After they sink the first American carrier, I’m thinking a sustained U.S. counter attack of cruise missiles targeting the Three Gorges Dam might get the Chinese focused on why sinking a second American carrier is a bad idea. An alternative would be for a massive U.S. military response against the Chinese ship building facilities/ports in Dalian or Liaoning.
The ChiComs are NOT invincible.
During the Iraq/Kuwait conflict, we had the general who was the head of IT at a large base. We were going to listen into the communications on a plane called Looking Glass but due to hostilities, we couldn’t listen in so the general took questions.
Someone asked him if he was in charge, how would he handle. He said he would address in one day and no Americans would be in harm’s way. Everyone in the audience including the person who asked the question thought it inferred the use of nuclear weapons so the person who asked the question asked for clarification.
The general replied, I’d take care of it in a day and not risk American lives. I asked my buddy who was in the Air Force at the time and he said, those are the people you want when an order to use comes down. You don’t want them second guessing. My guess is the Chinese Admiral is cut from the same cloth.
This is a bunch of programmed hooey! China does not want war with the U.S. - just economically it would destroy them. Shaking a turnip stalk in our face and calling us cowards is simply Marxist (or autocratic) bluster.
HUMBUG!
The answer is NOT to sail US military convoys through the South china Sea - although it is tempting. The answer is to sail a convoy of US, Australian, British, Indian, Japanese... etc. military ships through the South china Sea - repeatedly!
BALDERDASH
He only needs to sink one and it will be game on, and WWIII will be seeing millions of deaths.