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LOTS LOTS OF $$$ TO BE GOTTEN FOR FABRICATORS OF FALSE NEWS , BUT MUST BE ON CHINA TO MAKE CHINA LOOK BAD
TRUTH GOT NUTHING BUT NUTHING TO DO WITH GOOD GOOD FAKE NEWS
House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it to us, but good 'information ops' when we want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide
MARCUS STANLEY
SEP 11, 2024
Since at least 2016, foreign interference in American elections and civil society have become central to American political discourse. The issue is taken extremely seriously by the U.S. government, which has levied sanctions and called out foreign adversaries for sowing “discord and chaos” through their propaganda efforts.
But apparently Washington takes a different view when it comes to American propaganda operations in foreign countries. On Monday, the House passed HR 1157, the “Countering the PRC Malign Influence Fund,” by a bipartisan 351-36 majority. This legislation authorizes more than $1.6 billion for the State Department and USAID over the next five years to, among other purposes, subsidize media and civil society sources around the world that counter Chinese “malign influence” globally.
That’s a massive spend — about twice, for example, the annual operating expenditure of CNN. If passed into law it would also represent a large increase in federal spending on international influence operations. While it’s hard to total all of the spending on U.S. influence operations across agencies, the main coordinating body for U.S. information efforts, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), has an annual budget of less than $100 million.
There is obviously no issue with the U.S. government presenting its own public view of what China is doing around the world, and doing so as forcefully as needed. But this bill goes beyond that by subsidizing “independent media and civil society” and other information operations in foreign countries. Indeed, this is already routine. The Global Engagement Center, which will likely play a strong role in implementing the bill, spends more than half its budget on such grants, and USAID, which will also play a lead role, makes grants to foreign media and civil society organizations a key part of its efforts. HR 1157 would supercharge these programs.
Crucially, HR 1157 doesn’t seem to contain any requirement that U.S. government financing to foreign media be made transparent to citizens of foreign countries (although there is a requirement to report grants to certain U.S. congressional committees). Thus, it’s possible that the program could in some cases be used to subsidize covert anti-Chinese messaging in a manner similar to the way Russia is accused of covertly funding anti-Ukrainian messaging by U.S. media influencers.
Such anti-Chinese messaging could cover a wide range of bread-and-butter political issues in foreign countries. The definition of “malign influence” in the bill is extremely broad. For example, program funds could support any effort to highlight the “negative impact” of Chinese economic and infrastructure investment in a foreign country. Or it could fund political messaging against Chinese contractors involved in building a port, road, or hospital, for example as part of Beijing’s globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative.
Because some dimensions of U.S. information operations could be classified, it can be difficult to get a complete picture of the full range of what they look like on the ground. But a 2021 “vision document” on psychological operations and civil affairs from the First Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg gives a fascinating glimpse.
The document provides a case study (or “competition vignette”) of what an integrated effort to counter Chinese influence could look like in the fictional African country of Naruvu. In the vignette, members of a Special Forces Civil Affairs team spot a billboard with a picture of a port and Chinese characters. Quickly determining that the Chinese are investing in a new deep-water port in Naruvu, the 8th Psyop Group at Fort Bragg’s Information Warfare Center (IWC) works with local and U.S. government partners to immediately develop an influence campaign to “discredit Chinese activities.”
The influence campaign “empowered IWTF [Information Warfare Task Force], in coordination with the JIIM [local and U.S. government partners] to inflame long-standing friction between Naruvian workers and Chinese corporations. Within days, protests supported by the CFT’s ODA [Special Forces Operations Detachment Alpha], erupted around Chinese business headquarters and their embassy in Ajuba. Simultaneously, the IWC-led social media campaign illuminated the controversy.”
Faced with a combined propaganda campaign and intense labor unrest, the Chinese company is forced to back down from its planned port. (Although the vignette continues to an even more Hollywood-ready ending in which U.S. special forces break into the construction company’s offices, confiscate blueprints for the port, and discover that it is actually a Chinese plot to emplace long-range missiles in Naruvu to threaten U.S. Atlantic shipping).
