By Nirmal P. Acharya

China held the 15th Airshow in Zhuhai, China, from November 12 to 17. The total number of visitors was nearly 600,000, and the contract was over 280 billion yuan.

The advanced equipment displayed by China's major defense companies is impressive and years ahead. In addition to the advanced weapons represented by the J-20S and J-35A stealth fighters, there were all kinds of unmanned technologies that have attracted much attention: new concept drones in the sky, "robot wolves" and unmanned combat vehicles on the ground, stealth unmanned combat ships on the water and unmanned underwater vehicles.

The above display gives the impression that the US may already be unable to beat China. The US needs to be very cleared eye and realistic as technological exponential growth has stealthily and quickly placed China ahead.

The US is already a deindustrialized country, and its huge military equipment is old technology, broken, and in an old state. China, with the most complete industrial chain and the strongest industrial manufacturing capacity, can continuously produce more sophisticated sea, land and air unmanned weapons that have been shown and many yet to be shown. If China's unmanned weapons in the number of thousands or even more than a hundred thousand, overwhelm the US, how does one respond? There's no need to submit any hypersonic missiles from China.

There has always been a popular strategic judgment that "war is inevitable between China and the US". In fact, this Zhuhai air show indicates a new strategic judgment: the hot war between China and the US has ended before it started.

The fate of the MCC, America's foreshadowing of a hot war between China and the US, is bound to be lonely, awkward, and even boomerang-like.