https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-15/china-russia-or-north-korea-would-strike-u-s-homeland-in-a-war
From an op-ed;: In the Next War, America’s Homeland Will Be a Target
USA builds software tool to prevent making China angry
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/u-s-builds-new-software-tool-to-predict-actions-that-could-draw-china-s-ire/ar-AARReyv
"HONOLULU, Hawaii (Reuters) -U.S. military commanders in the Pacific have built a software tool to predict how the Chinese government will react to U.S. actions in the region like military sales, U.S.-backed military activity and even congressional visits to hotspots like Taiwan.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was briefed on the new tool during a visit to the United States Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii on Tuesday.
"With the spectrum of conflict and the challenge sets spanning down into the grey zone. What you see is the need to be looking at a far broader set of indicators, weaving that together and then understanding the threat interaction," Hicks said in an interview aboard a military jet en route to California.
The tool calculates "strategic friction," a defense official said. It looks at data since early 2020 and evaluates significant activities that had impacted U.S.-Sino relations. The computer-based system will help the Pentagon predict whether certain actions will provoke an outsized Chinese reaction.
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