The U.S. destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113, left) and the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt (CVN 71, right) cruise in the western Pacific Ocean Jan. 12, as the U.S.-China confrontational posture continues in 2021. (U.S. Navy)
In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has been sending military aircraft and warships to the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea to show off its force, and has deployed a large number of armed vessels and built artificial islands to establish military facilities in the disputed waters, in an effort to expand its control over the South China Sea. However, some Chinese Communist Party generals have revealed that in terms of military gap, the CCP is lagging behind the US and Russia and is left behind by more than one street.
Recently, Chinese military aircraft have been entering Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone almost every day to harass it, and the CCP’s Guangdong Maritime Bureau even conducted daily live-fire drills in the South China Sea and waters near the Nanpeng Islands from April 15 to 20.
The destroyer USS Mastin and the destroyer USS McCain, also recently crossed the Taiwan Strait. 2 U.S. Navy SHIELD ships are in Taiwan waters, one east and one west, in time to respond to the rising situation in the Taiwan Strait, and there should be U.S. submarines underwater. The U.S. Roosevelt carrier strike group recently crossed the Taiwan Strait three times to deter the Chinese Communist Party.
In this regard, some media compared the gap between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States and Russia’s military power. Taiwan media Sanli News said on April 17, a Chinese military column from the army, navy and air force to consider the war power, said frankly that in the “naval war power” and the quality of air force fighters, the Chinese Communist Party lags behind the United States and Russia by a large margin.
Sohu.com’s military column published an article in March, saying that the Chinese Communist Party is committed to improving its national defense capabilities and gradually becoming a military power. But Chinese military commentator Major General Luo Yuan has said frankly that although the Chinese Communist Party’s military power has increased in recent years, there is still a large gap between it and the United States and Russia.
Luo Yuan took the naval, land and air forces of the U.S. and Russia as an example, saying that the gap between the Chinese Communist Party’s land forces and those of the U.S. and Russia is not too big because of their early development. But in the navy is far behind the U.S. and Russia. Although the Chinese side has developed a variety of ships, but whether the number of ships or naval combat proficiency, there is a large gap between the United States and Russia.
Luo Yuan said that in the air force, Chinese fighter jets also have lethality problems, even by the U.S. and Russia “more than a street” distance.
Pictured are U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Wasp multirole fighters and EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft parked on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). (CATHERINE LAI/AFP via Getty Images)
In addition to Luo Yuan, Fang Bing, a professor at the National Defense University of China, dismissed the host’s comment in an interview with Guangdong media last May that it was only a matter of time before the Chinese navy’s hard power surpassed that of the U.S. Navy. He said that was pure nonsense.
If you say the time is 100 years, 200 years, it may be a matter of time,” said Fang Bing.
For example, how many warships and ships does the United States have? How many warships and how many sailing ships does China have? How many nuclear submarines does the United States have and how many nuclear submarines do you have? Let’s not talk about this stock!
He stressed, “I repeatedly say that some of our media do not beat the chicken blood, do not beat the chicken blood, do not beat the chicken blood every day to their young people, there is no benefit, we are still stepping forward one step at a time.”
On July 24, 2019, the Communist Party of China (CPC) also admitted in its first White Paper on National Defense that it has not yet completed the task of mechanization, the level of information technology needs to be improved, and military security is at risk of being technologically stretched, and the gap with the world’s advanced military level is still large.
On April 9, the U.S. Air Force released pictures of four F-22 stealth fighter jets training near Mount Fuji, Japan. (U.S. Air Force)
Current commentator Hong Wei published an article in September 2019, saying that the U.S. military power is the first in the world, and it is still far away for other countries to surpass it.
The U.S. is unmatched in terms of its annual military budget. In addition to nuclear weapons, the U.S. has always been absolutely superior in conventional armaments. The U.S. military has the most powerful air force in the world, with 13,362 aircraft.
The United States also has the world’s most powerful navy, with 425 ships and 10 aircraft carriers cruising around the world.
The U.S. Army is not a priority for development, but it also has 5,884 tanks and 38,822 armored vehicles. The U.S. military industry is immensely powerful, as proven in World War II.
Hong Wei said that the Chinese Communist Party knows the gap with the United States is too big, but still wants to be at least the “second in the world”, but unfortunately, for the time being, it can not sit, according to the international well-known military research institute assessment, Russia is sitting in the “second” position.
Although Russia is under Western sanctions, the Russian military still has a number of nuclear weapons that is unmatched by the Chinese Communist Party. In terms of conventional armaments, the Russian air force has 3,914 aircraft; the army has a staggering 20,300 tanks, 27,400 armored vehicles, and a large number of artillery and rocket artillery; and the navy has 352 ships.
Although the Chinese Communist Party is also desperately trying to develop key weapons, internationally renowned military research institutes estimate that its military technology and industry are relatively backward, and its conventional armaments still fall short of Russia’s in terms of quantity and even more so in terms of quality.
Not only is there a gap in military equipment, but the CCP’s military is so corrupt that it raises questions about whether it can still fight a war. In a 2018 article in the National Interest magazine, the Chinese Communist Party’s military has “five fatal wounds”.
First, the quality of soldiers is poor, and they may not be able to operate their armaments under the pressure of war; second, the army is a “party army” and may not be able to react quickly in the face of rapidly changing warfare; third, it lacks the ability to work together and is severely undertrained; fourth, it lacks innovative military technology, which will lead to a major defeat on the battlefield; and fifth, it lacks actual combat experience. Once the United States and China go to war, the Chinese Communist Party will definitely lose.
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