A Study On The US Policy About China's Anti-Access/Area Denial Strategies

In history,because of its limited military capacity,China has to put aside of some national core interest.As China rising up quickly,this situation will meet some changes.The continuous developing economic power gave China more confidence in modernizing and updating its military,China is pacing up to narrow the gap with major military powers,in order to gain a kind of military capacity adequate to it's status as one of the main powers which will better protect it's national interest.But the United States and some neighboring countries considered China's modernization of military capacity as a unilateral effort to break the regional strategic balance.In the past decade,based on the study of China's weapon development and military principles,some American scholars,army officials,politicians believe China is acquiring a “Anti-Access/Area Denial”capacity,once China occupied this capacity,it would might breach the current situation of Taiwan Strait in the future and even continually take this advantage to treat the disputes with neighboring countries,while the United States will loss the possibility of intervention.Many American military analysts strongly believe that China has already developed its “Anti-Access/Area Denial ”capacity as a true military strategy.Once occurred a conflict between China and the United States,China will launch attack on some key points,such as American's C4 SIR system communication net,aircraft carriers fleet,logistics and supply system with sorts of Assassin's Mace weaponry,this will severely restrict American military's maneuver in sea,air,space and cyberspace.The further developing of this capacity will break the strategic balance between China and the United States in western pacific area and fundamentally threat the US's leadership in Asia-pacific.As a result of countering,American strategic circle brought up some concepts like Air-Sea Battle and Joint Forces in the hope of defeating this Anti-Access/Area Denial capacity in key-theater and assuring the access to and freedom of maneuver with the global commons & global connected domains.The struggling on“Anti-Access/Area Denial” will become an significant long-term theme in the field of Sino-US military strategies study.