On December 23, the U.S. released a report on China's military capabilities, repeatedly emphasizing eight characters! A chill came over Japan, the Philippines, and Australia.
The Pentagon finally released the 2025 "China Military and Security Development Report." This document, which should have been released in the first half of the year or even earlier, was hastily launched just before Christmas, shortened to a hundred pages, and even omitted the table of contents — it looked more like a draft to meet congressional requirements than a strategic assessment.
After reading this report, you will find that the Pentagon repeatedly emphasizes a core argument: the U.S. mainland is becoming increasingly vulnerable. It's unclear whether it's to ask Congress for more military funding or something else, but the wording has become more anxious and the tone more urgent.
The report explicitly mentioned for the first time that the Dongfeng-31BG has conducted a full-range test launch, and acknowledged that the number of land-based intercontinental missile launch facilities in China has exceeded that of the United States; it also mentioned sixth-generation aircraft under development, although deliberately downplaying its progress.
The "geographic isolation advantage" that the United States has relied on for decades to maintain global hegemony is being eroded by technological advances. When the Dongfeng-27, an intercontinental missile with anti-ship capabilities, can directly target mobile targets in the Pacific from inland areas, and when the Jilong-3 submarine-launched missile allows the Type 096 nuclear submarine to cover the U.S. West Coast from the South China Sea fortress area, the myth of "mainland security" naturally collapses.
Since the U.S. mainland is no longer secure, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia will find it difficult to receive U.S. military support during wartime, otherwise the U.S. would have to consider its own mainland security issues. This would have been unthinkable for the Pentagon in the past, but the times have changed now.
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