It is “very likely” that the United States will be at war with China in the near future, likely in 15 years, according to a former commanding general of the US Army in Europe.
Retired Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges this week offered a reminder to European allies that they would have to do more to ensure their own defense in the face of a resurgent Russia, because the US would need to focus more attention on defending its interests in the Pacific Ocean to fend off a more assertive China, The Associated Press reported.
“The United States does not have the capacity to do everything it has to do in Europe and in the Pacific to deal with the Chinese threat,” Hodges told a packed room at the Warsaw Security Forum, a two-day gathering of leaders and military and political experts from Central Europe.
“I think in 15 years – it’s not inevitable, but it is a very strong likelihood – that we will be at war with China.”
Hodges commanded the US Army in Europe from 2014 to 2017. He is now a strategic expert with the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, DC.
Hodges later told reporters that a recent “near miss” between a US Navy destroyer and a Chinese warship in the South China Sea was only one of the signs foreshadowing “an increasingly tense relationship and increasing competition in all the different domains” between the two superpowers.
Destroyers with the US and Chinese navies nearly collided last month during a US “freedom of navigation” operation to snub Beijing’s steadfast territorial claims that cover most of the South China Sea.
China’s other irritants are happening in tandem, such as “constant stealing of technology” and gaining control of infrastructure by funding projects in Africa and Europe, according to Hodges.
He said China already owned “more than 10% of the ports in Europe.”
Beijing’s response so far to Hodge’s hostile remarks is from Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, who called on the US to drop what he said a “Cold War mentality” at a forum held in Beijing
Wei, who met with US Secretary of Defense James Mattis last Friday at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, said military facilities were needed to protect Chinese interests in the South China Sea.
“The South China Sea situation is stabilizing, which proves that all countries can take care of their own affairs,” Wei said.
He also sought to assure neighboring countries that China had no interest in engaging in an arms race.
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The eons old chinese saying 一山不能容二虎 is as proven and as true as Newton’s law “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction…
In other words, war will happen between the US and China. Question is: how serious will this war be and how will it erupt?
My suspicion: this war to be a limited NUCLEAR shootout, limited as in Falkland war with 80% sea assets both sides becoming new habitats for the sea creatures of the region (Pacific Theatre) for the next hundred years to come…
End of US China war story…
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The eons old chinese saying 一山不能容二虎 is as proven and as true as Newton’s law “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction…
In other words, war will happen between the US and China. Question is: how serious will this war be and how will it erupt?
My suspicion: this war to be a limited NUCLEAR shootout, limited as in Falkland war with 80% sea assets both sides becoming new habitats for the sea creatures of the region (Pacific Theatre) for the next hundred years to come…
End of US China war story…
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***Vietnam***
Sorry to dampent the prides of the Poopers this board, but…
In all honesty, the Americans did beat the craps out of the poopers.
Don’t forget: the ratio was literally million(s) upon million(s) verse a mere 50,000 draftees the other side.. No heroism there.
And, seriously still, the poopers would have definitely been nagasaki’ed and hiroshima’ed by LBJ if China and Brezhnev had not saidb”NO” to that…
C’mon, the Poopers wasn’t victorious in the war. They were spared because the US feared WW3 between themselves and a massive China as well as a nuclear tipped USSR..
The thanks we Chinese get for sticking through thick and thin with them Poopers…
A lesson well learnt for us Chinese to never again support or fight alongside them as we had in the past…
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***Vietnam***
Sorry to dampent the prides of the Poopers this board, but…
In all honesty, the Americans did beat the craps out of the poopers.
Don’t forget: the ratio was literally million(s) upon million(s) verse a mere 50,000 draftees the other side.. No heroism there.
And, seriously still, the poopers would have definitely been nagasaki’ed and hiroshima’ed by LBJ if China and Brezhnev had not saidb”NO” to that…
C’mon, the Poopers wasn’t victorious in the war. They were spared because the US feared WW3 between themselves and a massive China as well as a nuclear tipped USSR..
The thanks we Chinese get for sticking through thick and thin with them Poopers…
A lesson well learnt for us Chinese to never again support or fight alongside them as we had in the past…
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Mark Niio
Sorry, Mark. It was dictionary,com. Not baidu ????????????…
Baidu is what we use to hack people like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Grumman, etc., etc…
IRONICALLY, and JOKINGLY, It’s call thievery ????. Thievery as in wave rider verses awesome DF-ZF?
