book Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower that China would not be able to overtake the United States, and that believing China is stronger than it really is, is detrimental to American perceptions and policy. According to Beckley, this is because "China’s economic, financial, technological, and military strength is hugely exaggerated by crude and inaccurate statistics": for example, Beckley states that high-scoring Chinese education statistics are actually cherry picked, that the People's Liberation Army is not as strong as the United States Armed Forces due to their differing focuses, and that China's large GDP does not equate to their actual strength or power. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces was described by some commentators as a paper tiger. Steve Day, a retired Canadian Armed Forces Joint Task Force 2 commander, described Russian command and control as "utterly inept" and suggested that the Russian military "may not be as invincible as we've believed for a number of decades". Warrior Maven and 19FortyFive noted that newly-developed Russian technologies such as the Sukhoi Su-57 and hypersonic missiles were not deployed during the conflict; the former argued that despite Vladimir Putin making "a public spectacle of what he claims are his country’s now operational hypersonic weapons, and state-owned Russian media reports consistently tout new military technologies, tests and progress", these new technologies are only deployed in small numbers, so it is likely that Russia's "integrated ground combat abilities, long thought to be exemplary, have been massively overestimated". The New Yorker noted that during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the Russian military suffered from "disunity of command; logistical weaknesses; poorly trained, poorly motivated, poorly led troops; very poor quality of officer corps; very poor quality of campaign design and ability to plan", as well as "very poor integration within and among the armed services, including the synchronization of air and ground operations". See also Straw dog China's final warning Russia References Anti-American sentiment in China Chinglish Political catchphrases Political metaphors Mao Zedong Metaphors referring to tigers