China military buildup leaves US ‘increasingly vulnerable’: Pentagon report
The assessment also says that in 2024 China "tested essential components" of Taiwan invasion options, "including through exercises to strike sea and land targets, strike U.S. forces in the Pacific, and block access to key ports."
By Lee Ferran on December 24, 2025 11:38 am
ATLANTA — The recent push by China to build up and modernize its military means the American homeland is “increasingly vulnerable” to a myriad of threats that “directly threaten Americans’ security,” according to a new Pentagon report.
Over the course of 100 pages, the report, an annual assessment mandated by Congress and published Tuesday [PDF], makes the case that while the Trump administration is pursuing friendlier relations with Beijing, the Asian giant has expanded its capabilities in several key strategic domains, including the cyber, space and nuclear disciplines.
The People’s Liberation Army is also well on its way to meeting leader Xi Jinping’s directive that it be in a position to achieve a “strategic decisive victory” over Taiwan by 2027 if so ordered. “In other words, China expects to be able to fight and win a war on Taiwan by the end of 2027,” the report states bluntly.
The assessment says that in 2024 China “tested essential components” of Taiwan invasion options, “including through exercises to strike sea and land targets, strike U.S. forces in the Pacific, and block access to key ports.”
Some other key findings:
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/12/china-military-buildup-leaves-us-increasingly-vulnerable-pentagon-report/
