Thursday, September 17, 2009

DefSec Gates Warns of Chinese Threat

China is developing new weapons that could threaten the U.S. military presence in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told an audience of airpower advocates during a speech in suburban Maryland yesterday.  

"We should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the U.S. -- fighter-to-fighter or ship-to-ship -- and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options," Bloomberg.com quotes Gates as saying.

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