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To: EnderWiggin1970

Nope

Take out the Chinese ships that are equivalent to our coast guard and China is no where near parity

In addition, as been seen in Ukraine, the much ballyhooed “hypersonic” missiles are a hardly what they been hyped up to be. The problem is at those speeds you cannot steer them. So they basically a fire and hope weapon.

The Chinese doesn’t have the ability to project power as the US does. The US spent the last 80 years building it miliary machine exilically to project power to any corner of the globe. Chain can maybe 1 or 2 a year with careful planning do the sort of power project the US Navy does every day world wide

Finally modern war depends very highly on airpower. The US Airforce and the US Naval air arm are the worlds largest and 2nd largest. The US has 450 5th generation fighters, China has 2. The US has 147 operational strategic bombers capably of hitting any target in China. China has zero bomber capable of hitting the USA.

Finally there is economics. China economy depending almost wholly on exports to the US and the EU

That comes crashing to a halt the 1st time China attacks anyone anywhere.

The Chinese are not stupid. They know full well they cannot go toe to toe with the US Military and it’s allies.


22 posted on 01/19/2025 12:09:01 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: MNJohnnie

Not to mention it comes down to anti-ssatellite warfare in the C4ISR fight. I don’t thibk Cbina wa ts to roll the dice in that realm because of the implications for the loser.


24 posted on 01/19/2025 12:23:53 PM PST by Salvavida (NS)
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