[Think Taiwan Strait. Should the Chicoms do a massive amphibious assault a trap could be set for them. The assault would only happen after a major air assault when all bets are off. The troop carrying ships would/could be sitting ducks.]
Interesting. So it appears they would go the blockade route-starve them. Does that mean a Berlin Airlift response? Doubt the Chicoms would stop them. Then there’s those islands they’ve built up. During the standoff the pipsqueak Philipine navy could take them over and dare the Chicoms to respond with the US there locked and loaded.