Do you think China's military will be a threat to United States?

Question

China is currently planning to build a aircraft carrier and buying Su-33 Naval version of Sukhoi-27s from Russian. The Chinese military has released the production of J-10 fighter bombers reportedly reverse engineered from a US F-16 plane given by Pakistan and Israeli Lavi fighter plane developed from US funding. China is building nuclear submarines with missiles capable of reaching the US Pacific coast. well, Chinese military also has the Russian Sizzler missiles bought along with their diesel Kilo submarines. These Russian Sizzler Missiles spiral down at high attitude and even US Aegis destroyers cannot defend against it. The Sizzler missile can take out aircraft carriers and China also have several Sovremmeny destroyers equipped with Russian Sunburn missiles. How will the US respond to a potential military conflict against China over Taiwan? Remember the US has canceled the F-22 Raptor fighter jets but recently tested their JSF F-35 fighters.

Answer 1

Most defenitely a threat. However, man has dominated man to his own injury. China is a sleeping giant. I believe a time will come when they will flex their muscle, but a higher power will have to intervene in order to put an end to the mess around the world. There is no peaceful solution that can come from human governments

Answer 2

The Chinese might have a stealth fighter by 2020, but they don't seem to be upgrading their military in any major way right now. A lot of theri gear still comes from Russia. A lot of the Russian gear does not work as advertised. A captured BMP that was sent to the U.S. was deemed unsafe to test because the transmission could catch fire and burn up the crew, the jet the F-22 was made to defeat crashed and there are no replacements, the latest Russian attack helicopter crashed and replacements were not made, and many of those big missles don't work (it's estimated that 1/3 of the Russian nuclear missles don't work and the Sizzler missle has supposedly never made a sucessful flight).

The F-22 is being made, but since nobody has a major airforce, the U.S. military has cut back.

The Soviets and Chinese were notorious of making stuff up, which the Americans were happly taking in to fuel the military industrial complex. Here some other important things about the Russians. Their GNP is equal to Mexicos, their sailor rations is one can of beans a day, they have a hard time paying the electric bill for their military bases (and those bases go dark if they don't pay), their last cruiser wasn't finished because of the lack of funds (and was sold to the Chinese unfinished), many of the Russian aircraft lack even radar dectectors so they don't know if somebody has locked on to their aircraft and many of theri warships don't have any computers on board so all the calculations have to be done by hand. The Chinese spend even less on their military, some of which is hold over equipment (including planes) from WWII.

Answer 3

In a nutshell ...

(1) Gear does not make a military. Saddam also went on a purchasing spree in his heyday. It didn't get him far with the Iranians. It didnt get him far with the Americans either.

(2) The PLA has more than a few issues with maintaining political loyalty and corruption in the ranks. It's also not battle-proven in the least. It has modernized rapidly, but once again, gear does not equate combat power.

(3) People who have no military experience tend to fixate on gear and high-ticket items as end-all indicators of military strength. Such is not the case.

(4) For all you can know about the PLA's capability in public, you still don't have a good grasp of the PLA's warfighting capability. And you certainly don't have any idea of what the American military has up its sleeves.

(5) And FYI, the F-22 program wasn't cancelled. Raptors are in service. The F-35 Lightning II is about to come off the assembly lines as well.

Answer 4

Well, a conventional war with the US would quickly spiral into a theater nuclear war if it happens next week. The Chinese would have no choice, because they couldn't now match our aviation and smart technology assets right now. The important thing for us would be to KEEP AWAY from their land based forces!!! But, if we fight from the air and water, they don't stand a chance and I think they know that and would quickly resort to the nuke option. I would even see them doing a preemptive nuclear first strike against our carrier groups and Forward Bases in Japan and Korea. What will happen in 20 years? Who knows. I think the US is teetering dangerously close to the threshold of reliance upon hi-tech, hi-dollar weaponry. I would be very interested in how it would all play out. Would the Chinese stop at the line, or would they cross over it? I wonder if they would play it the way they played Korea, according to the old "Art of War" textbook.

Answer 5

If we talk about the Direct War Conditions, then China's Military is not a threat to US, but after II World war US is being considered the biggest military Power in the World. They think that in future they will be but it is not true because many Country, as you are talking about China, is booming out as a Strong Economy, Strong Military. Recent attacks on Afganistan and Iraq show that US is trying to establish its Base stations in Middle East so that it can use the Oil Resources and these centres are also having strategic importance.
From these centers Us can keep close eyes on the movements of China, India etc. So if only US is saying that China's Military is a threat for it then it is not true because it is considering it as a threat but they are just increasing there Stratigic Value so they also can be considered as a growing Country. In recent Era Military is also a Creteria of development.

So China is not presenting any threat to US, Its only US's Music that is listened by US itself.

Good luck

Answer 6

Not in the near future. People seem to let popular media diminish their perception of the U.S. military because of the "Iraq situation." But consider this: Iraq has become a security issue, not a prototypical "war-zone." Troops over there now are trying to do a policeman's job and that's not what they are trained for. But remeber that it took less than a month to crush Iraq (twice). Also consider that neither the USAF or Navy is involved in major combat activities now. So with two branches out, and two doing a job that they (theoretically) aren't meant to do, in addition to the IT warfare that America is capable of, PLUS the armed civilians and militias, it's highly unlikely that China will have that capacity to seriously threaten America anytime soon.

Answer 7

IN the Near future; 30 years, CHina has only interest in direct conflict with local battles. You can't guess after that though. The only forseable batle is Taiwan. Its hard to say what the US would do, since officially US consider Taiwan Chinese property. I would believe that US would gracefully find a reason to leave, since US can't stop CHinese missile attack even at their current technology. US knows CHina will never give up Taiwan.

Answer 8

Even on the fast track, China will never overpower the US, nor will Russia. The US will keep it's nuclear arsenals as a deterrant for any nation to know that an attack on the US can only result in self destruction.

Answer 9

Will be???

Don't you mean ARE?

The whole cold war was about Communism...That ideology is still firmly in place in China...

And set aside the "latest and greatest" in technology for a moment...
America played a rather large part in helping win WW2..
And one of the biggest factors was our industrial might...The German Tiger 2 tank was the best afield...In battle the US Sherman was no match for it...One to one the tiger2 would destroy the Sherman, but we had the ability to put 50 Shermans in the field for every Tiger2.......We won many a battles because the Shermans would simply outnumber the Panzers...

China has the capability to out MASS PRODUCE us...Now they are sharpening the sword by updating the technology....Not to mention the largest army PERIOD.

Answer is yes..

And if you think of them as some gentle giant ....Just ask a Tibetan

Answer 10

Yes, they are not the longest surviving civilisation in the history of the world for nothing and I am sure they will be well prepared for conflict with the U.S given the aggressive nature of American politics and recent administrations.

Not that I think America will have the balls for a conflict with the Chinese anyway. Bullies tend to run away from a real fight.