This case study illustrates the extremes information warfare could reach. But of course it is fictional, and most operations funded to counter Chinese influence will be far more mundane and less cinematic. Indeed, some will probably look similar to the activities the U.S. government has bitterly condemned when foreign governments financed them in the U.S. civil society space, such as making social media buys or funding organizations sympathetic to Washington’s perspective.
But it’s still worth thinking about the consequences of such efforts. They are of course likely to make U.S. protests against similar foreign government activities look hypocritical. Beyond that, pumping a flood of potentially undisclosed U.S. government money into anti-Chinese messaging worldwide could backfire by making any organic opposition to Chinese influence appear to be covertly funded U.S. government propaganda rather than genuine expressions of local concern.
As the publics in many nations are likely to be suspicious of U.S. as well as Chinese involvement in their internal affairs, this could easily discredit genuine grassroots opposition to Chinese influence. A historical example is Washington’s funding of Russian civil society groups that criticized the integrity of Russia’s 2011 parliamentary elections. This backfired by allowing Putin to depict the opposition as tools in a U.S. plot and resulted in sharp restrictions on U.S. activity in Russia, including the expulsion of USAID.
Another problem raised by the proposed legislation is the possibility that anti-Chinese propaganda financed by this program will flow back into the American media space and influence American audiences, without any disclosure of its initial source of funding. Protections against U.S. government targeting of domestic audiences are already weak, and what protections do exist are almost impossible to enforce in a networked world where information in other countries is just a click away from U.S. audiences.
It’s easy to imagine U.S.-funded foreign media being used as evidence in domestic debates about China’s international role, or even to attack U.S. voices that advocate for a different view of China that is propagated by a hawkish U.S. government. During the Trump presidency, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), a likely recipient of many of these funds, supported attacks on U.S. critics of Trump’s Iran policy. More recently, congressional conservatives have claimed the GEC has advocated for censorship of conservative voices who disagree with Biden’s foreign policies.
The overwhelming bipartisan majority for HR 1157 is a snapshot of a culture in Washington that seems not to see the risk to U.S. values and interests when we engage in the same covert activities that we criticize in other countries.
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And this as well.
More than enuff $$$ to entice the sinking of Chinese subs
in addition to slavery of Uyghers in Xinjiang together with genocide and sales of Uyghers body parts to the world
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8 hours agoSince the beginning of this year, the US media has sunk Chinese submarines four times, twice in the Yellow Sea and once in the Taiwan Strait. They sank in funny areas in front of home. This time it sank directly at home. Next time it should be the swimming pool.
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6 hours ago (edited)Ha ha! Shen in Wuchang? Might as well write about the sinking in the Xinjiang desert!
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8 hours agoAs soon as the 1.6 billion dollar bounty came out, of course everyone started to slander and smear him, and there was a reward! Ha ha !
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8 hours agoAmerican experts definitely don’t know where Wuchang is.
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8 hours agoWuhan builds a nuclear submarine...why doesn't it build an aircraft carrier in the Great Lakes
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8 hours agoWhat a shame, America, it’s fake news again!
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8 hours agoThis kind of rumor is not unusual. Aren’t all the 20 million ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, China, already genocide? The remaining millions have also been imprisoned in concentration camps. Nowadays, the few you see on the streets of Xinjiang The ethnic groups are all played by Han extras. Do you believe it? Believe it or not, I believe it. Didn’t Pompeo say, we cheat, we lie, we steal, and we are proud of it. Americans are so proud, what else can the big wild cat say? Stop talking, let Americans be proud again.
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The Western media, which used to be held up as the arbiter of objective and unbiased news reports 2 generations ago, are now completely bought over and in cahoots with the powers that be. Fake news, fabricated lies, biased commentaries are now the order of the day, whether from the right (Fox, ) or left (CNN, NYT, even BBC).
In this era of US-led anti-China psyop, the western media have been roped in to generate anti-Chinese fake news (genocide in Xinjiang, submarines capsizing, collapsing economy, etc). Some of our ACS posters have taken it in hook, line and sinker and they simple reproduce the garbage here.
