Chinese aviation with a 12-time Pacific advantage?

Wickert presented this assessment at the Back-in-the-Saddle conference conducted at Edwards Air Base in California at the beginning of the year. Its aim was to present the advancement of various U.S. Air Force modernisation programmes, which aim to keep the US military advantage over possible enemies. Details of the presentation were not disclosed to the public. But the commander's speech, kept in a speech – to put it mildly – of alarmistic.