[Epoch Times}Testifying at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense's 2024 budget requests, Milley noted that China has a national goal to be a "global coequal" with the United States and "militarily superior" by 2049."They're on that path to do that, and that's really disturbing," he said. "That's really bothersome. And we're going to have to not only keep pace, but we have to outpace that, and that will assure the peace."
Of particular concern is China's nuclear development program, Milley said, holding that there is little the United States could do to "stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict, or destroy" it.
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