Yes, we hacked them, then we refine the hack and turn them into far more advance copies, copies as in Mach 5 verses Mach 10, the latter lockheed Martin don’t even have a clue yet.. I mean the IRONY. Don’t you agree?
B*tch on, Mark. It’s your prerogative to b*tch and, b*tching just might put a stop to our progress since trade wars isn’t going to do it.
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Mark Niio
Sorry, Mark. It was dictionary,com. Not baidu ????????????…
Baidu is what we use to hack people like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Grumman, etc., etc…
IRONICALLY, and JOKINGLY, It’s call thievery ????. Thievery as in wave rider verses awesome DF-ZF?
Yes, we hacked them, then we refine the hack and turn them into far more advance copies, copies as in Mach 5 verses Mach 10, the latter lockheed Martin don’t even have a clue yet.. I mean the IRONY. Don’t you agree?
B*tch on, Mark. It’s your prerogative to b*tch and, b*tching just might put a stop to our progress since trade wars isn’t going to do it.
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Ex-US general says war with China ‘likely in 15 years’
After 8 years old of war, 58,000 deaths, and billions and billions spent, we can’t even defeat Vietnam. And we are going to fight China!!! Vietnam had no way to attack America’s homeland, but China can, and will!!! Think about it before going to war with China.
Ex-US general says war with China ‘likely in 15 years’
After 8 years old of war, 58,000 deaths, and billions and billions spent, we can’t even defeat Vietnam. And we are going to fight China!!! Vietnam had no way to attack America’s homeland, but China can, and will!!! Think about it before going to war with China.
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Re Confrontation:
The ball it’s in your court, Mark.
All you need is to do, Mark, is to lop one of these mothers https://youtu.be/MHxj7z6x11g on us and see if it’ll go unanswered.
This is the 21st century, Mark. A century of sure kill and unstoppable smart weaponries.
No one, no nation’s military apoaratuses”, is as “untouchable” as it was in the 19th and 20th century, Mark.
As for this enchanted Island which, will forever flourish under the sun:
Again, those F-16 (J’s) just shipped the Island are but childs play as compared to the toys we developed which, principally, is to deal with superpowers — superpower only of our own caliber.
As for Taiwan:
I was just in island, 10 whole days. The air there is that Chinese will not use hostility on its own people unless foreign powers push or pressures the Island to succeed — by force.
Unification is a long term process for China. The Island, WILL, ULTIMATELY, be overwhelmed by Chinese pride and Chinese nationalism and will happen. It will happen. If not in this generation, then the next.
So suck away my friend…
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Re Confrontation:
The ball it’s in your court, Mark.
All you need is to do, Mark, is to lop one of these mothers https://youtu.be/MHxj7z6x11g on us and see if it’ll go unanswered.
This is the 21st century, Mark. A century of sure kill and unstoppable smart weaponries.
No one, no nation’s military apoaratuses”, is as “untouchable” as it was in the 19th and 20th century, Mark.
As for this enchanted Island which, will forever flourish under the sun:
Again, those F-16 (J’s) just shipped the Island are but childs play as compared to the toys we developed which, principally, is to deal with superpowers — superpower only of our own caliber.
As for Taiwan:
I was just in island, 10 whole days. The air there is that Chinese will not use hostility on its own people unless foreign powers push or pressures the Island to succeed — by force.
Unification is a long term process for China. The Island, WILL, ULTIMATELY, be overwhelmed by Chinese pride and Chinese nationalism and will happen. It will happen. If not in this generation, then the next.
So suck away my friend…
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Not so, Mr. Fung…
It’s NOT SALES BRINKSMANSHIP.
It’s clear and simple a racially motivated case of anti-CHICOM anti-HAN discrimination. It doesn’t take a genius to see through that.
But, that’s fine with us Chinese, guys. It‘s not as if we won’t discriminate back equally or more so in return so…
Fire away ya yella peril mental rerarts ????????????…
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Not so, Mr. Fung…
It’s NOT SALES BRINKSMANSHIP.
