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ታላቁ ጁንታው ዎንድማችን Meleket/yabello ቻይናን አስጠነቀቀ።

Post by Digital Weyane » 04 Aug 2022, 21:14


ዋይ ዋይ ዋይ ዋይ ዋይ! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:


Digital Weyane
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Re: ታላቁ ጁንታው ዎንድማችን Meleket/yabello ቻይናን አስጠነቀቀ።

Post by Digital Weyane » 04 Aug 2022, 21:37

ንሕና ተጋሩ ምልዮናት ብር ኻው ቻይና ተበዲርና ኻም ዘይሃፍተምና፣ ላይ ቻይና ጫማታት ኻም ዘይተጫመና፣ ላይ ቻይና አልባሳት ኻም ዘይተኸደንና፣ አውዙይ ሕዚ ወቕቲ ቻይና ምስ ፈረንጂ ጎይተትና ተጎራፊጣ እይልና ከነላህያ በትሪ ወያነና ምውጥዋጥ ውለታ ቢስ ዶይገብረናይ? :roll: :roll:

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Post by Digital Weyane » 05 Aug 2022, 17:49

ዋይ ዋይ ዋይ ዋይ ዋይ :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

The last time there was a Taiwan crisis, China’s low-tech military was badly outmatched by U.S. forces. Not now.



The United States can no longer assume it has military dominance in the event of a showdown with China over Taiwan, experts say.

The last time tensions soared between Beijing and Washington over Taiwan, the U.S. Navy sent warships through the Taiwan Strait and there was nothing China could do about it.

Those days are gone.

China’s military has undergone a transformation since the mid-1990s when a crisis erupted over Taiwan’s president visiting the U.S., prompting an angry reaction from Beijing.

“It’s a very different situation now,” said Michele Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense for policy in the Obama administration. “It’s a much more contested and much more lethal environment for our forces.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping, unlike his predecessors, now has serious military power at his disposal, including ship-killing missiles, a massive navy and an increasingly capable air force. That new military might is changing the strategic calculus for the U.S. and Taiwan, raising the potential risks of a conflict or miscalculation, former officials and experts say.

During the 1995-96 crisis, in an echo of current tensions, China staged live-fire military drills, issued stern warnings to Taipei and launched missiles into waters near Taiwan.

But the U.S. military responded with the largest show of force since the Vietnam War, sending an array of warships to the area, including two aircraft carrier groups. The carrier Nimitz and other battleships sailed through the narrow waterway that separates China and Taiwan, driving home the idea of America’s military dominance.

“Beijing should know the strongest military power in the western Pacific is the United States,” said the then-defense secretary, William Perry.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) back then was a low-tech, slow-moving force that was no match for the U.S. military, with a lackluster navy and air force that could not venture too far from China's coastline, former and current U.S. officials said.

“They realized they were vulnerable, that the Americans could sail aircraft carriers right up in their face, and there was nothing they could do about it,” said Matthew Kroenig, who served as an intelligence and defense official in the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations.

The Chinese, taken aback by the U.S. military’s high-tech display in the first Gulf War, “went to school on the American way of war” and launched a concerted effort to invest in their military and — above all — to bolster their position in the Taiwan Strait, Kroenig said.

Beijing drew a number of lessons from the 1995-96 crisis, concluding it needed satellite surveillance and other intelligence to spot adversaries over the horizon, and a “blue water” navy and air force able to sail and fly across the western Pacific, according to David Finkelstein, director of China and Indo-Pacific security affairs at CNA, an independent research institute.

“The PLA Navy has made remarkable progress since 1995 and 1996. It’s actually mind-staggering how quickly the PLA Navy has built itself up. And of course in ‘95-96, the PLA Air Force almost never flew over water,” said Finkelstein, a retired U.S. Army officer.

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has described China’s dramatic rise as a military power as a strategic earthquake.

“We’re witnessing, in my view, we’re witnessing one of the largest shifts in global geostrategic power that the world has witnessed,” Milley said last year.

The Chinese military now is “very formidable especially in and around home waters, particularly in the vicinity of Taiwan,” said James Stavridis, a retired four-star admiral and former commander of NATO.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nation ... -rcna41560

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