With a displacement of 40,000 tones, China’s first amphibious assault ship months recently entered service. A second amphibious assault ship is reportedly under construction.
Jack Dutton – NEWSWEEK June 25, 2021
A senior NATO officer has warned of China’s “shocking” military development and growing diplomatic clout, as the trans-Atlantic alliance toughens its stance on Beijing.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, who is stepping down on Friday after three years as chair of NATO’s military committee, told the Financial Times that the alliance’s 30 member states needed to do more to decide what China’s military ambitions might mean for them.
The FT interview, published on Friday, comes as tensions simmer between China and the West, against the backdrop of a Washington-Beijing trade war, increased military aggression and a string of cyberespionage attacks.
Peach said: “It is quite shocking how quickly China has built ships, how much China has modernised its air force, how much it has invested in cyber and other forms of information management, not least facial recognition.
“I think it’s very important to keep an eye on that. What do you do if you’re a leader in China with a modernised powerful large force? You deploy it, you move it around.”
At their summit in Brussels on June 14, NATO leaders accused China of going against the international order, claiming Beijing was spreading disinformation, expanding its nuclear arsenal and working with Russia.
A few days earlier, President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders had accused China of human rights abuses, citing the attacks on democracy in Hong Kong, the growing influence over Taiwan and Beijing’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslims.
A Chinese defense official hit back on Thursday, stating that his country’s growth “cannot be stopped by anyone.”
Peach, who was previously chief of the British military’s defence staff, also pointed to Beijing’s increasing diplomatic presence, including its “enormous” embassy in Brussels, home to NATO and the European Union.
“You have these large embassy footprints now with very large defence sections, often populated by general officers. And then you simply observe, as I would observe after nearly 50 years of service, what’s it all for?” he told the FT.
Peach said Beijing’s joint operations with Moscow had evolved from “relatively minor” to “major exercises and training opportunities” in recent years.
He rejected the idea that the two countries were heading toward a strategic partnership, however, citing the Arctic region, where he could not see “long-term harmony” between Beijing and Moscow.
Melting of Arctic ice will open up a northern sea route, speeding China’s maritime passage to Europe, increasing its trade activity and opening up access to untapped natural energy and mineral resources. Peach warned that this could increase competition with Russia.
Tensions have been growing in recent weeks between Washington and Beijing. On Wednesday, the Chinese military protested the presence of a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Taiwan Strait. It was the sixth time an American warship had sailed through the waters since Biden took office.
Earlier in June, China sent 28 warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone—its largest recent show of force in the region.
The Chinese aren’t fools – they know perfectly ell that the US and its British patsy are planning war.
Shocked because he never noticed that intellectual life in the West has been systematically fed to the dogs?
Why is it shocking? China has around 1.3 billion sheeple. Its navy is bigger than the US navy, but has lower tonnage. These ships are not second rate throw together, they are on a par with NATO ships. Amphibous landing ships makes sense if you want to take Taiwan back.
The US and UK have squandered a huge opportunity by making Russia and China enemies.
The City and Wall Street built our globalised world. They enriched themselves to the detriment of Western sheeple. The direct consequence of greed, is that China, Russia and many other countries are more wealthy, some have substantial populations and as time goes by, they see cooperation with China and Russia to be more beneficial that the City/Wall Street model which is based on debt, dodgy loans, corruption and arms sales. I am not saying that Rusisa and China are saints, but they are by far the better of the two systems.
The US and UK military industrial complexes must have reasons to justify the shocking waste of public money.
We must not forget that in the background, the dark forces are doing their level best to destabilise Russia, China and a whole host of countries that don’t like the Western imperialist script.
Some on here say this is all a game and that they’re all working together. While some of this is true, there are real consequences. WW2 was planned by the UK and US elites, but that doesn’t mean countless millions died, that the EU was a consequence of WW2, or that WW2 enabled the creation of the Jewish state. WW3 has started, but they haven’t started direct firing. Maybe in light of the risks, which are truly staggering, maybe they’ll bottle it. More likely they are embued with over self confidence.
I would think China’s development of military technology started in direct proportion to the US military threat against it, and continues in direct proportion to the decline of the US and its need to attack someone else for it.
Why is Nato still alive ?
It was designed after WW2 to contrast the Soviet Empire , and we know that the Soviets are no longer in control of Russia .
Since the fall of Soviet Russia , Nato had to reinvent itself , so , It expanded eastward toward former members of the soviet empire . Now Nato has continued the stupid policy of encircling Russia and it has become a useless organization intent at creating friction and military manouvres at the border with Russia . Once a upon a time Nato meant ” North Atlantic Treaty Organization ” . Now some members countries got nothing to do with the North Atlantic , The Nato shortsighted managers sent troops to Afghanistan and they ignore the fact that, every school kid knows , that country does not borders with the Atlantic Ocean .
The ignorant warmongers in charge of Nato would like the citizens of member states to accept more taxes so that the money could be wasted in armaments and military personnel . The times for useless wars sponsored by the criminal Cabal are over , The criminal Cabal has lost control of the Financial and Monetary system , the Swift system has now been replaced by the Quantum Financial system . Eventually we will have peace in the world and the Cabal will finish under the high velocity train called NESARA/ Gesara
Only this prayer will bring lasting peace:
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth.
Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war.
May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate.
Amen.”
FYI: exactly ten years before communism came to an end in Eastern Europe in 1989, Pope John-Paul II made the following invocation during an outdoor Mass in Warsaw (June 2nd 1979):
“And I cry ? I who am a Son of the land of Poland and who am also Pope John Paul II ? I cry from all the depths of this Millennium, I cry on the vigil of Pentecost:
Let your Spirit descend.
Let your Spirit descend,
and renew the face of the earth,
the face of this land.
Amen.”
The author. of this says “melting Ice will open up a northern sea route” No it won’t, because Arctic Ice is not melting Obviously Jack Dutton buys into the human caused climate change hoax. Either that or he has to keep the lie going in order to keep his high paying job.
Quand la Chine s’éveillera, le monde tremblera.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Nice looking amphibious assault ship; if they build about 300 more, the Chinese may be able to invade Puerto Rico. or the Isle of Man.
You have to love the stinking hypocrisy of Nato blowhards and the depraved degenerate Slow Joe Biden bloviating about China “spreading disinformation”, “human rights abuses”, and “attacks on democracy”…well, they ought to know since they shamelessly partake in the same activities.
@ CARL JONES
CORRECT ! and CIA;MI6 + Deep States Chemtrailing
since 25 years making undeclared war against american +
european population and now with covidvax fraud .
In geopolitics, balance-of-power is supposed to have given way to interdependence, but that is impossible; they still have to have equal and opposite powers to threaten the other one with., so we get all these factitious enmities.