This worthy and public-spirited column seldom dives into the thickets of military hardware, which it regards as excessively technical. However, the arms race between China and Washington is of enough gravity that its more exotic armaments may be of interest. Herewith, the truly dangerous weaponry of the contending sides.
C-919 A Chinese narrow-body intended to compete with the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737. Designed and built in China by Comarc. Not quite up to Boeing’s standards, not as fuel-efficient, uses a lot of Western-manufactured parts. (Think of it as a 1966 Toyota with wings, nothing to worry about.) Comarc has 570 orders for the 919, almost entirely in China. That’s 570 orders nobody else will get. The domestic market will provide the oomph to improve. By 2024 China is projected to be the world’s largest market for airliners.
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Not to worry. They can’t innovate.
US Nuclear Weapon Upgrade Program: “CBO estimates that nuclear forces will cost $348 billion between FY 2015 and FY 2024. Three independent estimates put the expected total cost over the next 30 years at as much as $1 trillion.”
Artist’s conception of planned $100 Billion Chinese-Made City in Malaysia. Near Singapore “Scares the Hell Out of Everybody.” Will have 700,000 people, almost entirely Chinese. Pundits assert that in twenty years China will own Malaysia.
The Gerald R. Ford, $12.8 billion + $4.7 billion R&D (estimated). The Navy wants ten.
Sunway TaihuLight, World’s most powerful supercomputer, a Chinese design built with Chinese silicon. China leads the planet in supercomputers, both in power and numbers.
The B21. Yes, there is a seat for Robin.
| The B21 is a new thermonuclear bomber for the Air Force. “The head of the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command… envisions some 175–200 bombers in service.[8] Initial operating capability is expected to be reached by 2030. ”at a cost of $550 million each (2010 dollars). |
It was rumored that Armour Star would be the lead contractor for the B21, but this was cancelled as being unduly candid. The B21 will funnel huge amounts of money to Northrop-Grumman and, in the event of a thermonuclear war, will arrive at the bubbling remains of targets several hours after the Navy’s D5 Trident II missiles get there. The aircraft relies on the assumption that, in thirteen years when it enters service, anti-stealth technology will not have reached the point of making it even more obviously useless.
This marvelous revelation from Wikipedia: “In July 2016, the U.S. Air Force stated they would not release the estimated cost for the B-21 contract with Northrop Grumman. The Air Force argued releasing the cost would reveal too much information about the classified project to potential adversaries.” As, for example, taxpayers
One accepts yuan. The other doesn’t. Can you guess?
Columbia, the Navy’s upcoming new nukey-boomer, formerly ORP, Ohio Replacement Program. “The total lifecycle cost of the entire class is estimated at $347 billion.”: Wikipedia
Chinese freight cars in Europe. More all the time.
A Few News Blips
China is the greatest trading partner of the US, Germany, Japan, India, and Australia, among others. Russia’s biggest trading partner is Germany, followed by China.
“China is already South East Asia’s largest trading partner and is now one of the largest investors in the region.”
Argentina’s top trading partners: Brazil, China. The top trading partner of South America is China.
“Trump’s proposed increase in US military spending is almost as big as Russia’s entire defense budget.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”: Sun Tzu, Chinese
As mentioned here before I have been an expat in Asia for over 30 years and been an avid China watcher. Their economic influence over all countries in the continent has grown at an increasing pace for all of that time. An important factor is that most other Asian countries had an immigrant Chinese group, already well rooted in the economy, dominant in most ASEAN countries. All SE Asian countries have paid tribute at various times to China for at least 1,800 years.
Another lever is the Chinese communities living outside Asia and their level of interaction. As long ago as 1999 I was dating a Malaysian Chinese lady, senior partner in a big 4 accountancy firm. Her family clan of over 4,000 had already set up a website with state of the art security for the clan to post business opportunities and requirements.
China will have a major economic crisis but business will go on.
China is such a success story they have to keep shit secretly classfied. Wait, what? Poor demographics with the debt to match, bubbles everywhere, pollution the likes of which have no equal, little clean water, mobile execution vans, live organ harvesting, nearly a ‘caste’ system supporting a permanent governing class, unknown economics/industry numbers hiding God knows what, shitty neighbors, dependence on totally broke customers like the U.S., criminal bankers – who have now openly admitted bank runs are inevitable unless they are allowed to sell more junk ponzi wmp’s…..jeez, what’s not to like?
The West has problems too! It is the same dick just using the other hand.
Bravo Fred!
China is branching out to different industries and improving the quality of their products/services.
USA and the WEST are primarily interested in learning more about transgender and transsexual equality.
The USS Ford and the ENTIRE US Navy Blue water fleet should be considered obsolete based on the improvements of anti-ship missiles from the 1980s and 1990s. The newest missiles out of Russia/India/China will DESTROY all that floats at Mach 3+ speeds from 200+ miles away.
NATO relies heavily on satellite communication for their operations.
Russian/Chinese anti-satellite missiles will remove the satellites from the theater.
Who wins a war between the ((NWO)) nations and the resistance to a “Unipolar world?
I’m going to take a wild guess and say it is not the side of the high heel wearing US troops!
Army to review decision to have male cadets wear high heels
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/04/22/army-to-review-decision-to-have-male-cadets-wear-high-heels/?utm_term=.5b2f51592852
Brilliant article. An obvious theme but completely ignored by our “media”. Every dime we “invest” (now THERE’S a prime-time bullshit verb!) in “defense” (haha), is a dime and a half flushed down the shit hole.
Yes, China has its share of smoke and mirrors, but the infrastructure there can rapidly recover and produce more REAL WEALTH. The U.S.?? the only productive use of all that effort is irremediable global destruction! Oh boy, me so proud.
This reminds me of the 1970’s and 1980’s, when the USSR developed a huge and intimidating military while its people were hungry and clothed in rags, and US had a large but slightly less-large military, but (with some recessions) also had a booming economy and its people well off.
Except the US is on the dumb side this time.