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U.S. media: Communist China is a “paper dragon,” the United States should be more confident in the future
The Atlantic Monthly (The Atlantic) published a commentary on April 4, saying that the Chinese Communist Party is a “paper dragon” and calling on U.S. policymakers to be more confident about the future and to have more faith in the unlimited potential of trade, markets and free people.
The Free Times quoted the report as saying that David Frum, the senior media figure who wrote the commentary, drew his views from Tufts University political scientist Michael Beckley’s 2018 book “Unbeatable: Why the United States Will Remain the World’s The book “Unbeatable: Why the United States Will Remain the World’s Only Superpower” confirms that China’s power is grossly exaggerated.
Flamm’s review points out that China’s economic, financial, technological, and military power is grossly exaggerated by crude and inaccurate statistics, while the U.S. advantage has been underestimated, and that it is important not to focus on comparative gross domestic product (GDP) figures. .
Flamm mentioned that the U.S. government should be more confident in facing the Chinese Communist Party, and that the U.S. is still ahead of China in military, education, and technology development. Militarily, Chinese pilots spend less time training than American pilots, and the CCP military spends 20 to 30 percent of its time learning communist ideology; educationally, many Chinese college students consider themselves to be “diploma mills” where students spend a quarter of their time learning ideology and politics, and cannot browse Google In education, many Chinese college students consider themselves “diploma mills,” where students spend a quarter of their time studying ideology and politics and are unable to access academic journal repositories such as Google Scholar.
Inflation is coming…soaring livelihood goods, raw material costs passed on to consumers
The U.S. economy is growing rapidly after being hit hard by the epidemic, but the warning signs of inflation are also flashing desperately. Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics) data show that the prices of all household goods, natural gas, electricity, etc., have been rising in the past year, the rate of increase is the most in three years; among them, the average price of coffee rose 8%, bread rose 11%, gasoline rose 22%, the era of inflation has arrived.
Data show that food prices have risen 3.5 percent and energy prices 13 percent over the past year; at the same time, the prices of various commodity raw materials (e.g., steel, lumber and cotton) have been soaring; many companies say the higher costs of these raw materials will be passed on to consumers.
China’s navy has a fatal weakness, if the United States to start a war first card throat
Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House on April 16, and both sides reaffirmed the U.S.-Japan alliance and their joint efforts to address the Chinese Communist challenge.
Despite the massive military build-up, the Chinese Communist Party has some weaknesses that are difficult to overcome.
“Tom Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submarine warfare officer and part-time senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, told the Nikkei Asian Review, “When you look at Chinese submarine bases, there’s a fair amount of shallow water around each one [and] their submarines have to go through that. submarines have to go through those shallow waters to get to the deeper waters.” Submarines are only nearly impossible to detect if they enter deep water.
In contrast, Japanese and Taiwanese submarines have direct access to deep waters, a “luxury” that the Chinese Communist Party could not even ask for. A quick look at Google Earth shows that China’s coast is surrounded by light blue, meaning it is surrounded by shallow waters, while the eastern coasts of Taiwan and Japan are dark blue in color.
If the Chinese Communist Navy wants to enter the high seas from offshore, it will inevitably have to pass through different choke points and straits between the first island chain, Shugart said. “This will provide opportunities for its adversaries – the U.S. and our allies’ submarine forces. They can be monitored more closely and attempted to intercept them if we get involved in a conflict, or if a conflict is about to break out.”
Jeffrey Hornung, a political scientist at Rand Corp, a U.S. think tank, said controlling the maritime chokepoint could be one of Japan’s most important contributions in a potential conflict with the Chinese Communist Party.
“Japan’s role should be to control the choke points,” Hornung said, “and if you look at the Nancy Islands, there are so many choke points that, combined with the submarine capabilities and defensive capabilities of the (Japanese) Maritime Self-Defense Force, Japan could completely block them, which would force the Chinese (Communist Navy) to either go all the way around to Taiwan or go directly into the battle space in the East China Sea, and the U.S. and Japan could plan for this and take control of the battle situation.
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