From family in the navy, I hear they're currently short on radar technicians, both operating and servicing. Supposedly, ground based radar is facing the same issues. That fancy AESA radar does nothing if nobody is reading it or maintaining it.
Unless we have an actual member here within the highest echlions of the Chinese military, we will never truly know the full extent as to how well China has prepared for an actual war with the USA nor do we actually know what kind of weapons that China has locked away beyond what have already showed us just now. I am honestly curious as to what kind of real weapons China has benealth of the diplomatic talk and given Chinese manufacturing capacity dwarfing Russia andf Russia can produce an endless amount of missiles and shells to the point where the west is losing ground there, we can expect China to have more then enough missiles to glass Taiwan on the day that a conflict starts (just saying, not that China would ever do such a thing like that) and still enough left over to further fights going forward. Hopefully all the problems that China has with its military will be amended in due time.
You can't. However, you do need to protect your hard earned wealth from bandits and pirates.
Whom do Yellen and her ilks think they are fooling? The vast majority of Chinese readily sees through their nonsense. I would love to see Yellen's face when she is informed that 93% of Chinese are satisfied with their central government (table 1) and the Chinese people and their government are inseparable.
No wonder India soldiers' balls are carefully checked. I guess you can only serve in the Indian army if your have balls of iron so you can resist honey-traps.
Another hypocrite. Her actions speaks louder than her insincere words. What has she done really?