Daqiwei, Westwood thought for a long time... The arms race can be regarded as the most direct strength confrontation between countries except wars. Before the outbreak of the "China-US Cold War", that is, after the Fourth India-Pakistan War in the past year, the arms race between China and the United States was already in full swing. It can be said that before the Peninsula War, the United States has always been in the leading position. Although China has advantages in several technologies, it is difficult to pose a direct challenge to the United States due to the limitations of basic technical strength.

After the Half-Ukraine War, the situation changed. The Chinese army defeated the US army and made the most successful advertisement for "Made in China". China captured cities and land in the international arms market, surpassing the United States in one fell swoop, becoming the world's largest arms exporter. The huge returns brought by the huge arms trade provided the most powerful driving force for China's military industry.

Although the United States has maintained most of the traditional market by increasing research and development investment, reducing arms prices, increasing export levels, etc., after the Japanese War, China's arms sales far exceeded the United States, and the global sales of only four of them exceeded those of the thugs and persuading them $100 million, almost three times the US arms sales. At this point, the weapons and equipment sold by China are not only of high quality and low price, but also have very advanced performance, and some even exceed the standard equipment of the US military.

Arms sales can best prove the pros and cons of arms race.

Over the years, the United States has changed from a leader to a catching up, while China is expanding its lead.

It’s not that Westwood doesn’t want to expand arms exports. After all, the support of the arms group is of great significance to the Democratic Party, but the arms race requires not only the investment of arms dealers, but also the investment of the country.

After several years of Cold War with the Soviet Union, although the United States has finally had a last laugh, it has also encountered many

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It can even be said that the global financial crisis triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis in two years and the US financial crisis that broke out in the year were inevitably related to the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union. During the Clinton administration, the United States obtained nearly 0 years of rapid development opportunities, but the rapid development largely paid for the legacy of the Cold War. It did not really benefit the American economy. During the Bush administration, the United States was involved in two large-scale regional wars. It squandered the wealth left by the Clinton administration, and had to blow up the financial bubble and use the money of investors around the world to pay for the US war. It eventually triggered a global financial crisis and put the United States on the road of recession.

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union has the greatest influence on the arms race.

The Soviet Union was dragged down by the arms race, and the United States was left dead by the arms race.

In a comprehensive arms race with China, does the United States have a hope of winning?

It’s not Westwood’s pessimism, but China is not the Soviet Union.

The greed nature of polar bears is largely not a loss to the United States, but to a crazy expansion. Although China's performance in recent years is no worse than that of the Soviet Union, China's "expansion" is essentially different from the expansion of the Soviet Union. Strictly speaking, China's long wars that China has fought in the century are basically irrelevant to expansion. Apart from the recovery of the Diaoyu Islands, the Nansha Islands and southern Tibet, China has not gained new territorial and territorial waters in the war. From the starting point, even if China hopes to enhance its international influence through war, it has never hoped to gain more living space through war, and it only improves the surrounding environment according to national development requirements.

In terms of military ideas closely related to the arms race, China is also essentially different from the former Soviet Union.

"During the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union." Even in the era of Brezhnev, the Soviet Union was unable to surpass the United States in military technology, nor did it lead the arms race. Except for some theoretically powerful technologies that are better than the United States, they basically followed the United States. For example, the "strategic rocket, that is, strategic ballistic missile, which Khrushchev highly praised, does not have any practical value except for threatening the United States; for example, the world's largest "Typhoon"-class strategic nuclear submarine, except for the largest size, has much worse performance than the "Ohio" class of the United States; for example, the magical series of tanks, except for large-scale warfares.

In addition to the easy-to-build construction, it is not the opponent of the main battle tanks of the United States. Overall, the biggest problem of the Soviet Union was that he had always wanted to fight a world war with the United States and focused all his energy on the world war. Facts have proved that under mutual guarantee of destruction, the possibility of a world war was almost zero. For this reason, the Soviet Union not only developed many weapons and equipment that could not adapt to high-tech local wars, but also made serious mistakes in strategic decision-making. In order to drag down the Soviet Union, US President Reagan only relied on a few fake intelligence to make the Soviet Union believe in the "Star Wars" and spent countless national strength to compete with the United States on a battlefield that did not exist at all.

