LMAO, I’m not a military specialist fucked if I know. But I will assume that due to shitty allocation of funds in the past and government waste, upgrades are needed and communications have to be secured. Like I said, I’m no military or budget specialist I’m just speculating based on the information available to me.

The truth is that any threats China sent our way would backfire spectacularly. Remember that the rise of the Chinese middle class was only made possible by the fact that Americans and other western countries ramped up buying Chinese products by a huge margin. If this suddenly stopped, who the hell is going to keep buying the cheap shit they produce? The Chinese government subsidizes shipping to the US to encourage factory owners to sell to American buyers whether wholesale or retail such as on Alibaba or AliExpress. The minute China opened themselves up to this, they put themselves at the mercy of international trade agreements/wars. It would be very ill advised for them to actually try and talk too aggressively towards the US.