美国大西洋月刊文章: 中国可能很快就会成为雄踞亚洲的军事力量。中国正在赶上甚至超过美国在东亚的军事力量。

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/05/china-military-size-power-asia-pacific/673933/

China Could Soon Be the Dominant Military Power in Asia

Preserving Pacific alliances will require America to step up its commitments.

By Michael Schuman

 

EVER since the defeat of japan in World War II nearly 80 years ago, the United States has been the preeminent military power in East Asia. Today China is on the verge of matching or even eclipsing the U.S. military’s presence in the region, having marshaled its newly acquired wealth and technological prowess to expand the scale and capabilities of its armed forces.

The military balance between the U.S. and China in Asia is “very delicate and trending in an unfavorable direction in this decade for the U.S. and its allies,” Elbridge Colby, a co-founder of the Marathon Initiative, a policy-research organization, and a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense, told me. “We should regard ourselves in a dead-heat race against an incredibly formidable competitor and take nothing for granted.”