US warned not to ignore China’s military advances

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WASHINGTON - The United States must prepare an effective strategy to face China’s rising military power and not freeze at the Asian giant “like a deer in the proverbial headlights,” a new study warned on Wednesday.

Beijing’s rapid technological advances mean that the United States “must plan seriously” for its development of weapons of greater complexity and power, said the study by the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based conservative think tank.

The report, entitled “China’s New Great Leap Forward: High Technology and Military Power in the Next Half-Century,” warned that the US government is too preoccupied with its “war on terror” and democratization of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Meanwhile, Washington is ignoring China’s emergence as a top competitor to US technological leadership.