Prediction For Change Of Guards In The Pacific By 2025

Beijing: Earlier in March, the top U.S. commanders in the Indo-Pacific and Pentagon officials gave testimony in Congress about the balance of U.S. and Chinese forces in the region.

Friday 24 March 2023 | 18:40

Staff Writer

Women comprise 4.5 per cent of the People’s Liberation Army. the principal military force of the People’s Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Photo: BBC

Beijing: Earlier in March, the top U.S. commanders in the Indo-Pacific and Pentagon officials gave testimony in Congress about the balance of U.S. and Chinese forces in the region.

Although the U.S. military and its allies still have the preponderance of equipment, the future doesn’t look quite as good.

Indeed by 2025, China, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), is expected to militarily outmatch U.S. forces in the region. Some of the numbers that they provided in the House Armed Services Committee hearing were alarming.