To a remarkable degree, the 2020 Pentagon budget proposal is shaped by national security threats that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has summarized in three words: 'China, China, China.'
From left, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Undersecretary of Defense David Norquist at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday in Washington. To a remarkable degree, the 2020 Pentagon budget proposal is shaped by national security threats that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has summarized in three words:"China, China, China."The U.S.
Shanahan is hardly the first Defense chief to worry about China. Several predecessors pursued what the Obama administration called a"pivot" to the Pacific, with China in mind. But Shanahan sees it as an increasingly urgent problem that exceeds traditional measures of military strength and transcends partisan priorities.
Bonnie S. Glaser, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says the U.S. has been lacking effective strategies for competing with China on a broad scale. In his previous role as deputy Defense secretary, Shanahan assisted President Trump's first Defense secretary, James N. Mattis, in crafting a national defense strategy that put China at the top of the list of problems.
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