[puppypusher]

If China is depending on the Russian coldwar era warships and submarines to initiate a war she better pay her sailors extreme danger pay just for serving on the ships. Most of those ships and subs are deathtraps(suicide machines)for the men who serve on them.

I don't think the U.S. navy has much to worry about.

[JamesP81]

I don't think the U.S. navy has much to worry about.

No, it doesn't. One carrier battlegroup could destroy their entire fleet in one day's worth of fighting. Nuclear powered fast attack submarines would have their energy shipments cutoff completely. If they screw with Taiwan, or anyone else, we can and will screw their economy so hard they'll be screaming for their mamas after a week. And this is without using any ground troops at all.