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China Is Making a Bold Military Power Play..
As lawmakers meet this week to cement Xi Jinping’s power at home, China’s president is also looking to boost his country’s military might abroad. He’s overhauled China’s military to challenge U.S. supremacy in the Indo-Pacific, most visibly with a plan to put half-a-dozen aircraft carriers in the world’s oceans. Still, Xi has a problem: He needs bases around the world to refuel and repair his global fleet. So far, China only has one overseas military base, compared with dozens for the U.S., which also has hundreds of smaller installations.
中國加速擴張海外軍事基地?
企圖突破美國的封鎖與扼阻? .
21 世紀中國強勢崛起,必須從世界各地取得更多的戰略資源,謀求國家長久的經濟發展,其中又以能源項目(石油,天然氣及各式各樣的礦產)以及糧食為主要維護等項目,因此更進一步要取得海外軍事基地,未雨籌謀,以防止未來世界第3次世界大戰的爆發,有所準備及因應.如今中國的經濟成長實力僅次於美國,同時國防軍事力量已經超越俄羅斯,成為世界第二大軍事強國,有資格與美國一爭雌雄.\
美國軍事情報分析透露出目前中國在東非洲Djibouti.建立第一個海外綜合性軍事基地(陸海空軍),除此之外中國將於巴基斯坦,斯里蘭卡,阿拉伯聯合大公國,伊朗,尼日尼亞,肯亞,坦桑尼亞,納米比亞等國家,接洽租賃或是購買軍事基地開發使用,甚至於傳聞法國同意出售,南太平洋某島嶼,給予中國建設開發成為綜合性的軍港,商港,及漁港使用.售價100億歐元買斷終生擁有使用權及所有權,換句話說插上中國的國旗擁有主權.國際戰略專家預言,中國正在等待機會,從東歐或是南歐某國取得軍事基地使用權(租賃).如此一來中國全球的軍事佈局達到初期的成果與美國在全球擁有800 餘個海外軍事基地簡直是小巫見大巫..
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China wants to increase its military presence abroad
How concerned should America and its allies be?
.In recent years China has stepped up efforts to challenge the U.S.’s military presence in the South China Sea, developing missiles to deter American warships and reclaiming land to build bases on the disputed Spratly Islands. It also started sending submarines and frigates into the Indian Ocean, opened its first overseas base in Djibouti and invested in ports around the region that could one day be used for military purposes. That has set off alarm bells among some countries in the region, leading to closer security cooperation between the U.S., Australia, India and Japan. But China says there’s nothing to worry about. It says the base is aimed at deterring piracy in a key Middle East shipping lane for oil tankers, while the ports are part of Xi’s Belt-and-Road infrastructure push that spans three continents. China says it wants prosperity for all–not global hegemony.
Djibouti is only the first step in what is likely to become a network of Chinese bases across the Indian Ocean.
China says military budget to increase again by ‘appropriate’ level..Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, China has continued to significantly expand and overhaul its military. However, information about actual spending compared with budget announcements remains opaque, with the US defence department estimating it could be 1.1 to 2 times higher...
China’s military spending is far below that of the US. But it has the world’s largest infantry and biggest navy, and continues to build its stockpile of missiles, warships, submarines and planes including nuclear-capable bombers and stealth fighters..
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Military Expenditure in China increased to 293351.90 USD Million in 2021 from 257973.40 USD Million in 2020. source: SIPRI.
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China’s military budget is set to increase again, the spokesperson for its rubber-stamping parliament has said, before a week-long political meeting expected to make big changes to China’s system of governance and increase measures to combat international sanctions.
The spokesperson for the National People’s Congress, China’s legislative body, addressed the media on the eve of its annual meeting to outline the week’s agenda, including changes to the constitution and the legal sector, and endorsing new appointments to senior roles.
Wang Chao said defence budget rises as a proportion of GDP had been moderate and below global averages. Last year’s 1.45tn yuan (£190bn) budget was a rise of 7.1% and followed a rise of 6.8% in 2021 and 6.6% in 2020.
Wang did not say by how much the budget would increase, but said it was “appropriate and reasonable” and was needed for China to meet complex security challenges and to “fulfil its responsibilities as a major country”.
“The modernisation of China’s military will not pose a threat to any country,” Wang said. “On the contrary, it will only be a positive force for safeguarding regional stability and world peace.”Defense Budgets:While the U.S. still dwarfs China when it comes to defense spending, Beijing’s sweeping modernization of the People’s Liberation Army has prompted increases in military outlays from India to Japan. The PLA Navy has led the way. Since 2000, China’s seven main shipyards have produced more submarines, destroyers, frigates and corvettes than the collective output of South Korea, Japan and India, according to the 2020 Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies..
Aircraft Carrier Catch-Up
China’s aircraft carrier program is still in its infancy: Only one, the Liaoning, is currently in operation. Of five others planned, two are currently under construction. Two of the carriers are limited by systems that rely on ski-jump decks to launch planes into the air, rather than the steam-catapults commonly used on U.S. carriers. The third carrier could use an electromagnetic aircraft launch system that will be used on the USS Gerald Ford, which was commissioned by the U.S. Navy last year. That system, which reduces wear and tear, is the first in an American fleet that includes 10 Nimitz-class carriers–all of which are nuclear-powered. Reports this month said China may also be planning to build a nuclear-powered vessel, though that hasnt been confirmed.
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Note: Ford-class carriers will eventually replace the Nimitz-class
Hemmed In
Chinese military strategists have long felt boxed in by the so-called First Island Chain, a string of U.S.-aligned governments off its coast stretching from Japan to Taiwan to the Philippines. When the Liaoning sailed through the Miyako Strait for the first time at the end of 2016, the transit was hailed as a milestone in China. Even so, the U.S. and its allies will still be able to track the comings and goings of Chinese vessels through the region’s waterways until Xi is able to base part of his fleet elsewhere in the world. The U.S. suffers no such hindrance. Its fleet can sail out of San Diego unobserved and disappear into the vast Pacific Ocean.
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During the National People’s Congress, China’s lawmakers will be asked to approve the country’s military spending as part of the general budget. They are also set to endorse changes to the country’s constitution that will abolish presidential term limits, setting up Xi as a potential leader for life. That would help him implement a vision he outlined in October to turn China into a leading global power by 2050. By then, the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific might look very different.
China Opens First Overseas Military Base.EAST AFRICA.
. Chinese Peoples Liberation Army personnel attend the opening ceremony of Chinas new military base in Djibouti, Aug. 1, 2017...
Troops serving at China’s first overseas military base, in the Horn of Africa country of Djibouti, should help promote peace and stability, President Xi Jinping told them in a video chat, encouraging them to promote a good image.
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