In this era of US-led anti-China psyop, the western media have been roped in to generate anti-Chinese fake news (genocide in Xinjiang, submarines capsizing, collapsing economy, etc). Some of our ACS posters have taken it in hook, line and sinker and they simple reproduce the garbage here.
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Seawolf-Class Submarine Slammed Into Underwater Mountain Near China
U.S. Navy Seawolf-Class Submarine
What You Need to Know: The USS Connecticut, one of three advanced Seawolf-class submarines in the U.S. Navy, suffered a major accident in 2021, reportedly crashing into an undersea mountain near China’s Hainan Island.
Seawolf-Class Submarine
-The Seawolf-class is known for its cutting-edge capabilities, making its absence from the fleet until 2026 a significant loss.
-While the official story points to an uncharted seamount, advanced Chinese anti-submarine warfare (ASW) technologies, including 6G terahertz tracking, lasers, and unmanned underwater vehicles, could have played a role.
-With these sophisticated detection and ASW systems, China may be challenging U.S. dominance in critical regions like the South China Sea.
How the USS Connecticut Submarine Was Taken Out of Action Near China’s Naval Base
The USS Connecticut is one of only three Seawolf-class submarines that the U.S. Navy operates. They are among the most advanced submarines in the world. Designed in the 1980s and deployed in the 1990s, the Seawolf was to be one of the replacements for aging Los Angeles-class attack subs. Incorporating some of the most sophisticated surveillance technology, the Seawolf class was built to be much more than just another attack submarine.
The only problem was that the Seawolf class is extraordinarily expensive. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Congress did not see the need to fund the Seawolf program as first intended.
As a result, only a few of these incredible submarines were acquired by the Navy. Despite being more than 20 years old, the Seawolf-class continues to be among the most advanced subs in the world. Whenever they are deployed, they help tip the balance of engagement in America’s favor.
The Seawolfs are especially good at operating in distant, hostile environments such as the Arctic, and they have an incredible mission success rate. Whenever one of these systems leaves service for any period of time, their loss creates a significant capabilities gap for the Navy.
That’s why it was a crisis for the Navy when, in 2021, the USS Connecticut was taken out of action after supposedly crashing into an underwater mountain along the bottom of the relatively shallow South China Sea.
Three years ago, the Connecticut was prowling the depths of that sea, operating very near to the advanced Chinese naval submarine base on Hainan Island.
What was the USS Connecticut Doing?
The Chinese facility on Hainan Island is believed to be one of the most sophisticated naval facilities in the world – certainly China’s most advanced. It is a surveillance bonanza for the United States to get close to that secretive facility and spy on it, which might well be what the Connecticut was doing.
Submarine U.S. Navy
There was some controversy surrounding the Connecticut incident. The Navy’s official story was that the sub was transiting through international waters and was not doing anything questionable, despite being near the Chinese facility.
The Chinese, meanwhile, insisted that the Connecticut was engaged in “irresponsible” behavior and suggested, without proof, that the Connecticut could have leaked radioactive materials into the South China Sea.
The Connecticut will not be back at sea until at least 2026.
But what happened?
In cases like this, it is unlikely that, if anything untoward did occur, the public would ever learn about it – at least not for several decades. So, for the sake of this piece, let’s say that the Navy’s official story for what happened is the most likely to be true.
USS Connecticut: Looking At What COULD Have Occurred:
With that said, given how important America’s submarine fleet is, and how shabby America’s shipyards have become, let’s explore some alternatives. Keep in mind, we are not saying these happened or there is any evidence, but let us explore some possibilities.
China’s military has developed a robust anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capability designed to stunt the U.S. Navy’s power projection into regions of the world that Beijing covets, such as the South and East China Seas as well as the Taiwan Strait. This means that the Americans will have to rely more heavily on their submarine fleet.
China’s navy understands this, so Beijing is now attempting to devise capabilities with which to mitigate the real threat that America’s submarines pose to China’s navy. China has turned to truly sophisticated technologies and techniques for hunting American submarines.
