China would have to be led by idiots to start a war with us now. We(US) are a declining power with a bankrupt government, uncompetitive businesses, and a poorly educated population. The only card that we have is our military. And a peer competitor like China is not going to play to OUR strengths.
I bet that they’ll try to wait until we can no longer afford to maintain a significant military presence in the western pacific, and then proceed to take over control of those slocs without firing a shot.
See thats the thing...No one can ever cover that much water, never had, never will...
We did it because whereever we were we owned that area of the ocean from the bottom depths to 250 nm up...
China doesn’t have the foresight to build the kind of intelligence, hardware or training of personnel to do that...
We will always have that ability, even if we cut back the US Navy in half...
But lets try to encourage the government to not do that...