China's High-Tech Military Threat

Commentary Magazine ^ | 4/1/2012 | Bill Gertz

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President Barack Obama said during the visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in February that “we welcome China’s peaceful rise [and] we believe that a strong and prosperous China is one that can help bring stability and prosperity to the region and the world.” Few presidents have made statements so stunningly disingenuous as this. For as he was speaking, Obama was presiding over a shift in military doctrine whose central tenet is that China is, and will be, the main military threat to the United States for at least the next generation.

Weeks earlier, in November 2011, the Pentagon conducted an unusual rollout of a new military unit called the Air Sea Battle Office. Three senior officers briefed reporters on what until then had been a secret program known as the Air Sea Battle Concept. The concept calls for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps to integrate forces and other capabilities to defeat what the Pentagon has labeled “anti-access and area denial weapons”—high-technology arms that can prevent or deter the United States military from operating in certain areas.

What made the briefing unusual was the vague and confusing language the officials used to describe the unit’s intentions. When pressed on the question of whom the initiative was targeting, one official responded, “The concept isn’t about a specific actor; it’s about countering anti-access, area-denial capabilities.” While the Department of Defense relies on its ability to dodge sensitive matters in public, this was by its own standards an impressive display of ambiguity.

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China's J-20 Stealth Fighter

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After Russia gets all they want from us via the Flex-Pres, I'm sure evrything will be just fine.

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The J-20 is using 20 year old technology. In a match up with a F-22, the F-22 would come out victorious.Its a reversed engineered F-117 that was shot down over Serbia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12266973
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2011/01/legacy-of-vega-31.html

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“In the mid-2000s, the United States discovered that China was working on a program to develop anti-satellite weapons involving precision-guided missiles capable of hitting satellites in orbit and ground-based lasers that could blind or disrupt satellites in space. (Satellite warfare had been discussed in Chinese military writings as early as 1997, but evidence of actual programs did not surface until around 2006.) Still, many benign-China military analysts sought to play down China’s technical prowess. But they were embarrassed in January 2007, when China blasted a weather satellite into orbit with a ground-based anti-satellite missile.”

(Note: I believe the phrase “into orbit” in the above paragraph is a typo and should read “in orbit;” indicating the “weather satellite” was a target hit by the “ground-based anti-satellite missile.”)
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A long but very interesting and sobering article. Thx ...it was well worth the read! Looks like Newt's concerns about the U.S. losing the race for space were not as far fetched as some would have us believe.

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http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/asat.htm

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You basically have no clue at all.

J-20 and F-117 is a world apart.

Even the stealth coating of F-117 is useless for J-20 since the later is optimized for super-sonic whilst the coating of F-117 will simply corrupt at super-sonic due to wave shock and heat.

Bury your head in the sand will make J-20 go away.

Actually F-22 is 40 year old tech and basically following the design concept of Russian’s 1960 era MiG-25.

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I am not going to argue with you for something I did not say. You did not bother to read the links.

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Bother somone else.

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You basically have no clue at all.

J-20 and F-117 is a world apart.

Even the stealth coating of F-117 is useless for J-20 since the later is optimized for super-sonic whilst the coating of F-117 will simply corrupt at super-sonic due to wave shock and heat.

Bury your head in the sand will make J-20 go away.

Actually F-22 is 40 year old tech and basically following the design concept of Russian’s 1960 era MiG-25.

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I think the author of the article you linked is just as amatuerish as you thats why I like to point the obvious out.

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All I can say Bill Gertz is a very good author and has several best selling books under his belt. Secondly, If this a way of getting me angry its not going to work. Work on somebody else.

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BTTT!

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Semi-relevant re: PLAAF obtaining "secrets" for J-20 development.

B-2 stealth bomber engineer jailed for 32 years after selling military secrets to China

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Bill Gertz is an excellent reporter.

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Stealing the technology Americans won’t steal.

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Someone needs to keep a list of these soft on China policy people and watch for them in the Romney camp. If Rice is back it will be bad news.