[0:17:05 - 0:17:08] Is it some sort of new type of cruise missile technology that
China has developed?
[0:35:43 - 0:35:49] To a very great extent, the United States was the champion for
China's rise.
[0:36:04 - 0:36:11] China is also using its 9,000-mile coastline to rewrite the rules of fighting at sea,
[0:38:11 - 0:38:19] would need to sail much closer towards
China to fire their missiles at any force invading Taiwan.
[0:38:19 - 0:38:26] One naval scholar we spoke to likened it to a boxing match in which a fighter, in this case,
China,
[0:39:21 - 0:39:26] They are difficult to detect and track, something
China is trying to solve.
[0:39:44 - 0:39:50] Since Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan,
China's military leaders have themselves been mostly silent
[0:40:08 - 0:40:13] then what's going to happen when there's a real crisis in the South
China Sea or with Taiwan?
[0:40:39 - 0:40:45] Several sources within the Pentagon tell 60 minutes that if
China invaded Taiwan,
[0:42:14 - 0:42:20] Since our story, first aired in March,
China has intensified its aggressive military tactics
[0:43:04 - 0:43:11] While the Navy of the People's Republic of
China or PRC grows larger and more lethal by the year.
[0:44:43 - 0:44:50] The same year, the CIA says
China has set for having the capability to take Taiwan by force.
[0:45:46 - 0:45:49] If you think about what a coherent grand strategy of these if
China would be,
[0:47:35 - 0:47:39] We are concerned with the trajectory that
China is on, with
China's behavior.
[0:47:44 - 0:47:50] How would you describe what
China has been able to do militarily over the last 20 years?
[0:48:00 - 0:48:07] and how they are using that to force other nations, navies, out of certain areas in the South
China Sea.
[0:48:42 - 0:48:51] Toshiyoshihara of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments may know more than any scholar in the West about
China's Navy.
[0:48:52 - 0:48:58] China will have about 440 ships by 2030, and that's according to the Pentagon.
[0:49:03 - 0:49:12] China has clearly invested in this defense industrial infrastructure to produce these ships, which allows them to produce multiple ships simultaneously,
[0:49:17 - 0:49:27] China's Navy piggybacks on a booming commercial shipbuilding industry kept afloat by generous state subsidies, inexpensive materials, and cheap labor.
[0:51:46 - 0:52:01] Admiral Gilday says the U.S. Navy's main advantage over
China is America's sailors. His goal is to modernize the U.S. fleet and have those sailors serving alongside hundreds of unmanned vessels by 2045.