China’s Military Advantage Over US in Indo-Pacific Is ‘Alarming’: Defense Expert

An American soldier walks in front of military tanks at the U.S. Army military training base in Grafenwoehr, southern Germany, on July 13, 2022. Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images

China’s military maintains a sizable advantage over the United States in the Indo-Pacific theater, according to one defense expert.

Dakota Wood, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said that China’s military dwarfs that of the United States and would have the advantage of numerous land-based systems in a conflict.