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In January of this yr, Normal Anthony Cotton of US Strategic Command wrote a memo stating that American lawmakers wanted be forewarned in regards to the present variety of ICBM launchers in China. Why? As a result of the quantity had surpassed that of the US.
We nonetheless have extra ICBMs, a lot of which are very old and the staff are being fired from working at, however China has more “land-based mounted and cellular ICBM launchers.” Granted, a whole lot of these silos China has are empty, however China did simply approve a $225 billion military budget, a whole lot of which is predicted to go towards nuclear weaponry. It’s presumed that throughout the subsequent ten years, these silos can be crammed.
This comes proper about the identical time that Xi Jinping has been upping the rhetoric in opposition to the US, saying that America is engaged on a coverage of “containment, encirclement, and suppression,” sounding similar to German discussions for extra “Lebensraum” within the Thirties.
Whereas it’s vital to concentrate to the banking crisis, Russia, Ukraine, and the blatant disregard for freedom and justice in our personal authorities, don’t take your eye off China.
Not simply nukes
As they do with any world battle, China has been learning the Ukrainian battle extensively. They’ve revealed a number of research over the course of the previous yr the usage of weaponry and techniques all through Ukraine and have come to a number of conclusions because of this.
For starters, they now need to develop the potential to shoot down or destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, as they state these have carried out excellently in securing Ukrainian navy communications and that it’s seemingly that America will depend on Starlink satellites extra sooner or later.
[Starlink is a constellation of satellites that are in low-earth orbit and used to give people internet access.]
Tied in with Starlink is China’s statement that Ukraine has received the knowledge conflict for the time being. That is largely a results of Starlink’s granting Ukrainians web entry regardless of Russian assaults in opposition to Ukrainian communications infrastructure that in any other case would have shut the web down. This entry has not solely allowed for movies and pictures helpful to the Ukrainian trigger to quickly flow into world wide, however Starlink has additionally performed important roles in permitting the Ukrainian navy to speak amongst itself and for giving information that has helped the Ukrainians survive quite a few missile assaults.
One of many ways in which China appears to be combatting Starlink is to create its own similar system. It’s extremely seemingly that when that is created, it will likely be integrated with the Belt and Street Initiative to grant web entry – albeit extremely censored web entry – to nations world wide.
They’re additionally bettering their drone weaponry, stating that drones are “the door kickers” of the longer term. This isn’t stunning, as the usage of drones all through Ukraine has reached a fever pitch, with each side utilizing them extensively. To return to this conclusion concerning drones isn’t an act of navy brilliance, however it doesn’t make the navy significance of drones any much less. China has already developed scary potential with their drones, having released a video last year of autonomous drone swarms monitoring a person as he walked by way of a jungle.
It might not be troublesome for China so as to add facial recognition to all these drones, utilizing info scraped from social media both. This know-how is already on the market – it’s only a matter of time earlier than anyone places all of it collectively. In fact, that’s if it hasn’t been executed already.
Overseas affect
It’s not all weaponry, nevertheless.
China’s Belt and Street Initiative has been giving some huge cash by way of infrastructure to nations internationally occasion as a way to construct higher relationships between China and these recipient nations. Between 2000-2017, China gave Russia $125 billion, Venezuela acquired $91 billion, Brazil $41 billion, Pakistan $34 billion, and Iran $17 billion.
There’s a very robust Russia-China relationship that’s been constructed, and plenty of of those different relationships are with nations which are suspiciously near the US.
Specifically, China has been sending researchers all through the Arctic, conducting “dual-use analysis with intelligence or navy functions within the Arctic.” Each Iceland and Greenland are nations that presently have Chinese language researchers current, with Greenland’s Chinese language station being located on the west facet of the nation. China has no Arctic land inside its boundaries.
What’s China getting ready for?
The rhetoric of China in opposition to each Taiwan and the US has solely been rising more and more agitated over the previous yr, and we’re seeing increasingly more warning indicators that China has one thing up its sleeves. The pawns are being moved into place throughout the board.
What do you suppose? Are there different components of Chinese language navy power and affect which are rising of late that we didn’t point out above? What do you concentrate on the Arctic analysis stations? Tell us your ideas within the remark part under.
About Aden
Aden Tate is a daily contributor to TheOrganicPrepper.com and TheFrugalite.com. Aden runs a micro-farm the place he raises dairy goats, a pig, honeybees, meat chickens, laying chickens, tomatoes, mushrooms, and greens. Aden has 4 revealed books, What School Should Have Taught You, The Faithful Prepper, An Arm and a Leg, The Prepper’s Guide to Post-Disaster Communications, and Zombie Choices. Yow will discover his podcast The Final American on Preppers’ Broadcasting Network.