It’s clear and simple a racially motivated case of anti-CHICOM anti-HAN discrimination. It doesn’t take a genius to see through that.
But, that’s fine with us Chinese, guys. It‘s not as if we won’t discriminate back equally or more so in return so…
Fire away ya yella peril mental rerarts ????????????…
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Flora de los Sinensis Look at this delusional braindead wumao. Looks like your baidu translation isn’t working so fine today. If ccp truly thinks they are strong enough to confront US then Taiwan would have been forced to merge with their so called fake motherland by CCP mafiaso a long time back. They know if they ever try that US will smack their ass. We just need to nuke Han settled East coast of China into Stone age. Easy peasy.
Flora de los Sinensis Look at this delusional braindead wumao. Looks like your baidu translation isn’t working so fine today. If ccp truly thinks they are strong enough to confront US then Taiwan would have been forced to merge with their so called fake motherland by CCP mafiaso a long time back. They know if they ever try that US will smack their ass. We just need to nuke Han settled East coast of China into Stone age. Easy peasy.
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***the Chinese are planning to conque***
You are full of sh*t. Have anyone here ever told you that?
If no one has ever said that to you, then please allow me this opportunity because someone has to do the deed so why not me?
Facts: we Chinese don’t flex our military muscles anywhere; not in Kosevo; not in Iraq; Libya; Syria; Korea, against a badly picked on Kim; we never napalm, agent oranged, or carpeted Vietnam; we don’t have trooos stationed in South Korea; we don’t send our tanks and chopper gunships into the continent of Africa; we don’t assign navy seals or CUA agents to disrupt Latin America…
We don’t have troops anywhere outside of China aside from UN Peace Keepers, so what sh*t here are spewing saying “Chinese are planning to conquer”?
Yes, Marc, you sre full of sh*t if no one else here has ever said that to you in your face…
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***the Chinese are planning to conque***
You are full of sh*t. Have anyone here ever told you that?
If no one has ever said that to you, then please allow me this opportunity because someone has to do the deed so why not me?
Facts: we Chinese don’t flex our military muscles anywhere; not in Kosevo; not in Iraq; Libya; Syria; Korea, against a badly picked on Kim; we never napalm, agent oranged, or carpeted Vietnam; we don’t have trooos stationed in South Korea; we don’t send our tanks and chopper gunships into the continent of Africa; we don’t assign navy seals or CUA agents to disrupt Latin America…
We don’t have troops anywhere outside of China aside from UN Peace Keepers, so what sh*t here are spewing saying “Chinese are planning to conquer”?
Yes, Marc, you sre full of sh*t if no one else here has ever said that to you in your face…
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Mark Niio
Shup up? ????????????????…. ROFLOLLMAO!
You have to do better than simply utter the words [SHUT UP] if you want a TURKEY SHOOT TO START between THE ONLY THREE BIG BOYS — the only BIG THREES on this earth who have muscles enough to incinerate the world many times over…
You can’t expect, or wish to, have the CCP ERASED FROM THE FACE OF THIS EARTH and not, simultaneously, BE REASED IN RETURN.
Once more, if this applies: those F-16(J’s), if you’ve already received them, are but childs play as compared to the various of amenities the CCP is readying itself, not for you, but, for the only other two of the big threes on this earth after the CCP, so yes…
ROFLOLLMAO!
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Mark Niio
Shup up? ????????????????…. ROFLOLLMAO!
You have to do better than simply utter the words [SHUT UP] if you want a TURKEY SHOOT TO START between THE ONLY THREE BIG BOYS — the only BIG THREES on this earth who have muscles enough to incinerate the world many times over…
You can’t expect, or wish to, have the CCP ERASED FROM THE FACE OF THIS EARTH and not, simultaneously, BE REASED IN RETURN.
Once more, if this applies: those F-16(J’s), if you’ve already received them, are but childs play as compared to the various of amenities the CCP is readying itself, not for you, but, for the only other two of the big threes on this earth after the CCP, so yes…
ROFLOLLMAO!
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You dumbass idiot, the Chinese are planning to conquer, the United States,within the next couple of months, you idiot you think the Chinese are, planning to play hooky?
You dumbass idiot, the Chinese are planning to conquer, the United States,within the next couple of months, you idiot you think the Chinese are, planning to play hooky?