{"id":193601,"date":"2019-08-22T05:32:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T05:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193601"},"modified":"2019-08-24T05:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T05:37:24","slug":"china-could-overwhelm-the-us-military-in-asia-within-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193601","title":{"rendered":"China could overwhelm the US military in Asia within HOURS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Charlotte Dean \u2013 Daily Mail Aug 21, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The U.S. military has lost its standing in the Western Pacific, a new report says<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>It claims the Chinese army would be able to overcome the U.S. army within hours<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>China&#8217;s arsenal of missiles poses a threat to almost all American bases\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>This has left the U.S. military unable to operate\u00a0freely in the western Pacific\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Chinese military could force the U.S. army out of Asia within hours as a missile threat challenges the nation&#8217;s ability to operate freely, a think tank has warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Following ten years of &#8216;delayed and unpredictable funding&#8217; the U.S. military lost its standing in the Western Pacific, giving <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\"><strong>China<\/strong><\/a> a firmer holding ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45519\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CHINESE-DF-21-MISSILES-660x475.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45519\" class=\"wp-image-45519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CHINESE-DF-21-MISSILES-660x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CHINESE-DF-21-MISSILES-660x475.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CHINESE-DF-21-MISSILES-660x475-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">America&#8217;s military bases in Asia would not be the only US military assets under threat. Pictured: China&#8217;s DF-21 missile, reportedly capable of sinking US aircraft carriers. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Sydney-based body has suggested that ever advancing China now has the edge over the U.S. and would be able to overcome them within hours of conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The University of Sydney&#8217;s United States Studies Centre&#8217;s new report <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ussc.edu.au\/analysis\/averting-crisis-american-strategy-military-spending-and-collective-defence-in-the-indo-pacific\"><strong>Averting Crisis<\/strong><\/a>, said: &#8216;China&#8217;s growing arsenal of accurate long-range missiles poses a major threat to almost all American, allied and partner bases, airstrips, ports and military installations in the Western Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;As these facilities could be rendered useless by precision strikes in the opening hours of a conflict, the PLA missile threat challenges America&#8217;s ability to freely operate its forces from forward locations throughout the region.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to avoid this crisis America would need to undergo several expensive changes including advancing their military assets and enhancing their posture arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The reports call for targeted funding in the north of the country as a way to combat China&#8217;s military expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After Australia were warned its northern borders are exposed to attack amid an increasingly aggressive Chinese military presence in the Pacific, the country has been warned to prepare for &#8216;high-end&#8217; conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Australian Strategic Policy Institute and the United States Studies Centre both issued assessments that a shortage of personnel and equipment in the Northern Territory is an urgent concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The American ally has been warned by the report to &#8216;increase stockpiles, create sovereign capabilities\u00a0in the storage and production of precision munitions, fuel and other material needed&#8217; for an attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The two countries are currently at odds over a number of issues, including a ban on Huawei Technologies Co. from bidding for 5G contracts from the Australian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7370761\/China-overwhelm-military-Asia-HOURS.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say China\u2019s growing arsenal of long-range missiles poses a major threat to American bases in the region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,78,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-china","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193604,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193601\/revisions\/193604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}