President Trump Rebuilding U.S. Missile Power to Defeat China

The Wuhan Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has brought into sharp focus the threat China poses not only to the United States but to the free world. While China’s actions regarding the outbreak of COVID-19 are extremely serious, the China threat extends far beyond China’s deception and malfeasance about the Wuhan virus.

China’s massive military buildup and expansionism in the South China Sea – and beyond – is now clearer than ever. Much of this Chinese military buildup involves massive numbers and types of new missiles.

Unfortunately, as noted by Reuters in a Special Report, the “United States has largely stood by in recent decades as China dramatically expanded its military firepower.” However, now – having boldly – and strategically – shed the constraints of the Cold War-era INF arms control treaty last year, “the Trump administration is planning to deploy long-range, ground-launched cruise missiles in the Asia-Pacific region.”

In a special series last year, Reuters reported that:

While the U.S. was distracted by almost two decades of war in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the PLA had built a missile force designed to attack the aircraft carriers, other surface warships and network of bases that form the backbone of American power in Asia. Over that period, Chinese shipyards built the world’s biggest navy, which is now capable of dominating the country’s coastal waters and keeping U.S. forces at bay.

Thankfully, President Trump and his defense team understand this threat and are fully engaged to counter it. According to Reuters:

The U.S. moves are aimed at countering China’s overwhelming advantage in land-based cruise and ballistic missiles. The Pentagon also intends to dial back China’s lead in what strategists refer to as the “range war.” The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China’s military, has built up a huge force of missiles that mostly outrange those of the U.S. and its regional allies, according to senior U.S. commanders and strategic advisers to the Pentagon, who have been warning that China holds a clear advantage in these weapons.

And, in a radical shift in tactics, the Marines will join forces with the U.S. Navy in attacking an enemy’s warships. Small and mobile units of U.S. Marines armed with anti-ship missiles will become ship killers.

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