On parade in Beijing, the Dongfeng-17 is a road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile that mounts the DF-ZF Hypersonic Glide Vehicle
Jack Newman – Mail Online March 8, 2021
- General Xu Qilian said the world’s biggest military needs modernising for war
- The Thucydides Trap refers to the likelihood of war between two global powers
- Relations are tense between the US and China after Donald Trump and Covid-19
China’s top general has called for increased military spending to prepare for a war with the United States.
General Xu Qilian, who is second in command of the country’s armed forces after President Xi, said China needs to ready itself for the ‘Thucydides Trap’.
The term refers to the inevitability of war when a new global power displaces an existing one.
Xu said, according to the South China Morning Post: ‘In the face of the Thucydides Trap and border problems, the military must speed up increasing its capacity.
‘[We] must make breakthroughs in combat methods and ability, and lay a sound foundation for military modernisation.’
Xu is one of the 25 members of the Communist Party’s inner circle and wants to increase spending on what is already the world’s biggest military.
He believes China will soon overtake the US as an economic power, with its GDP more than 70 per cent that of its rival, he said.
Xu made the comments on Friday in a discussion at the annual gathering of China’s National People’s Congress.
The Thucydides Trap is rarely openly discussed by high-ranking officials in China.
President Xi said in 2015 while on a visit to Seattle: ‘There is no such thing as the so-called Thucydides Trap.
‘But should major countries time and again make the mistake of strategic miscalculation, they might create such traps for themselves.’
Xu’s comments come amid concern in China about its relationship with the US under President Joe Biden.
Biden has said Beijing is Washington’s ‘most serious competitor’, and his administration has indicated it will broadly continue the tough approach taken by Donald Trump.
China for decades has been considered a growing rival to the US, and its own leaders have designed elaborate strategies to carve out influence in the developing world.
Leaders have focused on expanding Chinese territorial claims, exerting more control of special territories like Hong Kong and continuing its gains as a global military and economic power.
During the Trump administration, the US launched a series of actions against China, including a trade war, sanctions against Chinese officials and firms perceived to be security threats and challenging Beijing’s South China Sea territorial claims.
Xi congratulated Biden on his election in a message in November, even though Biden had called him a ‘thug’ during the campaign and vowed to lead an international effort to ‘pressure, isolate and punish China.’
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Biden not to cross China’s ‘red lines’ such as the disputed territory of Taiwan, where US warships have been patrolling in recent weeks.
Defence ministry spokesman Wu Qia said some of the 6.8 per cent of the increase to the military budget will be spent on trying to catch up with the US to ‘fight and win’ on the modern battlefield.
The rest of the money will be spent on training, weapons and salaries for China’s two million soldiers.
Russia, China and Iran must spend a lot of money on weapons not to attack the US but to deter the US. And if the US isn’t deterred (and sometimes I think they’re a bit too scared to start anything deliberately but are okay with starting something carelessly), then those weapons will be used to repel the US.
Materialists versus Satanists–if they fight it does not matter who wins.
Many have drawn comparisons with the build up to WWI. Instead of the declining British Empire we have the declining American Empire. Instead of Germany and its then rising productivity with the projected “Berlin to Baghdad” railway, we have China’s productivity and the “Belt and Road” initiative.
The USA has fought China before, in the Korean War. The contrived nature of the hostilities which saw American commanders unable to prosecute their strategic advantage, also saw the use of “nukes” negated because “Korea was too hilly and they wouldn’t work etc” Of course the whole “conventional” build up begs the question of “nukes” once more, and whether they are psy weapons rather than actual. The Korean War could be regarded as a device to legitimase the United Nations, under which banner the USA then fought. (Russia could have vetoed this war but didn’t attend the UN security council meetings on some pretext.)
Perhaps some limited war may be fought to the detriment of ordinary folk. Ordinary folk are too ignorant to realise that above putative nation states, the world is already linked by the Rothschild/Rockefeller axis and their puppet heads of state..
The Israel/Russia Jewish connection would benefit from war. Eurasia is the “World Continent”. The USA is already a pile of dry tinder ready to burn to the ground thanks to its dual nationality “leadership”. Europe has been all but destroyed by third world immigration; there’s no working/middle class solidarity to push back against the state because of multiculturalism.
Meanwhile, gay American sailors party and mince at a barracks get together, as one deep throats a Chinese cucumber, as somewhere a woman (of unknown gender) crashes an aircraft carrier into a container ship because she was too busy doing her nails to pay attention to the instruments in the bridge.
Greatest nation on earth!
modern ultra sound, no more those phallus stile rockets.
wonder were they got patented inventions !
RUSSIA-CHINA or USA-ISRAEL-CHINA or
USA-jews-RUSSIA-CHINA ? ? ?
The Covid plandemic was called another psyop from the beginning. It was coordinated with the Chinese who kicked it off.
The Chinese who have cooperated so much are not spending more on their military, will now require much more massive US military spending. Yet both nations are controlled by the same money power.
US experts who are truthers are very careful about fingering their own nation. Such is their fear. Even outspoken Dr. Lee Merrit who is outspoken about the virus being a bioweapon of the US pulls her punches, saying that she does not know if it was deliberately released or it just escaped. She tends to think it was but says it cannot be proved. Her idea of the standard of proof is way beyond anything you find in our courts for any deliberate tort or even a crime. The fact is that Dr. Covid like all people living in the US is living in fear of being knocked off by the authorities of that nation. It is a US made bioweapon and if Dr. Merrit could also consider all of the pre-2019 planning evidence and the globalist motivations she would have to agree that the powers which control the US have used the US made Covid 19 virus, that they dropped it in many locations, and that most likely the US military intelligence through our intelligence is coordinating the entire show, controlling what our governments and the media do and say, while suppressing free speech exposing the entire psyop wherever they can.
Dr Lee Merrit Covid Vaccine Bioweapon – The establishment is at war against us
https://www.brighteon.com/e74c823f-0ecb-4c01-a45c-3662301010b2
Can anyone blame China? The Jewnited States is entirely out of control and being run (into the ground) by a criminal cartel, slaves to the satanic whims of maniacal Jews, Calling the Jew-S-A a dumpster fire is giving actual dumpster fires a bad name at this point.
Who knows what grossly illegal and shockingly immoral stunt the Jewnited States will pull next as it lurches about, flailing wildly, as it careens toward an ugly demise due to lack of constitutional accountability, a pathologically lying media, a massively corrupt government gone rogue, completely bankrupt morally, legally, medically, ethically, and most certainly fiscally as the parasitic vipers of the Jew “central banking”cartel has bled the country dry. All it wold take is the restoration of the Constitution and the destruction of central banking to set things straight, but there are far too many cowards and criminals in high places for that to happen. So, no, I can’t blame China, nor any other country, for wanting to protect herself.