1. 6G Terahertz Tracking Plus Advanced Underwater Drones
Last year, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter announced they had developed a “highly sensitive submarine detection system that can detect even the faintest traces of advanced submarines from significant distances.”
Thanks to China’s investment in 6G communications technology, their scientists claim they have figured out how to use the terahertz frequency, which is the range between microwave and infrared radiation. China further claims a working application for this technology.
Jimmy Carter Seawolf-Class Submarine
Marrying unmanned underwater vehicles to this detection method would give China significant advantages in deterring America’s submarine threat. And China’s navy has already developed extra-large (XL) UUV systems.
According to the Asia Times’ Gabriel Honrada, satellite imagery confirmed that two of China’s XLUUVs are at the Sanya Naval Base on Hainan Island.
One of the XLUUV platforms docked at Sanya is believed to be connected to the HSU-001 UUV, which carries smaller UUVs and can deploy undersea mines. In Honrada’s assessment, this XLUUV can actively search and track “enemy submarines without endangering [Chinese] manned surface vessels or submarines.”
If these platforms were already operating out of Sanya, it is possible that the Connecticut was attempting to spy on the base from nearby international waters, was detected, chased away by this system, and ultimately, accidentally, crashed into a nearby seamount in its haste to avoid detection from this next-generation system.
2. Using Lasers to Track US Submarines
In 2021, the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics said it had tested lasers that can detect objects more than 160 meters (525 feet) beneath the water. According to Michael Peck, that’s twice as deep as current equipment. Using green- and blue-beamed lasers, Chinese scientists at the institute said they had proved that the system could work. In turn, the Chinese team claimed it built a finely tuned sensor to detect underwater movement from a submarine.
More important, though, the Chinese have said for years they have a satellite that carries aboard it a laser emitter that can be used to track American submarines when they are submerged. There is some reason to believe they have such technology.
Could any of this be a reason for Connecticut's troubles? Hard to say...
3. Synthetic Aperture Radar and Their Hypersonic Torpedo
China has spent the last several years deploying multiple of its Yaogan electronic-reconnaissance satellites into Earth orbit. These satellites represent a major step forward for China’s anti-submarine-warfare capabilities. They employ what is known as a Synthetic Aperture Radar system.
The Yaogan system is most akin to the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Surveillance System, which is used to intercept radio signals from the ground and then use those signals to triangulate the locations of warships at sea. The Chinese are so protective of the Yaogan satellite constellation that they have deployed a co-orbital “bodyguard” satellite to better defend it from any potential U.S. anti-satellite weapon attack.
Two years ago, Li Pengfei of the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha announced that his team of researchers had developed a “cross-medium” supersonic weapon that is launched into the air, travels at Mach 2.5, and dives into the ocean during its terminal phase, becoming a torpedo. Li boasted that “no existing shipboard defense can protect against” this weapon.
This untested trans-medium supersonic weapon, when married to the next-generation capabilities of any of the aforementioned tracking systems, could spell doom for a successfully targeted American submarine.
Overcoming the Threat
This leaves the Navy in a pickle. Luckily, it seems as though the Chinese navy is not as advanced in their ability to roll back the American submarine threat from their shores as their A2/AD systems are at stopping America’s surface fleet. China is clearly dedicated to cutting off the U.S. Navy’s access to regions of the Indo-Pacific that Beijing aims to control.
The Pentagon must prepare to counter these new threats to their submarine fleet.
The Connecticut is out of commission for at least another two years. That was an accident in peacetime, whether or not it was the result of hostile action by Chinese forces operating out of Hainan Island.
Just imagine what lengths China will go to in order to prevent the U.S. Navy from deploying its otherwise lethal submarines into contested areas such as the South and East China Seas or the Taiwan Strait during an actual war, which is coming much sooner than people realize. Navy planners and Pentagon acquisitions specialists need to develop countermeasures to keep American submarines lethal against China's growing underwater A2/AD threat.
