Are China’s armed forces a match for America?

It's got the largest navy easily. It's. got far superior ship building. capabilities. It's got advanced weapons, hypersonic missiles. Its drone. capabilities is incredible. And its. manufacturing sort of surge capacity in. the in war just out outclasses any other. country including the United States. So. the PLA is a serious serious contender, but I still think America's armed forces. would would are are stronger. >> Do you share that David? because I think. there there are amongst security. professionals some concerns that.

actually the PLA may not be as as strong. as as Ed's description suggests. So does. it matter if if Xiinping's dream is to. have a war over Taiwan this year which I. don't think we believe the fact they've. just purged huge numbers of generals uh. including the latest wave very very. senior level is that a problem of course. it is it a massive frustration for the. leadership that corruption was just so. endemic that you couldn't do these. surgical cuts to take out the corrupt. generals it turns out once you start you.

just find that the entire chain of. command has been corrupted to the core. that's a massive frustration but I fear. I do also agree with Ed that you scale. is its own sort of source of strength. And if you read some of the stuff that's. being put out by smart security scholars. uh in America, they're they're right. You know, the number of missiles, the. number of uh you know, high-end machines. being put out, just the ammunition. factories running at full speed, some of. the latest hypersonic weapons that the. Chinese have put out with these multiple. warheads that fly in their own different. directions, the Pentagon doesn't even.

know how they work.