From the Himalayas to the South China Sea, China is aggressively undermining its territorial claims, raising the possibility of additional deadly conflicts.
In the same week that Chinese and Indian soldiers joined the deadly war, one of the Chinese submarines was traveling in the water near Japan, when the plane and ships clashed. Chinese fighter jets and at least one bomber roam almost every day in Taiwan's regional airspace.
As the world is distracted by the coronavirus pandemic, China's army has invaded many of its neighboring territories throughout the spring and now, in the summer, may expand its military practices spread across Asia and Washington.
China's military presence reflects growing confidence and ability, but it is also a state of confrontation, particularly with the US, the fate of Hong Kong, and other issues that are central to China's sovereignty and national pride. Belief.
China claims that all of its recent operations are defensive, but each increases the risk of military conflict. It is reported that this happened on the night of June 15, when Chinese and Indian soldiers fought in their disputed border in the Himalayas.
It has been a bloody conflict on that frontier since 1967. According to Chinese analysts, Indian news reports and US intelligence reports, this has caused an unknown number of Chinese deaths in the country for the first time since the 1979 war with Vietnam.
Wu Shikun, president of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said at a conference in Beijing this week that a report on U.S. military operations in the region "appears to increase the chances of accidental firing."
China has long been forced to defend the territory and interests of the country, but now it is working with more military ammunition than ever.
"Its power is growing at a much higher rate than other regional powers," said Adam Nee, director of research at the China Policy Center in Canberra, Australia. "This has actually given Beijing more tools to pursue a more rigid and aggressive agenda."
Increased operational speed this year is the accelerated military modernization program that began in the 1990s and under China's ambitious and authoritarian leader Xi Jinping. He systematically purged the army's corrupt or insufficiently loyal officers and turned the People's Liberation Army from heavy land fighting to more active joint operations using air, navy and rapid cyber attacks.
In the wake of the epidemic, Mr. G has given more attention to the military. China's chief Li Keqiang announced last month that the military budget will increase by 6.6 percent this year to one-fourth of the $ 180 billion US defense budget, despite the global recession leading to a reduction in total government spending.
At the National People's Congress, Mr. Xi played a role in the military in Wuhan, where its outbreak began in China and warned that the epidemic poses challenges to national security. "The preparations for military conflict must be pushed forward, the actual military training should be simplified, and vast improvements to our military capability to conduct military operations," the country said.
It is widely believed that the Chinese military is far behind the US Armed Forces, but in some areas it is expanding its naval power and deploying anti-ship and anti-craft missiles.
By the end of last year, China was believed to have at least 335 warships, more than the United States, which is 285, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service in Washington last month.
China has now posed a major challenge to the US Navy's ability to gain and maintain combat control over the blue-water seas in the West Pacific - the US Navy since the end of the Cold War.
China has accelerated its military operations near Taiwan following the victory of self-styled island president Tsai Eng-wen in the January re-election by defeating a less hostile candidate for Beijing.
In April, one of China's two aircraft, along with five other warships, was attached to Taiwan's East Coast. Analysts said last week that the Chinese plane had been repeatedly searched in the airspace of Taiwan and that they were the island's rescue trials. China plans to conduct military maneuvers in August as it will visit the Prattas Islands in Taiwan, a group of atolls known as Dolsa Island in Mandarin.
China has expanded its claims in the South China Sea, creating two new administrative districts to control the Paracel and Spratly chains and other neighboring islands.
In April, the Chinese Coast Guard hit and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat. That same month, a Chinese government research vessel, according to its claims, intercepted an underwater oil ship and prompted the US and Australia to send four warships to monitor the situation. The Philippines has filed a formal diplomatic complaint after the Chinese warship showed off its target radar at the Philippine Navy.
In the East China Sea, patrolling by a Chinese submarine last week was first discovered after 2018, when Japanese warships pushed a nuclear attack submarine to the surface. This follows rising tensions over the administration of the Senkaku Islands in Japan, known as the Chinese Dioue Islands.
"When China feels like it is being challenged in these other sovereign conflicts in this era, it responds with a very difficult line," said M. Said Taylor Fravel, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies and military officer.
Considering the steady build-up of China's navy and air force, China has said that in the last 10 or 15 years, the maritime sector has never been able to assert itself. “This has enabled China to suppress its claims in the East and South China Sea more than ever before,” he said.
It also increased the sky patrolling in the area. Pacific Air Force Commander General Charles Pr. Brown Jr., will soon take over as Air Force Chief. , But doing so almost every day now.
The new missiles were fitted in a demonstration by China's military parade last October to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
For more recent activity, China's military has not been used. Skirmish with Indians is a separate war with stones and clubs, not with guns, so this is not a test of Chinese military readiness. This raises questions about training and discipline.
It is impossible and impossible to independently verify the details of the incident, but according to some accounts in the Indian news media, the inexperienced replacements from other parts of Tibet followed the usual protocols to prevent clashes, but the situation was out of control. Not. .
China did not disclose its casualties in a report by China Today, India Today, that Indian troops had manipulated the bodies of 16 soldiers. An American intelligence official in Washington suggested that China was deliberately hiding its risks, and that India should have 20 to 30.
An independent military analyst, Song Jongping, said the number was lower than Indian claims but would not be released "to arouse serious sentiments in India."
While tensions with India are significant, they are not a Chinese military priority: they consider US aggression in China's neighborhoods.
The United States has also increased its military operations in the region. It dispatched American warships across the South China Sea and increased support for Taiwan and its military issues, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with China's top diplomat Yang Zichi in Hawaii earlier this month.
China blamed the US for tensions in the region, accusing the US military of interfering in territorial claims.
Huu Feng, executive director of the China Center for Cooperative Studies, which contributed to the reports on US military operations, warned that the US presidential campaign is likely to escalate into conflict.
"The United States unloads China with two rhythms of the South China Sea and Taiwan issues," he said.
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