There is a “a giant sucking sound of energy-intensive manufacturing leaving the West and going to China,” Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. “With more than 2 million active military personnel, the People’s Liberation Army remains one of the world’s largest militaries, and its days of largely obsolescent equipment are in the past,” according to The Heritage Foundation’s 2024 Index of U.S. Military Strength. Recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal found that while the U.S. has about 1,000 more ground attack aircraft than China, the planes China has are almost entirely advanced or modern, while more than one-third of the U.S. planes are considered “old equipment.”
Author: Virginia Allen
Published at: 2025-06-03 21:34:23
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