the effectiveness of technological superiority and getting worse and worse, and there are constantly projects that are stillborn or postponed.
Some people even speculate that maybe when Japan comes up with hypersonic weapons, the United States will not have a shadow yet.
The fourth step is to mobilize the alliance system to attack China from the outside and split China from the inside
This trick has already been performed in Russia.
If a military conflict breaks out between China and the United States, it is very likely that the allies of the US military will jointly deal with China.
The nine US military bases in the Philippines will be the logistical support of the US military.
Australia will be the command center of the US military's rear.
Japan is the pioneer of the Asia-Pacific region.
South Korea was forced by the pressure from the north, and they did not dare or want to move in their hearts, but when the war situation developed, they really couldn't help it.
However, having North Korea on the peninsula can greatly reduce the pressure from Japan and South Korea.
To sum up, our focus is mainly on other directions.
When it comes to this, we should pay special attention to India's invasion of Tibet while the fire is taking advantage of the fire, and the probability of this incident happening is still very high.
In the 60s, China let India occupy southern Tibet, so this is also an opportunity to regain territory, or that premise, concentrate firepower to break through quickly, and not to fight a war of attrition.
In addition to the Taiwan issue, the Tibet and Xinjiang issues are also the West's long-term interference in China's sovereignty and splitting China.
One can already imagine the West's routine of using public opinion to report on China's "unjust" military actions after the start of the war, exaggerating China's "atrocities" against Xinjiang, Tibet and other places, and inciting internal separatist forces to call for independence.
However, with the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan in recent years, the decline of extremist groups, and the deepening of economic cooperation between China and Europe, Germany and France seeking strategic autonomy, this part is basically not a big problem.
Although there are many quasi-allies of the United States, each has its own agenda.
The greatest support for this system of allies is the authority of the United States.
However, with the decline of US hegemony, the forces of the alliance have long since drifted away from Germany.
From MacArthur to the present, America's industrial and national power have been degraded, and its ability to bluff has increased day by day.
Even the Korean War could end the U.S. military in disgrace, and now we don't have to be arrogant.
China only needs to steadily exert its strength as a military industrial power, ignore all military and political blackmail, and resolutely strike at the enemy when it provokes the door.