The world is seeing its most significant bolstering of military might since World War II, with countries boosting their budgets and increasing weapons manufacturing, experts told CNA on the first day of this year's Shangri-La Dialogue.
since World War II, with countries boosting their budgets, holding more joint military training, and increasing weapons manufacturing.
The war in Ukraine has made policymakers and defence chiefs more aware that inter-state conflict is not just a thing of the past. “The investments in infrastructure would've had to have happened years ago, and they didn’t. So there will be an element of asymmetry fundamentally in how the United States and China militarily compete.”Another aspect in which China outmuscles the US, is that China's conventional missile arsenal is substantially larger, said Mr Panda.
“The first reaction is that no pilot has ever been taught to fly that way. This is not safe behaviour. It's intentionally meant to create risk to the US and to other powers who claim to fly in international airspace in the South China Sea,” Mr Poling told CNA’s Asia Now. “China is expanding the size of its nuclear stockpile, largely out of a belief that conflict with the United States is more likely, and that Washington will behave more carefully if China has a nuclear force that is larger and more capable,” he said.
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