China’s Military is Growing – Fast

With major advances in missile technology, naval forces and intelligence, China is well on its way to becoming what President Xi Jinping calls a “world-class” military power by 2049.

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[doniel]

Funny. A country with 800 military bases around the globe is looking at one with just one overseas base and says "you're growing too fast".

[chetshu]

2:21 She is right. China's military expense has grown faster since 1999, the year when NATO bombed the China's embassy in Serbia, the Yugoslavia back then.

[Jay_Bless]

I have respect for countries that have grown strong despite western sanctions and blackmail.

[SoulAndDust]

USA: "A day without hypocrisy, is a day wasted".

[boyifyoudont]

US with over 800 bases world wide: “this is fine”

US seeing a single eastern country trying to open a base: “you’re out of control, you’re prepping for war”

[howaterbrd]

Chinese military budget is still 25%of the US', China hasn't fought in a war this century. China is not the problem, Western aggression is.

[dumbfrog]

25 years ago China's share of the world GDP was about 3%; now, it is about18.5%.
In the past 2000 years, China's share of the world GDP was around 25%. The US surpassed China in GDP in the year 1890. It seems like China will reclaim it back within 10 years.
China was almost colonized by the West and Japan. Learned from the past 150 years, China needs a strong military to protect its wealth.

[FERaptor]

Whether you like China or not or whether you disagree or agree with their tactics, one cannot deny that they have grown to be a modern nation. They still have a ways to go, but lifting millions out of poverty is perhaps the best achievement any country can accomplish.

[meowxsquared]

U.S: (Has over 800 bases overseas)
China: (Built 1 in Djoubouti)
Also U.S: *"WE FEEL THREATHENED"*

[johndonald]

You forgot to give the reason why. Because they are surrounded by hundreds of military bases.

[xwendy]

I am so glad that most of the people understand the real situation in this world

[smashsmash]

I don't see anything wrong having a strong military when you have a strong growing fast economy. They need to protected.

[kinhuang]

If you are familiar with China history of the past 200 years, you definitly understand why China has been developing its military power.

[transfig]

As a Chinese, I can say that China's economy and military is really growing fast now. I love my country!

[yuluoxianjun]

When USA say you have extremely dangerous weapons, you'd better really have, or...

[tigermo]

Blumberg's tape has two sides, China threat theory and China collapse theory, playing side A today🤣🤣🤣

[prathapkoththigoda]

Do another one. Title is "USA military had never stopped growing and invading other countries"

[NuestraPatriaGrande]

China is growing its military slower than Europe and especially the US. The reason for this is that China wants a strong military to support its trade in the world. China is the main trading partner of 140 countries. The US military uses up close a trillion dollars annually on its military to maintain its primacy as the unipolar power of the world.The differences in the military architecture of China and that of Western countries is simply that China´s military is defensive in nature and The West is offensive in nature. One is there to patrol the world and China wants to provide safe passage to itself and others in trade and to ward off piracy. China has a larger fleet for the maneuvers it needs just as the US has a stronger fighting force to stop any geopolitical challenge to its hegemony. The present problem in the US today is that our elites calculate China´s rise as it calculates other rising powers in Western history. China lost a lot by being closed off to the rest of the world. It was invaded by the mongols, Japan, and the US with its allies. It was not until 1949 that the Chinese began a hard struggle to modernize and avoided a US invasion by developing its own atomic bomb by 1964.China wants its territories back and Taiwan is indispensable because it was a part of China and because it presents an existential threat to China´s security in it become a vassal state of the US. It was on the condition that the US accepted that Taiwan is a rebellious autonomous region of China, That China established normal relations with the US in 1972. The US uses the Taiwan situation to agitate the nationalistic fervor of the Chinese. Elites in the US want to provoke a war is it has alrteady done in Ukraine. The US/NATO strategy has failed against Russia and it will fail miserably against China. A wiser approach would be to learn a lot about the Chinese tendencies to close themselves off as a means of avoiding conflict. The Chinese culture approaches conflicts from the perspective of establishing trust and resolving disputes by allowing time to resolve the or solve problems through negotiations with a win-win attitude. This requires knowing your competitor well enough to present a win-win offer. China has survived through many crises and wars. It already has the largest economy as it did prior to its closing off and invasions by Japan and The West. China is a mature civilization. The US can have its hegemony with China´s help. What the world will not accept are unilateral illegal sanctions, invasion of other countries, interventions in the sovereign affairs of other countries and economic black mail.

[MrLchao]

When you go from zero bases to 1 base, that is a 100% increase.... lol

[TheRealIronMan]

Friendly reminder in 2021 China's military spending was 1.7% of their GDP while the US was at 3.7%, China's military is growing as the same level as their GDP growth rate, the US military is growing fast without the actual growth rate to back it up, its like the Cold War but this time the US is in the same position as USSR previously did.