The opinion of Chinese experts ('Huangqiu Shibao', China)

At the same time as America blatantly flaunts its military strength on the Korean Peninsula, sending soldiers and officers to the western Pacific, she also took up a tactical reconfiguration of troops in the area of ​​“strategic islands”, which include Hawaii, Guam and Okinawa and the beginning to build their own carrier strike groups (AUG), these "floating bridgeheads away from home", in new frightening battle formations. This new deployment of US military units has already changed the past deployment of military forces in the western Pacific Ocean, which dealt a serious blow to the military situation in East Asia and created a serious threat to (countries) in the region, especially China.

Ways of entry of the Chinese Navy into the ocean were highly threatened due to the US plans to deploy 3 aircraft carrier groups in the western Pacific Ocean. If this situation continues on a long-term basis, then apart from the huge threat to the eastern regions of China, this will also create a situation where any activity of the Chinese Navy in the region will be under scrutiny and total control by the United States, which is much more serious.

At the same time, military pressure on the Chinese Northeast will significantly increase. South Korean troops, supported by the US military, are putting pressure on North Korea. Against this background, the militaristic North Korea cannot but respond, and the rather alarming military situation on the Korean Peninsula cannot be normalized in the near future. This provision makes it impossible for China not to exert “a certain amount of effort” to carry out preventive military rearrangements in the northeast.

It is highly likely that the United States will by all means lift the troops of its allied partners, Japan and South Korea, to a new level. The strategic goal of the United States is to preserve its world domination, which implies, if possible, bring partners to a stage so that they are ready to give their lives for this goal. This coincides with the urgent, at the moment, aspirations of South Korea and Japan to raise the level of their armed forces. Thus, with a comprehensive pushing, both from the inside and the outside, of these countries in the military sphere, they are quite likely to make a qualitative leap in it. This kind of modernization is likely to lead to a new round of rearmament in Southeast Asia, but the most important thing is that all this will happen through the mass import of the most modern weapons.

Every day it becomes more and more clear that the point of application of the American armed forces and the American military thought is moving more and more to the East. For a hundred years, American attention was focused on the alignment of forces in Europe, however, following the normalization and stabilization of European security, the United States forcedly shifted the center of gravity of its armed forces to other regions and moved the 3 AUG to areas of the western Pacific. Let us also add to this last year’s demonstration by the United States of the capabilities of conducting military operations in the Asia-Pacific region, including in the form of military exercises, which just testifies to the shift of the center of American military strategy there.

This kind of large-scale US military action in the western Pacific has the most direct effect on China. How, then, can peace and stability be maintained in the region, being face to face with the sending of American troops there? How can you prevent the transmutation of the military situation in the region? Full-scale rivalry with the United States over the type of the USSR is virtually impossible for China. Facing the American military threat to China, there is nothing left but to maintain a balance in the western Pacific through increasing the combat capability of the main forces, which leads to an increase in the level of strategic intimidation. Of course, the goal of encouraging all the armed forces is to increase the level of combat effectiveness of this basic core. Facing American military pressure, China will not be able to solve the task of freeing it from this pressure without a qualitative leap in the military sphere, this leap is an objective need of China imposed on it from outside. So where is the possible exit? The writer of these lines believes that the solution lies in a breakthrough in military technology, a development along the path of an “asymmetric” answer. You can roughly calculate how much it is necessary to increase the amount of investments in the military sphere, in order for China to make such a breakthrough. On the one hand, this will help China get rid of the dangerous imbalance of military forces in the western Pacific Ocean, on the other hand, firmly adhering to the development of dual-use technologies, this kind of qualitatively new achievements in the military sphere will stimulate the development of civilian technologies.

The military imbalance of forces in the region was created by the United States, and only in the absence of a further swinging of the military situation under the control of the latter will the possibility of reducing the new spiral of tension in the western Pacific regions remain.