U.S. assessment of China's military status

The rapidly developing in China's defense led the U.S. and its allies in Asia, "no less fragrant peace."

The sophistication of the weapons of the People's Liberation Army of China has far exceeded the expectations of the U.S. military, but Pentagon officials identified many of the modern weapons China is still in the stage "embryo."

Last July, China has officially run the test carrier Varyag after a long completion, the new page. This is a Soviet vessel was designed and produced, then is transferred to the Ukraine when the Soviet government collapsed. After that, Ukraine is not fully completed and the cost of operating the ship, should it fall into left open for years, before being acquired Beijing.

The first carrier in China after refurbishment.

Sources from Beijing said the country is implementing a new self-closing two other carriers. However, U.S. military officials identified said it was "deliberately misleading" in Beijing. Adm. Robert Willard, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, said the Chinese military could pursue the procurement plan or the initial preparation for the carrier itself, but to be quite long they last water line.

According to Pentagon estimates, although the ship Varyag was running out, but it can not fully operate. Accordingly, China can not build and deploy aircraft carriers operating in a few years.

In a report to the Congress, the Pentagon stressed China will likely send troops to Brazil to train skills and combat controls on aircraft carriers. "However, Brazil's limited capabilities in this area along with the inconsistency between the two sample carrier into question the viability of the plan," the report said.

After the aircraft carriers, stealth aircraft Thursday generation J-20 of the opinion that Beijing is upset.Although the cause is the attention to the Pentagon, but they sure J-20 can not work as expected before 2018. In addition, its stealth capabilities are also made many people suspect. During the test flight, J-20 was identified as the style of stealth aircraft, but Beijing did not disclose details of its properties to avoid detection.

According to the report, "China faces many obstacles since the implementation of J-20 production, including copyright issues as well as high-performance engine that this country can not produce" .

News agency Reuters to compare the United States has deployed stealth fighter F-117 Nighthawk (night hawk) 30 years ago, and the aircraft was withdrawn from the payroll from 2007, when cited reports of J-20 of the United States.

In addition, U.S. military officials believe that China can only become a military power with modern equipment in 2020. Beijing does not release the cost but said it will increase 12.7% for defense spending in 2011, while U.S. defense spending of more than 5,000 billion, excluding war costs.However, this costs the United States is likely to decrease in coming years, by many members of Congress are demanding cuts.

Dean Cheng, an expert on China's Washington, said the future progress of Beijing as improved anti-ballistic missile warships and aircraft carriers could affect the United States, when implementing the fleet on international waters near Chinese territory.

The recent aggressive moves by China in the South China Sea and increase military influence over Taiwan as well as promote the development of nuclear submarine ambitions prove that Beijing is pursuing. With economic power are rushing to China is quite capable of becoming a counterbalance to U.S. and other powers in the near future.