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A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.

Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

China has huge problems domestically. They still haven't climbed out of the hole they dug with their real estate scams.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

they also have massive corruption, which is the biggest problem the russians have.

the russian military was massively undertrained, underequipped, and underexperienced. all of their 'stats' were massively inflated due to the instiutional corruoption rampant form bottom to top that inflated everything.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Their demographic problem is even worse thanks to years of the one child policy.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Whatever problems they've got, they can't come close to ours. Our society is literally on the verge of collapse, and the entire world sees it. China is totally ready to take over the global hegemony.