Commentary
To ensure the survival of its oppressive dictatorship, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is busy building the world’s most powerful military force—on Earth and in space—to achieve a new global hegemony under which it plans to set the rules that determine prosperity and security.
The CCP’s path to hegemony has always depended on its ability to manipulate the democracies and exploit their weaknesses and mistakes.
Since World War II, America’s ability to deter wars or win them has rested mainly on achieving air superiority over its enemies.
But that ability is under threat as the number of Lockheed Martin F-22A “Raptor” heavy fifth-generation air superiority fighters diminishes, while the number of China’s fifth-generation fighters is increasing, pointing to a period of strategic vulnerability for the United States in the mid-2020s.
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