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May 13, 2021 | The Dispatch
We Should Not Underestimate China’s Military Ambitions
Suggestions that the People’s Republic is a ‘paper dragon’ are ill-informed and misleading.
Bradley Bowman

CMPP Senior Director

Americans, according to recent polls and surveys, increasingly view China as a leading threat to the United States. This hardening of American public opinion regarding China has been matched by a growing bipartisan consensus in Washington that Beijing represents our most formidable international security challenge.

Waking up to the threat from China is a good thing. But Americans may still not fully appreciate how Beijing has used its growing economy to undertake the largest military modernization effort in the history of the People’s Republic of China. And as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has become more capable, Beijing has acted more aggressively against the United States and its allies and partners. This belligerent behavior has been manifest in the South China Sea, on the border with India, and in the seas and skies surrounding Taiwan and Japan’s Senkaku Islands.

But not so fast, say some American commentators. They argue such assessments regarding Chinese power are exaggerated, and instead assert that Beijing is actually a “paper dragon”—a threat hardly worth worrying about.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/05/13/we-should-not-underestimate-chinas-military-ambitions/

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Re: We Should Not Underestimate China’s Military Ambitions
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2021, 03:34:12 pm »
The Chi-coms greatest weapon is good, old-fashioned Communist subterfuge, corruption, and terror.  They will use the wealth and the technology we've given them against us, our interests, and our allies.

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