The China threat is being inflated to justify more spending

A reckless title and a poorly supported article. The author seems unaware of China's investments in technology and efforts to transition from "first island chain" to "second island chain". The threat is real and if the author cared about the deficit, he might have mentioned Biden's $1.9 Trillion goodies bill and compared it to the $718B DoD budget for 2020. Biden's handouts represent over 2 1/2 TIMES the DoD budget.