About the Author
Brandon J. Weichert, a National Interest national security analyst, is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, the Asia Times, and The-Pipeline. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life, and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy. His next book, A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine, is due October 22 from Encounter Books. Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
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Seawolf-Class Submarine Slammed Into Underwater Mountain Near China
U.S. Navy Seawolf-Class Submarine
What You Need to Know: The USS Connecticut, one of three advanced Seawolf-class submarines in the U.S. Navy, suffered a major accident in 2021, reportedly crashing into an undersea mountain near China’s Hainan Island.
Seawolf-Class Submarine
-The Seawolf-class is known for its cutting-edge capabilities, making its absence from the fleet until 2026 a significant loss.
-While the official story points to an uncharted seamount, advanced Chinese anti-submarine warfare (ASW) technologies, including 6G terahertz tracking, lasers, and unmanned underwater vehicles, could have played a role.
-With these sophisticated detection and ASW systems, China may be challenging U.S. dominance in critical regions like the South China Sea.
How the USS Connecticut Submarine Was Taken Out of Action Near China’s Naval Base
The USS Connecticut is one of only three Seawolf-class submarines that the U.S. Navy operates. They are among the most advanced submarines in the world. Designed in the 1980s and deployed in the 1990s, the Seawolf was to be one of the replacements for aging Los Angeles-class attack subs. Incorporating some of the most sophisticated surveillance technology, the Seawolf class was built to be much more than just another attack submarine.
The only problem was that the Seawolf class is extraordinarily expensive. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Congress did not see the need to fund the Seawolf program as first intended.
As a result, only a few of these incredible submarines were acquired by the Navy. Despite being more than 20 years old, the Seawolf-class continues to be among the most advanced subs in the world. Whenever they are deployed, they help tip the balance of engagement in America’s favor.
The Seawolfs are especially good at operating in distant, hostile environments such as the Arctic, and they have an incredible mission success rate. Whenever one of these systems leaves service for any period of time, their loss creates a significant capabilities gap for the Navy.
That’s why it was a crisis for the Navy when, in 2021, the USS Connecticut was taken out of action after supposedly crashing into an underwater mountain along the bottom of the relatively shallow South China Sea.
Three years ago, the Connecticut was prowling the depths of that sea, operating very near to the advanced Chinese naval submarine base on Hainan Island.
What was the USS Connecticut Doing?
The Chinese facility on Hainan Island is believed to be one of the most sophisticated naval facilities in the world – certainly China’s most advanced. It is a surveillance bonanza for the United States to get close to that secretive facility and spy on it, which might well be what the Connecticut was doing.
Submarine U.S. Navy
There was some controversy surrounding the Connecticut incident. The Navy’s official story was that the sub was transiting through international waters and was not doing anything questionable, despite being near the Chinese facility.
The Chinese, meanwhile, insisted that the Connecticut was engaged in “irresponsible” behavior and suggested, without proof, that the Connecticut could have leaked radioactive materials into the South China Sea.
The Connecticut will not be back at sea until at least 2026.
But what happened?
In cases like this, it is unlikely that, if anything untoward did occur, the public would ever learn about it – at least not for several decades. So, for the sake of this piece, let’s say that the Navy’s official story for what happened is the most likely to be true.
USS Connecticut: Looking At What COULD Have Occurred:
With that said, given how important America’s submarine fleet is, and how shabby America’s shipyards have become, let’s explore some alternatives. Keep in mind, we are not saying these happened or there is any evidence, but let us explore some possibilities.
China’s military has developed a robust anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capability designed to stunt the U.S. Navy’s power projection into regions of the world that Beijing covets, such as the South and East China Seas as well as the Taiwan Strait. This means that the Americans will have to rely more heavily on their submarine fleet.
China’s navy understands this, so Beijing is now attempting to devise capabilities with which to mitigate the real threat that America’s submarines pose to China’s navy. China has turned to truly sophisticated technologies and techniques for hunting American submarines.
