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The Indian media "Eurasian Times" quoted US media reports that US Republican congressmen pointed out in a letter to the secretary of the Air Force and Navy on May 8 that China's military strength is developing too fast, and it now has enough advanced weapons to suppress the US air defense system, which can destroy 90% of the fighters in the Pacific region on the ground.
There are also professionals in the field of international relations on social media who pointed out that the United States is rapidly losing its advantages in the military, science and technology, public opinion and financial fields, especially the lack of global confidence in the United States in the financial field and China's rapid rise, the United States is facing an unprecedented crisis!
The United States is worried that 90% of the fighters will be destroyed by China: is it useful to strengthen the machine fort?
The letter to the Secretary of the Air Force and Navy was signed by prominent figures such as House Select Committee Chairman on China, Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, warning that the US military bases in the Pacific are under threat from China, and if they are not dealt with, in the event of a war between China and the United States in the future, 90% of the warplanes will be destroyed on the ground!
China's rapidly developing advanced weapons have ignored U.S. air defenses
The letter pointed out that the air defense systems of US military bases in the Pacific region are already outdated, and they are simply unable to defend against China's rapidly developing weapons systems, and there are only two ways at present, one is to upgrade the air defense system, and the other is to strengthen ground facilities to deal with the threat of China's hypersonic missiles.
The air defense systems of the US military bases in the Pacific region mainly include the Patriot, THAAD and the Standard series, which are responsible for air defense, terminal anti-missile and mid-course anti-missile, of which the Patriot (land-based vehicle-mounted) and THAAD (mobile) are deployed in the base, and the standard is the ship-based mid-course anti-missile system, which needs to be deployed by Ticonderoga-class cruisers, and the performance of these three air defense systems is quite good:
The Patriot air defense missile has a long reputation, the interception of the Scud in the Gulf War is known to the global public (the interception rate is very low), this inertial guidance + active radar guided missile has good performance, the launch height is 50 kilometers, the maximum interception range is 180 kilometers, the maximum speed is Mach 5, the interception rate of fighters is relatively high, the early Patriot is the proximity fuse (PAC-2 type), the latest PAC-3 has been upgraded to KKV (kinetic interceptor missile), there is a part of the terminal interceptor missile function.
THAAD is also famous, but the domestic public should be South Korea's deployment of THAAD is widely known, this missile is 150 kilometers high, the maximum interception range is 200 kilometers, the maximum speed is Mach 8.2, indium antimonide imaging infrared seeker, mainly at the end of the interception of ballistic missiles, but generally can only intercept tactical missiles and the like, because the maximum speed of Mach 8.2 can only intercept missiles with a terminal speed of about Mach 5, which is more suitable for South Korea to intercept North Korea's ballistic missiles.
Standard 3 is even more famous, because this is the first practically deployed sea-based midcourse interception system, this missile is relatively large, with a maximum altitude of 1050 kilometers, a combat range of up to 1200 kilometers, a maximum speed of Mach 13.1, and the use of GPS/INS/semi-active radar guidance/passive infrared homing (KW), which can intercept any ballistic missile target below Mach 10.
Due to its mid-course interception, the speed of Mach 10 is almost as good as most ballistic missiles, and the performance indicators of this missile are really good, but the performance is not very good when intercepting live ammunition, after all, ballistic missile interception has always been a problem.
If China and the United States have a showdown someday in the future, the priority choice will definitely be to use long-range strike weapons to destroy the targets of the hundreds of US military bases in the Pacific region on the ground, and the most priority targets will definitely be radars, anti-aircraft missile positions, and hangars for fighters and long-range bombers, because these combat planes can seize air supremacy or carry long-range strike cruise missiles or stand-off strike weapons.
If you want to launch a surprise attack on these bases, the first priority must be hypersonic missiles or ballistic missiles that can be terminal maneuvering and ballistic missiles, especially hypersonic missiles, at present, there is no effective means in the world to intercept this kind of interception under hypersonic maneuvering conditions, including China itself, originally the United States can also deploy hypersonic missiles to threaten China equally, but I don't know why, China in the public deployment (2019) 5 years after the United States still failed to break through the hypersonic missile, This kind of weapon, which has an advantage over the attacker, the US military cannot achieve more advantages even if it is deployed.
