True or false… take the quiz!
1)China claims near Arctic nation status although it is 900 miles from the region. It has observer status on the Arctic Council and owns more modern icebreakers than the United States.
2) China’s New York and San Francisco consulates are major hubs for its US espionage operations. China has infiltrated NY City government, with an NYPD officer charged in September with serving as a “secret agent” for China.
3) China’s navy (PLAN) is the largest in the world, with an overall battle force of approximately 350 ships and submarines, including over 130 major surface combatants. The PLAN openly sails its uninvited warships through US territorial waters. The PLAN is largely composed of modern multi-role platforms featuring advanced anti-ship, anti-air, and anti-submarine weapons and sensors.
4) China’s army (PLA) is the largest standing ground force in the world and is transitioning into a modern, mobile, and lethal ground force by fielding upgraded combat systems and communications equipment and enhancing its ability to conduct and manage complex combined-arms and joint operations. China has a large, and effective, cyber warfare force than can effectively challenge that of the United States and the West, in some areas, surpass it.
5) China’s air force (PLAAF) and PLAN Aviation together constitute the largest aviation forces in the region and the third largest in the world, with over 2,500 total aircraft and approximately 2,000 combat aircraft. China flew a spacecraft to the dark side of the moon before any other nation.
6) China has more than 1,250 ground-launched ballistic missiles (GLBMs) and ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCMs) with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. The US fields one type of conventional GLBM with a maximum range of 300 kilometers and no GLCMs.
7) Chinese consulates in more than two dozen American cities are aiding undercover Chinese Communist Party soldiers posing as university students to engage in spying.
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9) China funds research professors at Ivy League universities in return for providing China sensitive scientific information and advanced technology, with one Harvard University professor alone receiving more than $1.5 million.
10) In 2019, China announced its annual military budget would increase by 6.2 percent, continuing more than 20 years of annual defense spending increases.
If you answered “yes” to all ten questions you sadly earned a perfect score. The Pentagon now acknowledges that China has surpassed the United States in many military areas and that it is likely to continue to advance rapidly to meet its long-term goal of becoming a hegemonic superpower by 2049. China is emerging as an aggressive, non-democratic, nation-state fomenting unrest in American cities, engaging in the theft of intellectual property from the West, and refusing to cooperate with international health researchers to stop the Covid-19 virus. It is challenging international oceanic commerce in the South and East China Seas and commercial air traffic flying in international air space above the region.
China pollutes the world physically, overfishes the oceans far from its shores, and severely abuses its own minority populations. China and the CCP leadership simply refuse to play by the modern nation-state system provided for in the 1648 Peace of Westphalia. They flaunt the norms of the international rules-based system that has provided unprecedented political stability and economic prosperity to much of the world for centuries. It must end.
China’s leadership may be descendant from an ancient Han culture, but President Xi Jinping and the CCP are more Marxist/Leninist today in their doctrine of total war and global domination. Their grand strategy: overthrow the United States and rebuild the western world in Beijing’s autocratic image. It is a chilling revelation to those who love freedom and democracy. There is no more lag time. China called “check,” now the west must move before it is “checkmate.”
DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media Inc., which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. Each Friday, she presents key updates on China.
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