1. 6G Terahertz Tracking Plus Advanced Underwater Drones
Last year, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter announced they had developed a “highly sensitive submarine detection system that can detect even the faintest traces of advanced submarines from significant distances.”
Thanks to China’s investment in 6G communications technology, their scientists claim they have figured out how to use the terahertz frequency, which is the range between microwave and infrared radiation. China further claims a working application for this technology.
Jimmy Carter Seawolf-Class Submarine
Marrying unmanned underwater vehicles to this detection method would give China significant advantages in deterring America’s submarine threat. And China’s navy has already developed extra-large (XL) UUV systems.
According to the Asia Times’ Gabriel Honrada, satellite imagery confirmed that two of China’s XLUUVs are at the Sanya Naval Base on Hainan Island.
One of the XLUUV platforms docked at Sanya is believed to be connected to the HSU-001 UUV, which carries smaller UUVs and can deploy undersea mines. In Honrada’s assessment, this XLUUV can actively search and track “enemy submarines without endangering [Chinese] manned surface vessels or submarines.”
If these platforms were already operating out of Sanya, it is possible that the Connecticut was attempting to spy on the base from nearby international waters, was detected, chased away by this system, and ultimately, accidentally, crashed into a nearby seamount in its haste to avoid detection from this next-generation system.
2. Using Lasers to Track US Submarines
In 2021, the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics said it had tested lasers that can detect objects more than 160 meters (525 feet) beneath the water. According to Michael Peck, that’s twice as deep as current equipment. Using green- and blue-beamed lasers, Chinese scientists at the institute said they had proved that the system could work. In turn, the Chinese team claimed it built a finely tuned sensor to detect underwater movement from a submarine.
More important, though, the Chinese have said for years they have a satellite that carries aboard it a laser emitter that can be used to track American submarines when they are submerged. There is some reason to believe they have such technology.
Could any of this be a reason for Connecticut's troubles? Hard to say...
3. Synthetic Aperture Radar and Their Hypersonic Torpedo
China has spent the last several years deploying multiple of its Yaogan electronic-reconnaissance satellites into Earth orbit. These satellites represent a major step forward for China’s anti-submarine-warfare capabilities. They employ what is known as a Synthetic Aperture Radar system.
The Yaogan system is most akin to the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Surveillance System, which is used to intercept radio signals from the ground and then use those signals to triangulate the locations of warships at sea. The Chinese are so protective of the Yaogan satellite constellation that they have deployed a co-orbital “bodyguard” satellite to better defend it from any potential U.S. anti-satellite weapon attack.
Two years ago, Li Pengfei of the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha announced that his team of researchers had developed a “cross-medium” supersonic weapon that is launched into the air, travels at Mach 2.5, and dives into the ocean during its terminal phase, becoming a torpedo. Li boasted that “no existing shipboard defense can protect against” this weapon.
This untested trans-medium supersonic weapon, when married to the next-generation capabilities of any of the aforementioned tracking systems, could spell doom for a successfully targeted American submarine.
Overcoming the Threat
This leaves the Navy in a pickle. Luckily, it seems as though the Chinese navy is not as advanced in their ability to roll back the American submarine threat from their shores as their A2/AD systems are at stopping America’s surface fleet. China is clearly dedicated to cutting off the U.S. Navy’s access to regions of the Indo-Pacific that Beijing aims to control.
The Pentagon must prepare to counter these new threats to their submarine fleet.
The Connecticut is out of commission for at least another two years. That was an accident in peacetime, whether or not it was the result of hostile action by Chinese forces operating out of Hainan Island.
Just imagine what lengths China will go to in order to prevent the U.S. Navy from deploying its otherwise lethal submarines into contested areas such as the South and East China Seas or the Taiwan Strait during an actual war, which is coming much sooner than people realize. Navy planners and Pentagon acquisitions specialists need to develop countermeasures to keep American submarines lethal against China's growing underwater A2/AD threat.
About the Author
Brandon J. Weichert, a National Interest national security analyst, is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, the Asia Times, and The-Pipeline. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life, and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy. His next book, A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine, is due October 22 from Encounter Books. Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
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