After the end of the first wave of strikes, cruise missiles will definitely follow, such subsonic ultra-long-range strike weapons have a high efficiency ratio, but due to the low speed, the possibility of being intercepted is relatively large, but after the first wave of strikes, radar and air defense missiles are destroyed in large quantities, and the success rate of cruise missiles should be relatively high, such as oil depots, ammunition depots and logistics facilities will also be destroyed.
In the letter dated May 8, members of the House of Representatives said that they would strengthen the construction of aircraft forts to defend against the rapid rise of China's missile threat, but judging from the speed of China's hypersonic missiles and ballistic missiles exceeding more than a dozen Mach at the end, ground aircraft forts should not be able to guarantee safety, and they must be caves, I don't know how many bases in the US military have such conditions.
Four major advantages are lost: Financial hegemony will also be lost
Congressmakers are worried that a large number of base fighters in the Pacific region have been destroyed, but in fact the US military is not only gradually losing its advantage in the Pacific region, but also in the overall military advantage is rapidly losing, a few days ago, there are well-known professionals related to international issues on the domestic Weibo pointed out that the US military has maintained absolute superiority in the military, science and technology, public opinion, and finance The four pillars have been declining, at least there are signs of loosening, compared with China's superiority in hypersonic missiles, The risk of the United States being wiped out in these areas is likely to be even greater.
Military: China has risen in full swing
There are several landmark events in the military field where the decline of the US military is fully manifested, one is the complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan "without warning"; The other is that Ukraine, supported by the United States and the entire West, is about to be completely defeated by Russia, while NATO has been slow to completely refuse to end; Another is that Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip, and the US military "escorted" Israel in the Red Sea, which caused retaliation from the Houthis in Yemen.
If this had been 30 years ago, the United States would have destroyed the Houthis, let alone firing missiles at US warships, even if it found a reason, it would have beaten the Houthis! It must be pointed out that Iran and Israel retaliate against each other, and after Israel was attacked by Iranian missiles and drones, the United States actually forced Israel not to retaliate, and in the end Israel had to make a hasty decision, which surprised the world. Now that the strength of the U.S. military is declining, there is no choice, the U.S. military must look at China in the Western Pacific, and it can't deal with the Houthis and Iran, so it can only play with the mud, for fear of playing really exposed.
The above is the prelude to the overall decline of the US military, and the other aspect is the comprehensive rise of China, the first is the speed of China's warship construction, the tonnage of warships launched in China in 2023 is the total tonnage of the Canadian Navy, the US military can't build a few warships a year, and even have to queue up for maintenance, and is looking for shipbuilding bases around the world for maintenance, which the United States can no longer compare with China.
The second is that China's equipment is becoming more and more advanced, such as the Air Force Y-20, J-20 and carrier-based aircraft J-35, the Navy's 055 drive and the Fujian ship of recent sea trials, especially the electromagnetic catapult and electromagnetic blocking device carried by the Fujian ship, which is the only aircraft carrier equipped with an electromagnetic catapult except for the USS Ford, and the stability is much better than that of the Ford.
In the western Pacific, the strength of the US Navy is already inferior to China, and the amount of accumulation changes to the qualitative change in the future is within 5-6 years, and it is impossible for the US military not to panic, but this is no way, the navy is the accumulation of steel, and strength determines everything.
Tech: China is breaking through the blockade
The United States sanctions on China's high-tech originated from Huawei's breakthrough in the field of chips, China's shortcomings are not design, but the design into a chip object, we are too far behind in the field of lithography machines, the entire industrial chain of chips is only a slight advantage in design, from Trump to Biden, the United States' wishful thinking is that chip exports are locked, lithography machines are locked, and China's chip industry chain collapses.
HOWEVER, WHAT THE UNITED STATES DID NOT EXPECT WAS THAT HUAWEI DID NOT COLLAPSE AFTER THREE YEARS OF BLOCKADE, BUT INSTEAD MADE THE MATE 60 PRO, A 5G MOBILE PHONE, AND RECENTLY RELEASED PURA 70, AND A SERIES OF NEW MACHINES WILL BE RELEASED IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR, WHICH MEANS THAT THE U.S. BLOCKADE HAS MADE IT LONELY, AND HUAWEI'S SALES HAVE RETURNED TO THE PEAK, AND IT SEEMS THAT THIS WAVE IS GOING TO BE UNSTOPPABLE.
