America: Second Rate Military Power?

 I have been watching with increasing alarm the rise of China's military power. 

From buying arms from Russia, to making copies of Russian arms, to now surpassing Russia and taking on the might of America, given China's record of use of indiscriminate force, it is very concerning.

From not being a threat a decade ago, China has now become the de facto adversary to American forces. They are the military power America needs to beat.

China now have the weapons like stealth aircraft and hypersonic missiles. Now given the quality of Chinese industry, they may not be up to the standards of American arms, but China have the ability to project force in numbers and depth, such that they would very quickly overwhelm Western Forces if it ever came to it.

But the rise of China was entirely predictable given that the whole of the Western World is giving them funds by way of moving their manufacturing bases there. 

What do you thing would happen when massive amounts of global funds are being diverted to a totalitarian regime? And who thought it was a good idea? 

The elites of the world, that's who. The people that make billions from global trade and handily have a nuclear bunker under their mansion. Talk about hedging your bets.

The rest of us are no better, suckered into low price consumer goods bought by low wages so that the elites that employ us shuffling the meagre money round western retail-based economies can keep a semblance of normality, structure and control.

The real money is going East. Either to Russia and the Middle east for energy, or the Far East for consumer goods.

The West is being drained monetarily and you can see that the established institutions, the elite are being propped up by fake money. Money that is made out of thin air and printed. Quite apt considering the "Climate Crisis" is just another way to make money for the Elites out of thin air. 

The West is quite literally a house of sand. Fake money propping up fake industries based on fake science.

Whereas the East is receiving hard currency and building it's economy and military power on firm foundations. 

Despite the West's ingenuity, the East and especially China have spent their way to military equality, because they can afford to. The West's reliance on technology as "Force Multipliers" can only go so far. Eventually the reduction in force projection weakens the amount of force. An adversary that can overwhelm a Force Multiplier only has to overwhelm a smaller number of targets to achieve their objective. We are now at that point with regard to America and China. China have sufficient numbers with sufficient quality to pose a real threat to American forces if it came to a shooting war. 

The only arm of the military where China really lags behind is with submarines. But again with China's espionage efforts and their ability to spend hard currency, it will be less than a decade before they equal American submarines in both capability and quality. 

Trump and Steve Bannon had it partially right: America are not in a war with China, but in a race. Just as with the Space race with Russia, America is in a military an economic race with China. America and the West in General need to understand that they need to claw back some of that currency flowing East. You can't keep printing money. Eventually the house of sand will crumbles and China will become the dominant power.

Of course the elites don't care, they're insulated from the vagaries of the world. They'll just continue to buy influence with whoever is at the top of the tree power-wise.

Don't get me started about the infiltration of Elite Educational and Research institutions by the Chinese, buying information.  They know exactly who to influence and how in order to obtain information useful to their military and industrial complex.

Not only that, but the immense industrial espionage effort by the Chinese to illicitly obtain industrial secrets is something that needs to be stamped out as well. Not just the infiltration of internet-connected computers that is reported on a regular basis, but also the human intelligence. Buying information from workers only to happy to top up their relatively meagre earnings but there's the question of Chinese nationals being employed in high-tech companies after studying at American universities, learning as much as they can about the company (business secrets, employee names, etc) before leaving America to report their findings back to their true leaders in China.

China, like Russia put a lot of emphasis on HUMINT (Human Intelligence) whereas the West rely more on technology. Technology that our adversaries most likely know about and know how to counter thanks to their HUMINT.

This is not an existential threat. This is a very real threat to life in the West. The deterioration of society in the West is not a natural phenomenon. This is a deliberate strategy to undermine the security of Western Ideology and society, whilst simultaneously stealing military and industrial secrets in order to gain the upper hand. 

And strangely our Political Leaders don't seem to care. But then they are part of the Elite that are insulated from the consequences created by their reluctance to act in the interest of their various Western countries.