Sowetan

China fine-tunes hi-tech arsenal to rule the world

- By Farouk Araie Araie is a Sowetan reader

China has embarked on a military build-up that is unpreceden­ted in recorded human history. On land, it is busy deploying nuclear-tipped interconti­nental nuclear missiles with multiple warheads that can reach every corner of the planet.

At sea, it has commission­ed warships whose capability will revolution­ise many aspects of naval combat. A new generation of hypersonic missiles is in an advanced state of deployment that can destroy any warship afloat.

Beneath the sea, a new generation of nuclear-powered submarines are being launched to achieve supremacy. In the air, new stealth aircraft are on patrol with airborne weapons that can outmatch any rival.

In the realms of outer space, China is assembling a space force that will totally dominate the cosmos domain. Its complete dominance in artificial intelligen­ce will enable it to be the most powerful nation on earth by 2030.

It was Napolean who once said: “When the Chinese Dragon awakens, the world will tremble.”

Over the past 100 years, many nations desired to rule the world – Nazi Germany, communist Soviet Union, imperial Japan and expansioni­st US.

Enter the Dragon, China is no friendly panda. It’s massive claws are inching towards complete global domination. The new master of the universe. Shanghai will eclipse New York and London as the centre of finance. The yuan will displace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Mandarin will be spoken across the world alongside English.

The Chinese economy will be bigger than that of the US by 2028 and twice as large by 2050.The world will become as acquainted with the thoughts of Confucius as it became familiar with those of Plato. Over the past 40 years, China has become an industrial colossus. America is fearful of China, an adversary it cannot match or contain.

In outer space, China’s space technology will see its space station deployed this year. It will have it’s own space-based solar energy power array. China is impressive­ly developing the ability to fight and win a galactic battle.

China’s stealth capabiliti­es are at a threshold today. It will ultimately, and very soon, change warfare on every level in the decade ahead. It will become the dominant enabler of weapons systems. It will permeate all aspects of the art of war – from robotic weaponry, artificial intelligen­ce to the new breed of soldiers on the battlefiel­d.

China has tested microwave weapons that could shut down electronic systems, even those shielded, by bombarding the target with energy pulses between 100 and 300,000 megahertz.

They constantly remember the thoughts of Sun-tzu, who said: “Warfare is the art of deceit.”

China is fully prepared for asymmetric warfare with the West. It’s strategy is the use of an array of “Assassins Mace Weapons” to disrupt both the economy and communicat­ions in the event of war with the US, including cyber network attacks.

A nervous world will witness the rebirth of the Chinese Dragon as it becomes an imperial power, whose reach will envelope the entire world.

Its gigantic footprint will cause political seismic tremors. A new world order will be born.

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