What's more, Huawei is not only in the CPU field, but also in the GPU field, as well as the operating system and intelligent driving has the world's advanced level, although the current chip and GPU and high-end still have some gaps, but in time, Huawei will definitely rise to become the world's top chip manufacturer.
Another thing that must be explained is that China has become an important memory chip provider, because the technical requirements for memory chips are not high, domestic production has been fully cabbage, and European and American storage suppliers are completely unable to compete with China; The next step is the large-scale production of low-end chips, the era of fully occupying the market has arrived, and the next step is high-end chips, which are expected to have eyebrows in the next 10 years.
In the field of public opinion and propaganda, a hole is being torn open
Hundreds of teachers and students have been sent to "prison" by the US police, and demonstrations have also broken out in many European countries to demand that Israel stop its genocide and withdraw from the Gaza Strip! Why are many countries in Europe and the United States quite dissatisfied with Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip this year?
The reason is very simple, because TikTok has torn a hole in the Western media controlled by Jews, making the atrocities of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip exposed, and the American people can understand in the "siege" blockade that Israel is no different from the "Nazis", Blinken admitted that because he could not control the news of TikTok, Israel's public opinion war failed, so the United States must package and sell TikTok to American companies to facilitate public opinion control.
What is even more ridiculous is that the United States also passed the "Anti-Semitism Consciousness Act", which overturned the basic view that the Jews identified in the Bible collectively murdered Jesus, and even the Bible can be changed.
Financial field: high blood pressure in the United States is still taking vasopressor drugs
Everyone knows that China and the United States are waging a financial war, and the key is that the United States will raise interest rates more than a dozen times in 2022, trying to siphon out China's liquidity, so that China's bulk high-quality assets will plummet, so that the United States can buy and control it at a low price, but it has been a year since the interest rate hike was raised to 5.5% in mid-2023, and China has not moved, and the United States is a little unable to hold on!
Because after the interest rate hike reaches 5.5%, so many US Treasury bonds do not need to pay the principal for the time being, but they have to repay the interest, and when short-term Treasury bonds are replaced by long-term Treasury bonds at the end of this year, the United States will have to pay nearly $2 trillion in interest every year, which is almost more than 1/3 of US fiscal revenue and 2.5 times military spending.
This pressure is too great, but if the United States cuts interest rates without harvesting now, it will be counter-harvested by China, because the dollar that has lost the temptation of interest will flock to China to invest and help China's construction again. Therefore, the "hungry" crazy United States has become hungry, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and even Australia have become harvesting objects, but these small snacks are completely not enough for Americans to eat.
The United States is the most afraid of this harvesting mechanism in the world, the dollar increases the issuance of diluted wealth, the dollar tide harvests wealth with interest rate cuts and interest rate hikes, the United States has the advantage of the global currency dollar, the people of the world do not know, but there is no way, but countries have awakened, have begun to trade with their own currencies, and even the RMB has become a hard currency for trade in the small circle of China, Russia, Iran and some countries in the Middle East, of course, China also has the RMB trade circle in the Belt and Road Initiative, and there is also a currency swap RMB circle, is eating away at the field of the dollar.
But the problem is that the US dollar, the global trade currency, is really entrenched, such as the SWIFT system, although there is no technical content, but the SWIFT network has spread to tens of thousands of financial institutions in 206 countries and regions around the world, this huge system can not find a replacement for a while, although the RMB settlement has begun, but it is still too early to replace SWIFT.
On the one hand, the US dollar credit valuation is about to collapse, on the other hand, the alternative currency and settlement system can not be completely replaced, of course, the two are not in conflict, for example, after the collapse of the US dollar, it will enter the era of multi-currency exchange, and there will definitely be 1-2 currencies to stand out in the future, and the RMB must be one of them.
Finance should be the only advantage of the United States, of course, the era of collapse is coming, the US military is also a very terrible force, the United States harvests the world, always finance plus military intervention, finance is to increase the issuance of US bonds, dollar tides and other tools to rob wealth, and the US military is responsible for messing up the local area to pull down asset prices, the methods are different but the results are not different. From this point of view, the United States can still live a good life, but if you want to live a comfortable life, you will no longer have it!