Many facts can prove that China has no intention of fighting a world war with the United States at all, at least it has not thought of fighting a world war with the United States in the foreseeable future. Although China and the United States’ strategic defense systems are becoming more and more advanced and are getting closer to the idea of ​​“Star Wars”, within decades, the strategic defense system can only deal with second-rate nuclear countries at most, and it is impossible to have the ability to connect with a first-class power. China has not competed with the United States for the number of nuclear weapons, and has made many nuclear warheads and combined with advanced penetration technology, it can fully tear apart the US’s national missile defense system. In the basic strategy

When the ranks are not broken, it is impossible for China and the United States to openly fight against Gan'er-Kanjiu China pays more attention to winning local wars, especially in special circumstances, defeating certain second-rate countries. This basic policy determines that China will not engage in a face-to-face arms race with the United States, but will compete with the United States through third parties for military technology. If you win, China will be able to gain immeasurable benefits from it; if you lose, it will not directly lose to the United States. More importantly, the indirect arms race does not need to directly compete with the United States for military strength, which allows China to concentrate its efforts to develop certain key military technologies with limited resources. It will not consume too much national strength in the arms race. Instead, it can promote arms through the winning local war.

In an arms race with the Soviet Union, the United States is dangerous to win.

In an arms race with China, whether the United States can win is a question.

After thinking for a long time, Westwood asked the secretary to send away the guests waiting outside and called Brudering over.

"General Duqiwei's analysis is very realistic." Brudering said after listening to the president's story, "Strictly speaking, Du Qiwei is not a soldier in the sense of chanting. He has participated in the Peninsula War. He is very clear about China's military strength and China's military policy. India cannot afford to lose the next war, and we cannot let India lose the next war. Large-scale military aid is just one of them. If India wants to win the next war, at least it can tie with China, we have to speed up the development of key technologies. We strive to catch up with China's progress within a few years."

"The problem is, the arms race is too expensive."

Brudering sighed and said, "That's true. Now the economy has just entered a normal stage of development. If we focus our strength on the arms race, we are likely to lose to China economically, which will have a much more serious impact on us than India's loss of war. There are two ways to increase investment: one is to clarify the development direction, concentrate our efforts to overcome key technologies, and avoid spending too much financial resources in secondary fields; the other is to invite other countries to share research and development funds, reduce technical risks, and achieve the goal of saving development costs. If we want to surpass China in several key technologies as soon as possible, we must take two approaches at the same time. The former can involve several major arms dealers and major national laboratories, and focus on strengthening the development of basic technologies. The latter can win over allies like the United Kingdom and Australia, and of course, in some non-core technology fields, India can also be invited to participate."

Westwood nodded slightly and said, "I think so too, but I don't know if these countries will agree."

"As long as we agree to share patent technology, the problem is not very big."

“If India is involved, with India’s technical strength

"It is undeniable that India's technical foundation is very weak, which is the basic condition for winning over India."

Westwood frowned.

"India does not have technology, and it is definitely eager to get technology. If we consider what we like, India will naturally not refuse. The most important thing is that India will not put forward too high requirements, and we do not need to consider letting India participate in the development of core technologies. Of course, even if India puts forward such requirements, we can reject it on the grounds that India's weak technical foundation is weak. There is no need to make a decision directly, just promise to wait for India's basic technology to make a breakthrough and then carry out cooperative development. Any basic technology will take years, or even decades, from development to maturity. No matter whether India can withstand China's military pressure in a few years, it may not have the ability or the opportunity to participate in the development of basic technologies."

"Who are you …"

"India has needs and a certain economic foundation, so it is definitely the best partner."

Westwood immediately laughed.

"We can also include technical cooperation in the scope of assistance, so that India can willingly contribute money and efforts."

"It's true, Rurajapani is in need of such help."

"Rulaghapani needs it, and those who want to change the political landscape and social structure of India, too. Any high-tech research requires huge investment. Only companies with real strength and capital can participate, and those small capitalists who get rich overnight don't even have the opportunity to get involved."

"This has also become an opportunity to win over the traditional Indian aristocratic class."

Brudering nodded and said, "With several factors combined, we must increase relevant investment even if we do not consider the arms race.

Since we can take this opportunity to balance China's technological advantages, why not do it?"

"You are right. If that's the case, we have to reissue the India-to-India aid plan."

"The domestic legislative issues must be resolved as soon as possible."

Westwood was stunned for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "I will meet with representatives of both houses of parliament as soon as possible, and then meet with representatives of several major lobby groups. This is not only helping India, but also helping companies on the verge of bankruptcy and millions of workers. There should not be much problem."
Chapter completed!