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Posted on 01/01/2019 10:34:40 PM PST by blam
Mere days after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “resolutely” defend China’s security interest – a veiled reference to maintaining its domination of the South China Sea – News.au has published details from a speech delivered two weeks ago by one of China’s leading military commanders where he outlined a strategy to rebuff the US Navy should it take an even more interventionist posture within the nine-dash line.
Rear Admiral Lou Yuan told an audience in Shenzhen that the simmering dispute over the East and South China Seas could be decisively ended by sinking two US aircraft carriers.
(Admiral Lou Yuan, ask the Japanese about waking a sleeping giant.)
Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported that Admiral Lou gave a long speech on the state of Sino-US relations, where he declared that the trade spat was “definitely not simply friction over economics and trade,” but a “prime strategic issue.” And that if China wants the US to back off, it must be willing to attack US ships when they intrude in Chinese territory.
During the Dec. 20 speech to the 2018 Military Industry List summit, Lou declared that China’s anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles were capable of hitting US carriers, even when they were in the middle of a “bubble” of defensive escorts.
“What the United States fears the most is taking casualties,” Admiral Lou declared.
He said the loss of one super carrier would cost the US the lives of 5000 service men and women. Sinking two would double that toll.
“We’ll see how frightened America is.”
Lou also explained what he described as the US’s five vulnerabilities, and insisted that China must not hesitate to strike back at any of them should a US fleet even dare to stop in Taiwan.
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(verbal) shots fired!
Sink a carrier, get glassed you idiot. Nukes are 70 year old tech for us. Rods from God are 20 year old tech for us. You don’t want to face and cannot imagine what we’ve developed since then, you fool. /directed at this idiot “admiral,” not you fellow Freeper
we should immediately advocate a remilitarized and nuclear armed japan.
Oh sorry it seems you posted this one minute before I did.
But it’s not an actual duplicate, just similar.
Mods up to you. :)
No problemo.
The more, the merrier.
It would be impossible to sink a U.S. carrier if you were a pile of ash on a puddle of glass. Lou Yuan must be smoking rope and living in Fantasy Land. Life must be great as a Chinese Rear Admiral. A soft life brings a soft mind.
US Navy Deadly Rail-Gun To Be Deployed On Zumwalt Destroyers
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Milton Bradley Battleship
https://youtu.be/VXkVZ0rloio
I think that the ROC (Republic of China) has some little nukes of its own, even if they are just for use in anti-ship/aircraft operations such as an invasion of Quemoy, Matsu or even Taiwan.
One previous ROC leader (a former classmate of mine), got to cozy with the Reds via the non-starter concept of “reconciliation”. The new leaders are more realistic and if I were them, I’d be inventing/manufacturing nukes by the score, of all types and strengths.
With the head of Red China acting like Mao (a hardcore red who would kill millions of people for power and territorial gain), no sane thinking leader of ROC could avoid the question of obtaining or making their own nukes.
Trust the communists to be communists and act accordingly.
They rattled this saber back in 2001 and 2003.
China has a network of mobile ICBMs in underground tunnels. Very dangerous.
He’s only adding China’s periodical noise to the chorus that includes his Uncle Russia and cousin Iran. We’re accustomed to it. What they do is more important for watching than what they say. Watch what they do with their potential vassal nations and those nations’ resources (e.g., Venezuela).
The Chinese effort as far as is know is mounted on a barge
The Zumwalt (all one of them) will be passed its use-by life before there is a real working rail gun capable of more than 1 shot before replacing the barrel ... a metallurgical problem I believe.
Why do we have aircraft carriers in the South China sea?
Why do we have aircraft carriers in the South China Sea?
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The Chinese are not going to shoot at them if they are in the middle of the Pacific, silly.
Has he forgotten that we no longer have a cowardly fool as president?
All nations have the right to navigate freely in international waters.
FREEDOM
Run silent.
Run deep.
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