To compete with China, a top US general calls for increased R&D spending
The US military must increase spending to develop emerging technologies, with long-range precision strike and hypersonic weapons, to head off a violent conflict with China, according to a top Pentagon general.
During the Center for a New American Security’s 2018 annual conference, Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Paul Selva said the US must invest in new deterrent technologies in the coming years in order to keep China at bay.
‘If we just sit back and don’t react, we will lose our technological superiority in 2020, the Chinese are right,’ the four-star general told an audience on 21 June.
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