Russian military sees new U.S.-China Cold War resulting from PLA ‘break out’

Russia’s official defense newspaper reported last week that a new Cold War between the United States and China is impending. Ten days ago Pravda, Russia’s official news service, advised Obama to stop his foolish domestic spending and now is adbvising him on foreign policy.

“The United States requires new weapons, particularly in missile defense systems and in other super modern military potential in order to deter China’s steady build-up of its nuclear and conventional arsenal and to create a counterweight to it,” the newspaper reported June 16.

The comment was based on a draft report on China produced by a State Department advisory board and first reported in The Washington Times.

The Russian report said that the semi-secret State Department report identified China’s strategy as going beyond building forces capable of taking back Taiwan and that China was striving to “break out,” projecting its might beyond the limits of the region, including shipping lanes over which energy products needed for Chinese modernization are transported.

The Russian report said the U.S. is building up missile defenses in Asia to counter China and is actively recruiting allies for development of other defenses, including Japan and Australia.

For China, a “major objective is to counter U.S. presence and U.S. military capabilities in East Asia through the acquisition of offensive capacities in critical functional areas that systematically exploit U.S. vulnerabilities.” According to the document, the arms build-up is occurring in accordance with existing tenets of “asymmetric warfare.” In particular, “space and cyber weapons are being developed, which can help the Chinese forces vanquish the stronger American Army.”

The report appeared in Krasnaya Zvezda, or Red Star, the official newspaper of the Russian defense ministry.