China wants to revise the world order and change the situation that has developed since the Second World War. For this purpose, the country is expanding its military capabilities. This was announced on November 8 by the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milli.
Milli noted that China is investing in the navy, hypersonic missiles and cyber technologies to become a leading nation along with the United States and Russia.
"We are entering a more geostrategically complex world in which technology is developing at a speed previously unseen, so it is much more complicated and potentially less stable," Milli is quoted by the Wall Street Journal newspaper.
Milli noted that Washington must not stop modernizing weapons in order to keep up with Beijing.
Earlier, on November 17, the deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General John Hyten, said that the Chinese authorities are building up their military potential to strike first.
On October 28, Hyten said that China is able to bypass Russia and America in military power in the coming years, and the pace of development of hypersonic weapons in China is much higher than in Russia and the United States.
Vasily Kashin, Deputy Director of the HSE Center for Integrated European and International Studies, commented on this statement in an interview with Izvestia. According to him, in the future, China will inevitably become the main rival of the United States in all components. As the expert noted, China is actively developing new weapons systems. For example, they have already launched the production of fifth-generation J-20 fighters: according to experts, up to 150 such machines have been produced.
Later, on November 3, the US Department of Defense released a report stating that the army of the People's Republic of China, presumably, already has a nuclear triad. The document also notes that Beijing is creating the infrastructure necessary for a large expansion of nuclear forces. According to the Pentagon, China may receive 700 warheads by 2027 and 1,000 by 2030.
