US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has warned that China and Russia are challenging the United States as they are investing in their military capabilities.
“Most persistent and pressing security challenges to Europe and the United States are global,” Hagel said during the Munich Security Conference, the most important transatlantic security gathering, on Saturday.
“Nations such as China and Russia are rapidly modernizing their militaries and global defense industries, challenging our technological edge and defense partnerships around the world,” he said.
The Pentagon chief, who was addressing the conference with Secretary of State John Kerry, stated that the US military has been reorganizing to deal with new threats.
He also noted that the United States is expanding its military across the world more than before.
“I would venture to say, the United States is more present, doing more things in more places today than maybe ever before,” Hagel said.
“How we’re doing it is different,” he said. “If that narrative is not getting out there, then maybe that’s our fault.”
Secretary Kerry also confirmed Hagel’s remarks during his speech, pushing pack against criticism that the US is retreating from the Middle East and the rest of the world.
“I can’t think of a place in the world that we are retreating, not one,” Kerry said.
“We are facing threats of terrorism and untamed growth in radical sectarianism and religious extremism,” Kerry said. “America needs a strong Europe and Europe needs a committed and engaged America. And that means, turning inward is not an option for any of us.”
Kerry said the US and Europe need a transatlantic renaissance, “a new burst of energy and commitment and investment in the three roots of our strength: our economic prosperity, our shared security and the common values that sustain us.”
President Barack Obama has put Washington’s focus toward Asia in a strategy known as “pivot to Asia.”
The strategy has irked Russia and China which have repeatedly voiced concerns over the Obama administration’s increasing military presence in the region.
Well said’ good comments’ indeed US is being ran by a total low life kleptocrats who feed their souless bodies with countless human sacrifices’ we are not seen as human beings but useless eaters’
Kleptocrats are useless eaters, they are parasites inside the stomach of countries, parasites get people constanly ill and sick’
Well said in both comments’ Angloamerica is a truthful country’
The US needs to be challenged and now is the right time to do it. The degenerate, decaying empire is on its last legs and a good push will send it to its knees, something it desperately requires to gain some humility and believe me it is in desperate in need of it. Neither Russia or China is pushing the US in its own homeland or anywhere near the continental US. The US on the other hand is pushing both Russia and China within their own close spheres of influence. Witness the US in Georgia and in the South China Sea. Get with the program, it is the US that is the aggressor in all cases, not Russia and not China. Good for these nations, they are finally standing up to the world’s belligerent bully. It’s about darn time too.
The US is threatening a lot of countries around the world with embargos such as Iran thats an act of war that causes them to build & strenghten their armies then complain when they do. Pushing Russia & China to also buid modern defense systems . We are pushing for war with these countries . Obama wants to show the world that he is king .Russia & china won’t be easy like the small countries like Iraq &Afghanistan .Hagle & kerry are just Obamas puppets .