China Must Raise Its Military Strength Fast — America Is Pushing

Recently, America has been busy making a new deployment around the Western Pacific to form a deterrent line — consisting of Hawaii, Guam and Okinawa, with aircraft carriers around the islands — showing off its military strength around the Korean Peninsula. America’s new deployment has changed the previous military situations in the Western Pacific, bringing significant impact to the military overview in East Asia and posing a serious threat to China, in particular.

The Chinese navy now is facing immense danger on its outer seaway. America is planning to deploy three battle groups of aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific. If such a deployment becomes permanent, not only would it generate a great threat to East China, but also, more seriously, all the activities conducted by the Chinese navy in the Western Pacific would be under America’s close surveillance, falling entirely into America’s hands.
　　
At the same time, the military pressure on Northeast China would also be greatly increased. With America backing it up, South Korea would press North Korea harder. Against such a backdrop, North Korea — always making its military a priority — will not possibly ignore the provocations from its southern neighbor. The turmoil in the Korean Peninsula won’t be settled in the near future. And, of course, with the messy situation in the Northeast, China must make some effort with its military regarding preventative deployments around its Northeast region.

America will probably do its best to support Japan and South Korea to increase their military capabilities. America’s strategic aim is to maintain its global hegemony and make the most of its allies to serve its own interests. Because increasing their military capabilities is the common aspiration for Japan and South Korea, it may be possible that both countries would achieve a great leap forward in terms of military strength with the efforts from within and help from without. And the rise in the military power of Japan and South Korea would increase the military fever around Southeast Asia, of which a major manifestation is the bulk importation of advanced weapons and military equipment in order to reach a higher military capability.

It’s becoming ever more obvious that America is shifting its military focus eastward. America has been treating Europe as the center of its global military deployment. With the security situation in Europe stable, America is speeding up the readjustment of its military focus. Recently, three aircraft carriers were sent to the Western Pacific. What’s more, all the military activities last year in the Asia-Pacific region, such as military drills, have already proven that America is shifting its global strategic military focus to the Asia-Pacific region.

America has really raised a big fuss in the Western Pacific with its new military activities, and most of its influence has been targeted directly at China. Facing America’s military boom in the Western Pacific, how would China maintain the peace and stability in the region? And how would China keep the military powers in the region balanced and checked? In fact, it’s impossible for China to carry out an all-around arms race with America, like the USSR. Instead, in the face of America’s military threat, the only thing China could do is to lift its strategic deterrent force by raising its core fighting capability to keep a balanced Western Pacific. And the increase of the core fighting capability, of course, aims at the strengthening of the military as a whole. Without a military leap forward, China couldn’t get rid of the pressure coming from America. So it is objectively necessary, as well as a result of the foreign pressure, for China to seek a military leap forward. Then, how could China achieve that? I think the key is the breakthrough in military technologies. It is predictable that China would increase its efforts regarding military technologies in order to gain some major breakthroughs. On one hand, such breakthroughs can help the Western Pacific regain its military balance; on the other hand, because China insists on developing its military and civil industries at the same time, a breakthrough in the military sector may also help in the development of technologies for civil use.

The military balance in the Western Pacific has been broken, and America has caused all the trouble. As long as America stops making a mess out of the region, it is highly likely that the military fever will cool down soon.