.The day after the bill was passed.

Fu Xiubo responded to the request of the King of Thailand.

We will conduct an official visit to Thailand, and we will visit Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia, and then go to Singapore to participate in the "ASEAN and China Summit,...

This lantern-like foreign affairs activity reminds people of what happened in the East China Sea at the beginning of the year

In the eyes of almost everyone, Fu Xiubo actively visited the seven ASEAN countries not to attend the summit, but to stabilize these countries so as to free up their hands to deal with the ready-to-go Japan.

You know, before that.

The East China Sea dispute between China and Japan has risen to a military standoff.

Although the Chinese authorities did not make any statement after the patrol ship of the Japan Maritime Guard Office crashed and sank a Chinese slag ship. After all, everyone knows what the fishing boat does, it does not mean that the Chinese authorities will swallow their anger. The subsequent joint land, sea and air exercises conducted by the Chinese army in the waters of the Danshan Islands were the strongest reaction. In the words of Japanese news media, China is striving to seek opportunities to resolve the East China Sea dispute with military means.

Is this really the case?

On the surface, the Japanese news media are right.

China has just won the Second Korean War, defeated the world's most powerful US military, and became the second country in the world to develop, produce and equip the fourth-generation heavy air combat fighter jets in 2017. The first large aircraft carrier designed and built by each bank was also launched in 2018 and is expected to be officially put into service in 2021. As for the Chinese Army, it has consolidated the throne of "world's number one" with victory.

If it weren't for the announcement of disarmament in 2018 and the layoffs of soldiers mobilized during the Second Korean War, China's military influence would have surpassed the United States.

The military strength at its peak makes anyone believe that China has the motivation to launch a war.

The question is, can these appearances indicate that the Chinese military is already very powerful?

It is undeniable that on the ground battlefield, the Chinese army is indeed very powerful, but in the ocean and air, the Chinese army is definitely not as powerful as it shows.

In 2017, with the official mass production of F porridge, the US Air Force entered a new era.

Within four years after the end of the Second Korean War, the United States' military and technological progress cannot be ignored.

In the Army, the United States not only restarted the "Comanche," and decided to completely replace A-Taipei with a new generation of armed helicopters starting in 2025, but also launched the ux plan, which is to develop a new ground main battle platform, starting in 2027, completely replace... Mi09 and m270, and the supporting "Future Army Ground Armor Platform" project will replace the m2 and m3 series of combat vehicles.

In terms of the Air Force, in addition to comprehensively improving the F-22a and developing more advanced F-22b and F-22c, it also decided to expand the size of the F-22 fleet to 498 and replace all F-15c. In terms of light fighter jets, the US Air Force increased the procurement volume of F-35a to 2,200, and planned to replace all F-16s and A-10 by 2033. As the main strike force, the B-X project was officially launched in 2017 and was carried out in two stages. First, before 2023, a medium-sized bomber with a combat radius of 3,500 kilometers and a bomb load of 14 tons, and then before 2032, a heavy bomber with a combat radius of 7,500 kilometers and a bomb load of 24 tons, both of which require stealth and supersonic cruise capabilities.

In the early 2015, when the armistice agreement was not signed, the US Navy proposed to expand the scale of the aircraft carrier battle group to 14, and without reducing the Atlantic Fleet, the Pacific Fleet's aircraft carrier battle group to nine, ensuring that two three-carrier battle groups can be invested in hot spots at any time. The construction speed of the "Virginia" class attack nuclear submarines has been increased to three per year, and the development of the next generation of attack nuclear submarines is planned to start construction in 2023. The dismounted ddg1000, namely the "Zumwalter" class drive

The warships and the CG-X plan rekindled, and planned to start construction in 2020 in 2027. The "littoral combat ship" that was in full swing was cut off by the US Navy because it was not suitable for large-scale wars and replaced it with the "Future Ocean Frigate". In terms of aviation, in addition to accelerating the procurement of the F-35C, the US Navy abandoned the "air combat performance improvement" plan of the F-35C, but proposed the F-X plan, namely, the development of a carrier-based heavy air combat fighter similar to the F-old, and replaced the unqualified F/A18F from 2027.

On the Marine Corps, the LHA-6 project, which replaced the "Hornet"-class amphibious assault, began to accelerate, and the procurement of F-35b also began in full swing in 2017. It also participated in the Army-led M-X project, and planned to start construction of a new generation of multi-purpose landing ships by 2023.

In addition to these numerous and large-scale military projects, the US military has also made comprehensive improvements to existing equipment.

There is only one focus for improvement: adapting to the comprehensive electromagnetic warfare in the future.

