I didn’t see it mentioned LJ, but China would never be able to conduct a D-Day op on the US mainland because their sea lift capability is insufficient to lift any sort of force projecting army across the big pond. To Taiwan yes, but not the Pacific.
Yes, they technically have the ship quantities, but there are a ton of small boys in that number with limited capability and would be challenged to get across the pond even without a combat loading.
Most of the landing ships they have are not ocean-going and I’m unaware of them having any type of docking ships with floodable well decks.
I agree with you - it’s fear porn. There has been quite a bit written, often by their own generals about the “little emperors” and the recent dust up with the Indians in the Himilayas demonstrated that they are not capable against a peer let alone the US.
On the tech front one of the things I’ve often wondered is if we haven’t conducted a Trojan Horse exercise on them. I.E. They steal something from us tech wise, but it’s something that we allowed them to steal knowing they would and planted a control within it for our own purposes.
Thank you for the additional.
A reverse Trojan Horse was discussed a while ago, whereby cheap knock-off Chinese parts were being used in US aircraft. It was suspected that these parts (including avionics I'm sure) could be manipulated to cause havoc. I think the Presidential Aircraft required some purging of Chinese parts when Trump took office IIRC.