China is actively building up its military capabilities to reshape the post-World War II world order and security structure, according to General Mark Milley, chairman of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff (JSC) of the US Armed Forces.
According to Milley, China is investing heavily in the development of its naval forces, the development of hypersonic weapons, and the improvement of military technologies in order to become the same leading country in the world like Russia or the US.
The implementation of this plan, the general believes, will change the balance of power in the world after the Second World War.
“We are entering a world that is more geostrategically complex,” Milley said during a meeting of the Wall Street Journal’s CEOs.
The general pointed out the need to modernize the American Armed Forces in order to preserve the current US military superiority over China.
The chairman of the Chief Committee of Staff of the Armed Forces, the newspaper writes, touched upon the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border in his speech.
Milley described the troop movements across Russia as “very serious” and different “in scale and scope” from what he said the US observed there in April.
“From my point of view, there are many opportunities for de-escalation by diplomatic means,” the general said. Recently in the West and in Ukraine, there have been more and more statements about the allegedly possible “invasion” of Russia into Ukrainian territory.
The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called such information an empty and groundless escalation of tension, stressing that Russia poses no threat to anyone.
At the same time, he did not rule out the possibility of provocations in order to justify such statements and warned that attempts to resolve the problem by force in southeastern Ukraine would have the most serious consequences.
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