French magazine L'Obs said that two newly published news stories about Chinese weapons will radically change the world's opinion of the rivalry between Beijing and Washington, to the point that the commander of the United States Army, General Mark Milley, announced, "We are witnessing one of the biggest shifts in geostrategic power." The world has never seen anything like it."
And the magazine explained in a report by Vincent Juffair that the first shock was when the Financial Times revealed on October 16 that the Chinese army had succeeded 3 months ago in orbiting at a low altitude around the Earth with a missile that exceeds the speed of sound 5 times, It is controlled remotely.
Has the world entered a second cold war?
This announcement stunned all employees on the planet - according to the magazine - firstly because China for the first time demonstrated its advantage over the United States and Russia in strategic technology, and secondly because a hypersonic missile could escape the anti-missile "shield" that has protected the United States for years. , especially since this American ballistic missile interceptor system is installed in Alaska, for the simple reason that the path of such intercontinental weapons passes through the North Pole, while the new Chinese hypersonic missile can take another path through the South Pole, and that makes "Shield" hang.
And if we add to this - the writer says - that a hypersonic missile can carry a thermonuclear warhead at the end of it hundreds of times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, then we understand the panic that prevailed in the Pentagon.
The second shock was on the third of November, when the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) issued its forecast for Chinese weapons at the end of the decade, and it was stated in its report that the Chinese People's Liberation Army will multiply its stockpile of nuclear warheads four times, to reach 1,000 by the end of the decade. The year 2030, after the previous version of this report estimated that the People's Liberation Army has about "200" heads, and it can only double it.
The reason for this change in expectations is not known, but - according to the magazine - it will force the strategists to fully review their plans, knowing that China has confirmed that it does not aim, with regard to nuclear issues, at more than achieving the minimum necessary to ensure and then maintain deterrence.
However, this is no longer the case - experts say - because Beijing, thanks to its hypersonic missiles and a thousand nuclear warheads, will soon have - it seems - the ability to deliver a "first strike" by 2030, and it is likely that it will be able to to eliminate the United States before Washington can even respond.
Great rise on the international stage
General John Hyten, the second man in the US Army, said, "All of these hypersonic missiles that they are making, and all of these nuclear warheads are not directed at their citizens. This is all directed at America (...) We have to assume that and we have a plan for it."
Despite all this, the United States - as the magazine says - is not close to being surpassed by China in terms of armaments, especially since, according to the new beginning agreement signed with Russia in 2010, it possesses 3,750 nuclear warheads, including 1,750 warheads, and this means that it has More than China will have in 2030, but China, thanks to the supersonic technology that America has not yet mastered, will soon be able to impose its respect on Washington and carry out all the military adventures that the Communist Party dreams of in its sphere of influence, starting with the invasion of Taiwan, says the magazine.
At the end of its report, the magazine warned that such an atomic striking force would give China a significant rise on the international stage, first among the countries of Asia, including Washington's allies such as Japan and South Korea, and then in Europe, which would be within the scope of Chinese nuclear weapons, and France may withstand alone against That's a while, because they have atomic missiles that can reach China.