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CHAD WOLF: Trump is serious about the China threat and is rebuilding our arsenal

Pentagon contracts aim to surge missile production, with output of key systems set to increase more than tenfold.

By Chad Wolf Fox News

Published March 23, 2026 5:00am EDT

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For decades, Washington has talked about the threat the Chinese Communist Party poses to the American people. Analysts and politicians have written countless white papers, held congressional hearings and delivered speeches warning that Beijing's military modernization, economic coercion and technological ambitions pose an existential challenge to America’s military primacy. Yet for all that talk, policymakers have failed to do the one thing that matters most: rebuild our industrial capacity to produce the weapons systems necessary to deter — and if necessary, defeat — Chinese aggression.

That's finally changing.

Under President Donald Trump's leadership, the Department of War is executing the kind of reform that Republicans have promised for a generation but never delivered. Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg aren't just reorganizing Pentagon charts —........

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