The Chinese Missile That Makes Every Us Base A Target

Описание: For 80 years, American military bases stretched across the Pacific like an unbreakable chain — Guam, Okinawa, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines. They were untouchable. Too far from any threat. Too powerful to challenge. That era is over.
In this video, we investigate how China quietly built a missile arsenal of over 2,000 conventional ballistic and cruise missiles — each one capable of reaching American bases that were once considered safely beyond range. We trace this buildup back to the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, when Chinese generals watched American carriers sail through unopposed and made a decision that would reshape the balance of power in Asia.
While the United States spent three decades bound by the INF Treaty — a Cold War agreement that banned land-based missiles in Asia — China, which was never a party to that treaty, spent those same decades building exactly what America could not. While Washington poured resources into Iraq and Afghanistan, Beijing focused on a single strategic objective: the Pacific.
We examine the weapons the Pentagon itself has given grim nicknames — the DF-21D "Carrier Killer," the DF-26 "Guam Killer," the DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle traveling at Mach 10. We look at the terrifying math of missile defense, where each interceptor costs three to four times more than the missile it tries to stop, and where even a 90 percent success rate may not be enough. We break down China's published doctrine of "systems destruction warfare" — a strategy designed not to annihilate American bases, but to paralyze them in the critical first 72 hours.
From Guam, where a single salvo could ground American air power across the entire Pacific, to Okinawa, where Japan is building civilian bomb shelters for the first time since World War II — this is the story of how geography went from America's greatest advantage to its most dangerous vulnerability.

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Primary Sources

Congressional testimony of US defense officials on Pacific base vulnerability (Senate Armed Services Committee hearings, 2023-2024)
US Department of Defense annual reports on Chinese military power (2023, 2024)
Pentagon budget requests for Guam missile defense systems
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