Trying to cause the 5th Taiwan Strait Crisis and the 2nd crisis over Taiwan within 6 months huh?
On the other hand, does that mean Beijing would be granted even more leeway to fly warplanes and sail warships much closer to Taiwan than since August 2022?
Then China can also deliver pickled vegetables and poached eggs directly onto the island itself more easily, using DJI drones launched from PLAN warships!
Time to make regular bomber and fighter overflights into the new status quo.
Americans are unhingedly trying to start ww3. There is no moral defense towards involving US politicians and US forces into someone else's civil war, especially after US tried to hard to rally UN into condemning Russia doing the same thing barely 1 year ago.
China should defintely announce a snap increase to military spending. High spending can ensure deterrence, its worth it even if it hurts the economy. Just see it as an American tax, a price to pay in order to prevent ww3. In the long term, developing the military industrial complex will yield other advantages as well.
In the 1980s, budget was up to 6-7% gdp.
Should US go ahead with threatening Chinese borders further, the best thing China can do is to announce an additional 1 trillion USD equivalent to the armed forces, annually for a couple of years, earmarked to help the PLA counter US military buildup, as well as a general spending increase to 2% gdp.
We are hardly asking for imperial Japan or even USSR levels of military spending. Just for China to do a 1 time boost followed by the lowest minimal NATO spending. And this will be sufficient to ensure conventional supremacy over NATO in the foreseeable future.
