The US "defense" budget is almost four times the Chinese "defense" budget, and the US has 800 foreign bases to China's 1. And for years, US wargames have consistently shown that the US would likely lose a war against China over Taiwan. Pelosi's trip was incredibly misguided and provocative. For background, see this interview with a "researcher on Chinese and Russian strategic military development who taught at the US Naval War College for twenty years" at https://jacobin.com/2022/08/us-china-taiwan-crisis-pelosi-visit-nuclear-war.
The US "defense" budget is almost four times the Chinese "defense" budget, and the US has 800 foreign bases to China's 1. And for years, US wargames have consistently shown that the US would likely lose a war against China over Taiwan. Pelosi's trip was incredibly misguided and provocative. For background, see this interview with a "researcher on Chinese and Russian strategic military development who taught at the US Naval War College for twenty years" at https://jacobin.com/2022/08/us-china-taiwan-crisis-pelosi-visit-nuclear-war.
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