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Atlantic Council - Credibly Deterring China X

29 Nov 2021

HEINRICHS Xi Jinping—general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for the indefinite future—has consistently expressed the PRC’s intent to replace the United States as the global leader.1 The PRC’s behavior is in line with General Secretary Xi’s stated intent: exploiting the free and. [...] The commander submitted that report willing to fight and win if US deterrence fails, and that it and concluded, “[t]he greatest danger to the future of the is moving to do so quickly, the more effectively it will be United States continues to be an erosion of conventional able to complicate the PRC’s calculations and uphold deterrence.” The report reiterates Admiral Davidson’s deterrence. [...] The United States must take albeit modest-in-number, missile attack from the PRC, full advantage of this timely development.13 especially considering the uncertainty about the ability of the United States to sufficiently control the escalation of Prioritizing what is necessary for assuring allies should a war that begins in the Indo-Pacific theater. [...] It was meant seriously consider the great potential of the SLCM-N in to adapt the US nuclear deterrent to disabuse Russia of the China context, both for deterrence of China and for the notion that it could escalate a conventional conflict to bolstering assurance of US allies. [...] PDF ISSUE BRIEF Credibly Deterring China The United States is right to focus its national defense About the Author strategy to deter the PRC but, given the high-stakes nature of the contest between the PRC and the United Rebeccah L.
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