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A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.

Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.

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    2 days ago

    The US seems the only vountry with more corruption in military procurement than China.

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      Russia had whole warehouses in its inventory that only existed on paper. When they started their war they quickly found out.