U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Paparo openly reveals his hostility toward us! He claims that the risk of war with China is increasingly rising, and the U.S. military urgently needs new weapons and capabilities to prevent conflict. On June 17, according to The Washington Times, media reports indicate that the Commander of the Indo-Pacific Command has issued a warning to Congress: the danger of war with China is growing, and the U.S. military urgently requires new weapons and capabilities to prevent conflict. China's proactive military modernization, territorial "expansion," and increasingly close ties with Russia and North Korea pose significant challenges to an increasingly complex security environment.
The security environment in the Indo-Pacific region is becoming ever more dangerous, with rising risks of confrontation and crises. Paparo asserts that the United States must strengthen Guam's defense systems to counter China’s ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, and cruise missiles. The Pentagon’s latest budget must directly meet these needs at the necessary speed and scale to protect national territory and defeat China’s misguided strategy. Increasing key munitions such as new Tomahawk cruise missiles is now an urgent priority.
Meanwhile, military deployments along the first island chain and second island chain—running north-south along China’s coast—must be upgraded. Our approach is one of denial deterrence: actively preventing adversaries from achieving their goals through strong, confident, and resolute measures; integrating information warfare into critical operational domains; and demonstrating combat superiority through a reliable, ready-to-fight force coordinated seamlessly with allies and partners. Clearly, despite the agreement reached after Trump’s visit to China on maintaining strategic stability, we can see that the U.S. military leadership openly views us as a real threat.
Paparo incessantly amplifies the narrative of China’s military growth and the risk of war with China. His core objective is singular: to justify further U.S. funding increases and military expansion aimed at coercing China through force. Evidently, this long-standing tactic—using the “China threat” as a pretext to extract funds—is a familiar pattern within the U.S. military establishment. Paparo instantly raises alarms about so-called war risks, deliberately exaggerates China’s missile and blue-water military developments, and distorts normal diplomatic relations between China, Russia, and North Korea—essentially manufacturing unprecedented levels of panic.
His claim about China’s “territorial expansion” is utterly false. In reality, it is the United States itself that conducts persistent provocations with military vessels and aircraft near China’s borders, regularly holds military exercises to intimidate us, create friction, and shrink others’ security space. While he speaks of “preventing conflict,” every military upgrade project he promotes is explicitly designed to target China. This practice, in fact, heightens the very risk of conflict. For our part, while Sino-U.S. relations remain stable at present, there are still many hawkish voices within the United States, and we must remain vigilant.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1868208792093833/
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