China’s Military Building Up “In Every Warfare Area”
Chinese amphibious landing craft for Nov. 25, 2022 PLA Navy Photo
China’s threat to Taiwan is “something we need to take very seriously” Last week, the Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence announced that the island was mobilizing its entire society in order to stop a mainland takeover.
Taiwanese ask themselves these questions “what can we do to make China think twice” Rear Adm. Michael Studeman last week stated that it was unlikely that China would attempt to invade cross-straits. He said Beijing has increased its probes of Taiwan’s air defenses and sent more warships by the island since this summer to also warn off the United States and potential allies.
“The stakes have gone up,” He stated.
[embedded content]He noted Taiwan’s stepped-up security spendingHe said that he would extend the training time for draftees and train them in fighting and operating against invading forces. This was in response to an online event sponsored and hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
Studeman shared the lessons that the United States has learned in the fighting in Ukraine with Taiwanese officials, according to Studeman.
“China is the number one challenge to America,” Noting the pressure Japan is putting on Japan and the Philippines over their territorial claims.
What has been the most surprising thing to him across his more than 30 years of service has been Beijing’s ability to take basic technology from systems like anti-ship ballistic missiles and transform it rapidly into a hypersonic weapons system.
“We have to be really tuned into what they do.” He stated that it means harnessing “kinetic and non-kinetic ways of dealing” With these technological advancements based upon a variety of intelligence.
Rear Adm. Michael Studeman
Studeman stated that China is involved in an aforementioned conflict in his opening remarks. “build-up in every warfare area” From space and cyber to blue water navy “We’ll see more of the Chinese navy” It will continue to expand its operations around the world in the future. Beijing is expanding its logistics networks through port access agreements, formal basing arrangement and takeovers in ports of countries that have defaulted with infrastructure loans.
In addition to its expanding navy, China’s 15,000-vessel fishing fleet often pays little attention to exclusive economic zone restrictions. These fishing fleets travel around the globe hauling in fish stocks that are critical to the world’s food supply. These vessels use the oceans’ size in locations as far apart as the Philippines and the coast of South America to fish illegally.
The government-subsidized fishing fleet is sometimes backed by China Coast Guard vessels to press territorial claims as it is doing in the South China Sea.
Last month, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro termed China’s illegal and unreported fishing as happening on an “industrial scale.”
China’s rise “is not a regional dominance issue but a global issue,” Studeman stated.
On Russian Navy’s performance since the Feb. 24 invasion, Studeman noted that it “continues to fire missiles” From submarines and surface vessels into Ukraine, but it was the ships are staying close to the coast of the Crimean Peninsula for their own safety.
“The Ukrainians have come up with very innovative techniques” To strike back. RTS was sunk by the Ukrainians Moskva (121), the flagship of the Kremlin’s Black Sea fleet, with Neptune missiles in April. The Russians moved two attack submarines of the Kilo-class class from their large base at Sevastopol in the aftermath. Kyiv used drones this fall to attack Russian surface ships in Black Sea.
Despite Russia’s failings on the ground, Moscow is “playing a game of throttling” Despite an agreement between Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey guaranteeing the safe passage of these vessels through Black Sea, grain exports from Kyiv were subject to snap inspections.
“There is great concern” Globally, there is concern about a food shortage caused by war.
Studeman said this gives Russia “an opportunity to sell their own wheat” While keeping Ukrainian harvests in port. Moscow claims that it did not receive all the fertilizer it was promised to export under the U.N.-brokered arrangement.
He pointed out Iran, which has exported drones in support of the Russian military in Ukraine. “is continuing to support its proxies with lots of weaponry” Like the Houthis in Yemen, to include a variety unmanned systems. Iran was also present. as reported by USNI NewsIs it possible to convert a container ship carrying cargo into a “drone carrier” To increase its long-range strike capability beyond the Persian Gulf.
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