With China flashing its military capabilities this past weekend, one foreign policy expert sounded the alarm on the Chinese Communist Party’s “fast” war preparations – and America’s lack thereof.

“There’s only one president who can do something about it, and that’s the current one,” Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang said on “Mornings with Maria” Monday. “And he’s not. He doesn’t have a sense of urgency, which means that the Pentagon doesn’t have a sense of urgency, and China does.”

“We can argue all day about whether they will actually go to war or whether they’re bluffing,” he continued, “but the point is these guys in Beijing are ready to go to war – and we’re not.”

Chang’s comments come on the heels of a flurry of Chinese warplane drills over Taiwan between Friday and Saturday. The Associated Press reported that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army sent 37 aircraft and seven navy vessels around the island, and 22 of the planes crossed the Taiwan Strait’s midline.