China's increasingly advanced weaponry could undermine US military power in the Pacific

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China's increasingly advanced weaponry could undermine US military power in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday.
Echoing US intelligence guidelines released on Tuesday that warned of Beijing's military modernization, Gates said US naval carriers and air bases in the Pacific faced new threats from China.

"In fact, when considering the military-modernization programs of countries like China, we should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the US symmetrically -- fighter to fighter or ship to ship -- and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options," Gates said in a speech to the Air Force Association.

"Investments in cyber and anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry, and ballistic missiles could threaten

America's primary way to project power and help allies in the Pacific -- in particular our forward air bases and carrier strike groups," Gates said in National Harbor, Maryland.

The new threats meant long-range military aircraft would take on greater importance as the latest weaponry would "degrade the effectiveness of short-range fighters and put more of a premium on being able to strike from over the horizon -- whatever form that capability might take," he said.

Defense analysts have warned that the US military will soon lose its dominance on the high seas, in space and in cyberspace as China and other emerging powers obtain sophisticated weaponry and missiles.

The United States released its 2009 National Intelligence Strategy document Tuesday, in which China's "natural resource-focused diplomacy and military modernization" were cited as factors making it a "global challenge."

The intelligence guidelines for the next four years also elevated the importance of the cyber domain, singling out China as "very aggressive in the cyberworld."





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And obongo claims to not be scared of china over this. This "super liberal messiah" has turned out to be the biggest war monger their is. The very people who voted for this chimp are antiwar, anticapitalism, and hailed obongo as the "post racial candidate", yet he wants to open a super highway for trade from mehico to canada via our country, sent more troops to the mideast, and has done nothing but promote racial "entitlement" programs. In mean time these "occupy wall street" idiots are ignoring our open border they as citizens should be helping to patrol, blocking that super highway, protesting what is now the obama wars, and saying no to racist rhetoric, but of course to be a liberal = being a hypocrite on many fronts with a bad sense of priorities. Maybe they might in a 1 in a million chance wake up when our dollar is worth a penny, their years of earning a college education is worthless because they should have taken spanish courses instead of english, and we are bombed.