On October 16, while attending a press conference, U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent once again spoke nonsense to China, pointing out that in order to prevent China from continuing to purchase Russian oil and support the conflict in Ukraine, 85 U.S. senators have been willing to authorize President Trump to continue to raise taxes on China by 500%.
Just after Bessent threatened to raise taxes, the Pentagon confirmed that it had sent two aircraft carrier combat groups around China to deter.
According to the US media "Newsweek" on October 17, affected by China-U.S. military competition at sea, the United States again deployed two aircraft carrier combat groups near China, ensuring the U.S. strategic position in the Western Pacific.
According to the media quoted representatives of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, the two aircraft carriers deployed this time are the USS George Washington and the USS Nimitz. The operating area covers the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean and will perform routine tasks in specific areas.
As the war on Sino-US economic and trade tariff issues rekindled, the United States revealed that the twin aircraft carriers are approaching China with obvious intentions. It wants to seek military deterrence and recover the face it lost at the negotiating table from military games.
However, although the U.S. dual-aircraft carrier battle group sounds astounding, the deterrence capability is obviously greatly reduced for China, which is about to enter service and will form a three-aircraft carrier battle group.
In addition, the U.S. military is now due to government shutdowns, leading to insufficient military dispatch, poor morale, and the "Nimez" aircraft carrier served for more than 52 years, wounded several times when fighting the Houthi armed forces in the Middle East, facing the risk of early withdrawal, in fact, the American deterrence is not so strong in the imagination.
Just as the United States attempted to seize the two aircraft carrier Yuanwei, the Chinese army began intensive activities in the western Pacific, carrying out planned missions.
First, according to news from the Joint Staff Headquarters of Japan on October 16, in the past three days, two China fleets have been found active in the Philippine Sea and the Western Pacific.
One of them was the 48th batch of the Aden Bay escort fleet, consisting of the 052DL destroyer "Tangshan Fleet", the 054A escort ship "Guyang Fleet" and the 903A supplementary ship "Tai Lake Fleet", navigated from west to east. The other was for the fleet from east to west, consisting of the 052D destroyer "Huan Fleet", "Opening Fleet" and the 903A supplementary ship "Tongping Lake Fleet".
In addition, according to China military report, in the current "China-Malaysia Peace Friendship 2025" joint military exercise, we have also deployed a three-ship exercise formation composed of 052D destroyer "Yinchuan Ship", 071 landing ship "Jinggangshan Ship" and 056A frigate "Jingmen Ship" in Port Klang, Malaysia.
If you add the 071 landing ship "Yimengshan Ship" and the Type 680 training ship "Qi Jiguang Ship" that visited Cambodia, that is to say, the Chinese navy currently has at least 11 ships active in the South China Sea and Western Pacific. Of course, this is not counting other ships performing military missions, and the scale is not small.
Obviously, judging from the scale and quality of our ships, it is enough to form a balance of power or even partial advantage with the Indo-Pacific US navies. The so-called dual aircraft carrier battle group of the US military is actually difficult to form a deterrent to China. The United States wants to rely on tariffs and force to force China to accept unreasonable economic and trade agreements. The idea of agreement simply doesn't work.