If the United States deceives China, it will eventually lift a stone and shoot itself in the foot
Resignation
United States is both the most developed country in the world and the most capable of deception. In those years, under the guise of "Star Wars", the Soviet Union was deceived into investing a large amount in the arms competition program, so that the Soviet Union had more than 11,000 nuclear weapons and huge military expenditures, which eventually led to the Soviet economy not being able to drag the war pact bloc's chariot and finally fell on the road of competing for hegemony with United States.
In January 2011, when United States Secretary of Defense Gates visited China, China's J-20 stealth fighter made its first flight, breaking Gates's previous statement that China could not develop a fifth-generation fighter before 2020, giving Gates a resounding slap in the face. When the United States developed the F35, China's J-31 had also completed its first flight. China became a country with two fifth-generation aircraft at the same time as United States.
Before China's J-31 (35) entered service, the United States was intensively developing a sixth-generation aircraft. Some time ago, China's sixth-generation aircraft was about to come out. Recently, it was reported in United States that there is no sixth-generation aircraft at all United States Could this be another trap that United States has set for China?
In fact, the United States is good at strategic deception with its adversaries. The key is that the United States now has to deal with the ancestors who invented the 36 schemes. Even if United States develops sixth-generation aircraft, it does not matter, because China will not compete with United States for hegemony like the Soviet Union in the past. No matter how strong the US military is, China only sticks to its defensive policy, and the United States' deception strategy is like a fist on cotton.
Since the beginning of this year, the United States has repeatedly forced China to make the number of nuclear weapons transparent, but China has ignored it, although the Western media have repeatedly speculated about the number of China's nuclear weapons, they cannot judge the number of China's nuclear weapons, and even United States still wants to talk about nuclear disarmament with China and try to grasp the details of China's nuclear weapons. China's use of nuclear weapons adheres to the principle that "China will never be the first to use nuclear weapons and will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries"
Of course, although China adheres to the three principles of the use of nuclear weapons, it is not an unrestrained unbridled recklessness of the other side, and China has also proposed that China can use nuclear weapons to counter the enemy's attack under three special circumstances, without being subject to the "principle of no first use and non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states." These are: first, in the event that China's nuclear weapons or nuclear facilities are attacked by various conventional weapons of the enemy. Second, in the event of an attack by an enemy's nuclear or conventional weapons on Chinese aircraft carriers and strategic missile submarines. Third, in the event of an enemy attack on China's own important facilities, water conservancy projects, or residential areas.
Recently, United States suddenly announced the number of nuclear weapons: as of September 2023, United States has 3,748 deployed and stockpiled nuclear warheads. The United States actually wants to use this method to provoke China to produce more nuclear warheads, trying to drag down China with armaments as well. China has always adhered to the tone of "sufficient" on the issue of nuclear weapons, and has no regard for an arms race with United States.
United States' military spending remains high, and it is even more difficult to ride a tiger. Although United States's military spending is already so high, it is still stretched thin to maintain United States's hegemony, especially the warships are very old, and China does not engage in an arms race with United States, United States the motivation to increase military spending is insufficient, and it is difficult to maintain the need for hegemony.
As a matter of fact, whether or not United States engage in sixth-generation aircraft and whether or not to abandon the development of sixth-generation aircraft is itself just a bluff, and it may still be used to strategically deceive China and the world. If the United States wants to deceive China as it did when it strategically deceived the Soviet Union, it will eventually shoot itself in the foot.