US Secretary of Defense Esper believes that China has the ambitions and conditions of the United States. Therefore, it is the primary strategic competitor in the United States. The United States must seriously cope with China's threat.
According to VOA, the US Department of Defense yesterday (18th) said that Esper told the Ministry of Defense News officials by phone that he was the most important mission of the Minister of Defense in the past year to implement the US defense strategy report.Russia is the main competitor to the United States.
Esper said: We are in the era of great powers.This means that our first strategic competitors are China and then Russia.He believes that there is a big problem about China, because China has enough population and large economies to replace the United States.
He also said: Anyone who knows China is very clear. They have the ambition to replace us. They must want to replace us in the region. It is best to be on the global stage (replaced us).
Esper said that China hopes to rewrite the international order of world peace since World War II, and says that the United States and allies cherish the freedom of personalism and the public, and attach importance to the freedom of press, religious freedom, and rally.International order, but China does not cherish these freedom.
Esper said that a rise of China does not worry the US leaders, but a China, which rises under the rule of China, makes the United States worry.
