When President Trump announced on Friday that the United States will come forward with a project that has long been excluded to build a fighter from the next generation, the message to China was clear: the United States plans to spend tens of dollars over the next decade, and perhaps for a much longer period, to contain Beijing’s ability to control the sky on the Pacific Ocean.
But here on Earth, the reality was completely different.
Since the Ministry of Governmental efficiency goes beyond agencies throughout the government, its goals included some organizations that are more concerned about Beijing than most of them, or sought effectively to sabotage them. As with a lot of Dog’s dismantling from Elon Musk, there was no published study of the costs and benefits of losing these capabilities – and no discussion can be replaced on how the importance of roles, which can be said to be the same as the importance of the manned fighter.
In the list of capacity for life support, there is a 29 -year -old non -profit organization, a 26 -year -old news that has reached 60 million people in Asia every week, from China to Myanmar, and across the Pacific Islands where the United States was struggling to confront China’s accounts around the world. I have succeeded in all Washington employees on Friday, with the exception of 75 Washington employees, in an attempt to stay in the air while court cases develop on Trump officials. He moves to the entry of the media supported by the US government.
In the Pentagon, Defense Minister Beit Higseth canceled the pure evaluation office, an internal thinking center. Thanks to an annual budget representing a few seconds of Pentagon spending every year, the office tried to think about the introduction to the challenges the United States will face for a contract or two years in the future – such as the new capabilities of artificial intelligence, independent weapons and hidden weaknesses of supply chains of military contractors.
It was a distinguished institution, which was called the Wall Street Journal in the past week “The office that won the Cold War.” Mr. Higseth said in a statement that it will be reshaped in an unlimited way “in line with the strategic priorities of the administration”, although its value was the challenge of traditional thinking in those priorities.
In the Ministry of Internal Security, a series of electronic defenses was stripped, at a moment when the infiltrators supported in China were more successful at any time in modern memory.
Among those who have been dissolved, at least at the present time, is the Cyber Safety Review Council, which has been created on the National Transport Safety Council model, which is looking for aircraft accidents and tries to extract the lessons learned. The Cyber Security Council has just started testifying how to bore Chinese intelligence in the depths of telecommunications companies in America, including the system used by the Ministry of Justice to monitor the “legal objection” system, which places excavations on persons suspected of crimes or spying – including Chinese protrusion.
The council is now dissolved. There is no one at the Cyber Security Agency and infrastructure seems to be able to determine what happened to investigate one of the most successful American networks, or is now responsible for knowing the reason for the arrest of American telecom companies that are not listed, for more than a year, by the Chinese Ministry of Security.
The list goes on, and more evidence that in the first two months, the new administration was devastating in the demolition of things, but painfully slowly explaining how their actions are consistent with its wider strategy.
All this has the Chinese celebration. as America’s voice was dismantled Silently fled, the Global Times, a tongue of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote that “the so -called lighthouse of freedom, Voa, was now ignored by its government like a dirty piece.”
China is still trying to take its scale for the new administration, which puts new sanctions on Chinese entities that buy Iranian oil, but also talks about scanning the chips and science law. The law not only provides federal funding to start the production of advanced semiconductors in the United States, but it has provided billions of dollars to work in a set of major technologies, from batteries to quantum computing, supported by China.
“It is a contradiction, as the Chinese say, we are reducing our tools for the national authority while we say we are defending our competitor with Beijing,” said Michael J. Green, CEO of the United States Study Center at the University of Sydney in Australia. “When we reveal human rights violations or Chinese misleading information, this is another form of competition with China. Getting rid of it creates a vacuum only Beijing will try to fill it. We already see it.”
I left the speed of dismantling many Asia experts are somewhat amazed, because they know that the new plane-which Mr. Trump will be called F-47, clearly in honor of its second period-will not contribute to the American deterrence for a decade, if it is on time.
“The United States’ charge is to deter war with China without surrendering and competing effectively in all areas of soft power,” said Richard Fontaine, CEO of the new US Security Center and former Republican Assistant to John McCain in the Senate. “The United States has a set of tools needed to do this, including humanitarian aid, development assistance, support for democracy abroad, and strategic contact efforts. It is strange that these are the most threatening efforts by new cost reduction teams.”
He warned, “If things go away, it will be unilateral disarmament in the most important competition in the world.”
It is difficult to find a concept topic for discounts; Some depend on the acts of non -disposal, ancient grudges, or a feeling that even the media funded by the state or thought are inhabited by the anti -Trump liberals.
Sometimes it is particularly confusing. For example, the clear evaluation office was mostly operating by job civilians or the unified army, who were asked to think outside the box: How will the prolonged economic deflation in China affect its leaders’ thinking in Taiwan? What happens to wars when manned aircraft – like a newly announced aircraft fighter – can be dismantled regularly with independent weapons?
Discounts on free Asian radio, which Break a lot of the biggest stories About China’s “China Reunion” detention camps in Xinjiang, are among the most mysterious monuments. Its programs were attacked by Beijing, which made great efforts to monitor the reports Their narration, often on YouTube and X.
Pay Fang, President of Free Asia Radio, a non -profit institution that obtains a budget of $ 60 million from a certified exchange of Congress, said in an interview that she suspects that the organization was specifically targeted.
Dog and the White House were shooting at America’s voice, which includes hundreds of millions of listeners and readers, which Mr. Trump denounced it as “the radical voice of America”. On one of his executive orders, he said that “he will ensure that taxpayers are not on a hook for radical propaganda.” (All 1,300 US -journalists have been placed on a paid vacation.)
“You just have to look at the way the dictators in the region celebrate,” Ms. Fang said in an interview. “We offer a voice that opposes their propaganda and lights light in dark corners they prefer to leave them without touching them.” She said the result is that “we are an essential way that America wins with confidence among people who live in these authoritarian countries. RFA is not only their losses, but America.”
However, it is difficult to determine the winning confidence. It takes years, and the results are not easy to prove like showing a new fighter plane, and in the case of new F-47 drones flying alongside it.
The Radio Free Asia budget is so small that Mrs. Fang said that she was completely sure that non -profit organizations were “side effects” as the administration moved to the US Agency for World Media, which also supports Voice of America, Radio Free EUROPE and Radio Liberty.
Defunding happens even before the Senate confirms the choice of Mr. Trump to head the World Media Agency, L. Brent Bozell III, a conservative political activist. Kari Lake, a former supporter journalist for the Senate in Arizona, has chosen as a new president of America, but at the present time it is only a “private advisor” because Mr. Trump launched the members of the Board of Directors who could have replaced the current leader.
This administration is clearly considered “soft power” as a largely undesirable concept. But his absence leaves a vacuum that will fill Beijing happily.
“It seems that the defeat is that although China is escalating electronic attacks that are not softening, it builds the navy to defeat the American Pacific fleet, send diplomats of wolves wolves,” and creating alternatives to the dollar that America spent inward and closes information markets to urine.
Speaking from Jakarta, Mr. Kulby answered his own question: “We confirm Chinese beliefs that they are ascending, and that our retreat is accelerating.”
