US military commanders in the Pacific have now developed a computer-based software tool to predict how the Chinese government will react to US actions in the region like military sales, US-backed military activity and even congressional visits to hotspots like Taiwan.
The tool will help the Pentagon predict whether certain actions will provoke an outsized Chinese reaction. It looks at data from early 2020 and evaluates significant activities that had impacted US-Sino relations by calculating strategic friction.
While relations between the United States and China are already at a low point, this new software will allow US officials to look forward to planned actions as far as four month in advance.