These military projects make every American, and other people who are concerned about these things realize that the United States is back

The Cold War era.

And this time I encountered a stronger, more difficult to defeat, and more sustainable competitiveness.

Although from reality, the United States cannot complete all military projects as planned, because this means that starting from 2017, the United States' defense budget will grow at a rate of 15% per year, and the starting point is US$130 billion in 2014.

Not to mention that it lasts for twenty years, even if it lasts for ten years, the US federal government will go bankrupt. However, the United States' massive expansion of its arms largely offset China's victory in the Second Korean War and maintained the superficial prosperity of the world's only superpower.

Compared with the United States, China's expansion of its arms can only be described as "gentle".

More importantly, China's expansion of its arms will not be able to achieve results in a short period of time.

The Navy will not say that it is frigates, destroyers, aircraft carriers, or attack nuclear submarines.

The construction period is very long.

Moreover, it takes enough time to form combat effectiveness. In just a few years, it is impossible to pose a threat to Japan, nor can it have the ability to operate oceans overnight.

Even the Yan Jun needs enough time.

Although Xiaodai was officially put into production in 2017, the output in the first two years will not exceed forty-eight aircraft, and it is mainly provided to seed troops to train pilots. If you want to form combat capabilities and reach scale, you have to wait at least until after 2021.

In comparison, the Japanese Air Force's strength growth rate is much faster.

As early as 2015, the United States signed a contract with Japan to sell F2 Concave, not only directly selling forty-eight fighter jets, but also transferring production lines and production licenses. Since early 2018, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries aircraft manufacturer delivered f-22j to the Air Self-Defense Force at a rate of four per month, and upgraded the purchased f-22a. By the time the dispute intensified in the East China Sea, Japan had nearly 100 f-22a and f-22j, while the Chinese Air Force's j-20s were less than 40.

Even in the navy, Japan has a relatively obvious advantage.

By early 2019, Japan had 36 large destroyers, while the Chinese Navy had only 24, Japan had 18 advanced conventional submarines, while the Chinese Navy had only 8 (excluding attack nuclear submarines). In addition, Japan had 120 anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and the Chinese Navy's anti-submarine patrol aircraft could be completely ignored. Most importantly, in 2017, the first medium-sized aircraft carrier using European technology laid a keel in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' shipyard, which was planned to be launched in 2021 and put into service before 2024. In addition.

Japan also plans to start construction of two medium-sized aircraft carriers of the same class by the end of 2019 and the end of 2010.

Objectively speaking, Japan's military expansion actions surpassed China.

Given the situation in mid-2019, it is difficult for the Chinese army to gain advantage in the East China Sea.

What must be said, I can only say that China is no longer afraid of military conflicts.

If it is necessary, China will not avoid using military means to resolve disputes.

However, this attitude shows that it is not China that decides whether a military conflict breaks out, but Japan, that is, as long as Japan is willing to negotiate on the dispute, China will be very active, and Japan is unwilling to resolve the dispute through negotiations, and China will not show weakness.

The result is that China will never stand firm in the exploration and exploitation of East China Sea resources.

On May 5, the ASEAN and China Summit ended, and Fu Xiubo returned to Beijing with relatively satisfactory diplomatic results.

Compared with Japan, ASEAN countries do not have such strong confidence.

Among the five ASEAN countries that have territorial waters and territorial disputes with China, only the Philippines relies on its alliance with the United States and is aggressive on the South China Sea issue and refuses to make concessions on jointly developing resources in the Justice Region. The other four countries agreed in principle to negotiate with China.

Although it is only negotiation, it is enough to stabilize these countries.

Fu Xiubo's intention is obvious, that is, when China needs to concentrate on resolving the East China Sea dispute with Japan, he does not want a fire in the backyard.

This intention was immediately revealed after he returned to Beijing.

May 7th.

Fu Xiubo invited more than a dozen private entrepreneurs with strong assets, including Shengshiping, to formally raise the issue of East China Sea resource exploration and mining.

Although Fu Xiubo clearly stated that early exploration and exploitation were concentrated in non-disputed sea areas to avoid conflicts, everyone knows that the offshore oil and gas resources in the East China Sea have long been cut off by state-owned enterprises. If private enterprises want to share the pie, they can only start from nearby disputed sea areas. Japan has long proposed that due to the influence of the geological structure of the East China Sea Basin, China's resource exploitation in adjacent disputed sea areas violates Japan's interests.

In fact, China's state-owned enterprises have not "going out" because they are affected by this factor.

Now, Fu Xiubo is using private enterprises to conduct resource exploration and mining in disputed waters, which is clearly putting pressure on Japan.

Will Gu Ben give in under pressure?
Chapter completed!