BIDEN ADMIN WORRIED ABOUT CENTCOM CRITICISM WHILE IGNORING PACING THREAT OF BEIJING

1) Extremely Ominous Warning About #China From #US Strategic Command Chief

Admiral Richard says “the big one” is coming soon & the "ship is slowly sinking" in terms of US deterrence.

"China is simply going to out-compete us & Russia isn’t going anywhere”https://t.co/0edleRH3zR

— Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Military News (@IndoPac_Info) November 7, 2022

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The full purpose of the underground complex remains unknown. Based on official Iranian accounts, the new tunnel complex is intended to house a new, large centrifuge assembly facility to replace the Iranian Centrifuge Assembly Center (ICAC) destroyed in an attack in July 2020. If this plant has the same size as the destroyed facility, it will be able to assemble about 8,000 IR-2m and IR-4 centrifuges per year. – Institute for Science and International Securit

Hal Brands writes: Australian officials told me they worry that it will be difficult to generate tons of new military capabilities in the next half-decade, so one way to strengthen deterrence is to make as clear as possible that Beijing will face a powerful democratic coalition if it attacks Taiwan. After all, it seems likely that Australia, like Washington and Tokyo, would find it hard to avoid such a fight. One critical question, in Canberra and elsewhere, is how explicitly to make this known in advance. Next up in this series: India. – Bloomberg