China’s Military Advantage Over US in Indo-Pacific Is ‘Alarming’: Defense Expert
China’s military maintains a sizable advantage over the United States in the Indo-Pacific theater, according to one defense expert.
Dakota Wood, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said that China’s military dwarfs that of the United States and would have the advantage of numerous land-based systems in a conflict.
“Numerically, it’s very concerning,” he said during an Oct. 18 interview with NTD, a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times. “As an example, we’ve got fewer than 300 ships in the U.S. Navy. Of those, 100 are at sea on any day. Of that 100, about 60 are in the western Pacific.”…