After the release of the annual China Military Power Report ( CMPR ) by the US Department of Defense, Beijing has criticized Washington for spreading a” China threat” narrative.
The People’s Liberation Army ( PLA ) is prioritizing the development of artificial intelligence ( AI ) capabilities because it thinks AI is influencing the next wave of military affairs, according to the most recent CMPR. The statement said that, by 2030, the PLA expects to subject a range of “algorithmic war” and “network-centric war” features operating at different rates of human-machine connectivity.
” Analytic war” is characterized by the use of AI-related approaches in real-world operating conditions. It intends to reduce the number of warfighters who are in danger, quicken decision-making in time-sensitive activities, and operate when and where people are unable to do so.  ,
” Network-centric warfare”, which is different from the traditional platform-centric war, highlights the use of information technology in fights. The US Department of Defense was the first to adopt the phrase in the 1990s.  ,  ,
The CMPR report also said the Chinese defense industry and universities are developing quantum imaging, navigation and radar applications to enhance intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ( ISR ) capabilities, including position, navigation and timing ( PNT ).  ,
Judging from the buildout of China’s classical communication system, it said, the PLA does leverage integrated quantum networks and quantum important distribution to promote command, control and communications systems.
” This statement, like the ones we’ve seen before, lays much focus on facts. According to Lin Jian, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the” China threat” narrative is filled with discrimination and intended to intensify the United States ‘ desire to maintain military dominance.
We urge the US to abandon its dominant and Cold War mentality, view China’s strategic intentions and defense development objectively and rationally, and quit issuing this kind of irresponsible reports year after year, he said.  ,
He argued that Washington should ensure that what it does contributes to a stable relationship between the two forces and nations.
” The statement speculated on and smeared China’s nuclear power and hyped up the’ China risk ‘ rhetoric”, Zhang Junshe, a Taiwanese military analyst, told the Global Times in an interview. ” But at the same period, it took the trouble to share the PLA’s deficits in long-range administrative support and additional capabilities”.
He claimed that the US military was judging other people by their own standards because it believes China may use aircraft carriers in the South China Sea in a dominant manner, similar to what US aircraft carriers have been doing globally.  ,  ,
Energy plan
In the event of a protracted military conflict in the Western Pacific, the People’s Republic of China ( PRC ) would likely have to meet the demand for hydrocarbons from its civil and industrial populations.  ,
The PRC may become cut off from a sizable portion of its oil exports if a military fight consisted of a naval blockade, according to the report. ” The PRC’s interest in ensuring trusted, cost-effective and various oil sources to support its economic growth drives its overseas power opportunities”.
According to Zhang,” This new portion of the CMPR demonstrates that the US will launch military strikes against China in the Western Pacific in the future, launch offensives against China’s electricity supply lines, and attempt to shut China’s electricity supply off.” ” This is something that deserves our attention”.
Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said China’s defense buildup is defense, not unpleasant and aggressive. He claimed that the US views the PLA as a” risk” because it can fight when it interferes with China-related matters in the region.
According to Xin Qiang, assistant director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, US officials and military-industrial complicated members are making fictitious foes to increase martial spending so they can profit from it.  ,
Taiwan concerns
The CMPR cited fraud and a lack of real-world fight experience as some of the PLA’s flaws.  ,
A senior US defence official told the media in a lecture on December 16 that while the US does not believe a war in the Taiwan Strait is immediate or unavoidable, it is not possible that the Chinese army will be able to invade Taiwan by 2027.  ,
” We have punishment currently that’s true and solid. The standard noted that Chinese President Xi Jinping has reiterated his commitment to the 2027 step for modernizing the PRC’s military forces.” We’re doing a lot to keep it that way.  ,
We take note of the fact that the PLA’s significant fraud issues, which are still unsolved, was” slow them down” in the development of 2027 capabilities and beyond. In terms of the probable effects of corruption on the PLA’s ability to reach those goals, I believe that’s our opinion.
Separately, the cheerful US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an event on December 18 that Taiwan is “everyone’s company” as a crisis over Taiwan may include global repercussions.
” China says every time the word Taiwan comes up: Do not even notice it, it is no one’s business but our own”, he said. ” What we have been able to do is to open the eyes of almost the entire world to the fact that, no, fundamentally] Taiwan ] is everyone’s business.
He claimed that Taiwan supplies 70 % of the country’s semiconductors, and that the waters that surround the area account for the majority of international shipping.  ,
“A Pentagon official said the PLA lacks the ability to liberate Taiwan but the official failed to prove the deficiencies of the Chinese army,” Bi Dianlong, a Chinese columnist specializing in Taiwan concerns, says in an article published on December 20. “It’s now a US report comparing the military between China and the US. In the eyes of Americans, even if the PLA cannot catch up with the US army, they are at least in a similar range.”
The Americans don’t feel that mainland China would actually take action, according to Bi, who said that they don’t consider the PLA can occupy Taiwan. More than 100 vessels have lately been deployed as part of the PLA’s drilling in the first area network. This demonstrates that we are determined to bring Taiwan together.
It’s unclear whether the US do help Taiwan if a war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait.  ,
An unknown Chinese official told AFP that Beijing sent about 60 vessels and 30 coast guard ships to the region from the southeastern islands of Japan to the South China Sea on December 11.  ,
The Chinese military’s sea training, the biggest in recent years, came after Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te had a two-day US stay in Hawaii during his Pacific journey in early December.  ,