Thousands Of Ships, Millions Of Troops: China Is Assembling a Huge Fleet For War With Taiwan

https://www.forbes.com ^ | Jul 27, 2021 | David AxeForbes Staff

[RomanSoldier19]

To have any chance of conquering Taiwan, China might need to transport as many as two million troops across the rough 100 miles of the Taiwan Strait and land them under fire at the island’s 14 potential invasion beaches or 10 major ports.

That’s a lot of people—far, far more than the People’s Liberation Army Navy can haul in its 11 new amphibious ships. To transport the bulk of the invasion force, Beijing almost certainly would take up into naval service thousands of civilian ships.

To that end, the Chinese Communist Party has created a legal and bureaucratic framework for taking over control of commercial shipping. Meanwhile, naval engineers have begun modifying key vessels to make them better assault ships.

All that is to say, the vast flotilla that would be both the vehicle for China’s assault on Taiwan—and the biggest target of Taiwanese forces and their allies—is taking shape.

“If the PLA invasion force was a million or more men, then we might expect an armada of thousands or even tens of thousands of ships to deliver them, augmented by thousands of planes and helicopters,” Ian Easton, an analyst with the Project 2049 Institute in Virginia, wrote in a recent report.

The PLAN’s eight modern Type 071 landing docks and three Type 075 big-deck assault ships together can haul around 25,000 troops. A drop in the bucket. To transport the balance of the invasion force, the Chinese navy can take up around 2,000 large commercial vessels crewed by around 650,000 mariners.

[Kevmo]

First blood from a sociopath

[Kevmo]

There you go again, sociopath.

[BroJoeK]

Kevmo: "***that makes you quite rhe defeatist commie sympathizer, on top of being a sociopath."

Sorry, FRiend, but it appears that you have no sense of honor, honesty or decency and are now just throwing out words you hope will hurt.

Your words can't hurt because they are so obviously mindless and therefore meaningless.

You need to take some time off to meditate, relax and clear your mind of all the nonsense garbage which is now rattling around in it.
Then quietly think about what it is you really wish to say which might add some value to your country's interests.

Have a nice day, sir.

[Kevmo]

Sociopath said sumthin sumthin

[BroJoeK]

Kevmo first posts his wet fantasies, #94.

Kevmo first uses graphic language to describe his enemies, #114.

Kevmo first accuses BroJoeK of bad-faith arguments, #146

Kevmo again accuses BroJoeK of bad-faith arguments, #165

Kevmo again accuses BroJoeK of bad-faith arguments, #175

BroJoeK first returns Kevmo's accusation of bad-faith arguments, calling them "wet fantasies", #199

Kevmo first goes berserker, #201, posting:

"That’s what makes your posts so full of stupidity.
And look at what you so idiotically said, that YOU can only see the difference in MY fantasies.
Dunb, incredibly dumb."

Having flipped to berserker mode Kevmo then made one or two efforts to recover sanity, but failed, eventually reducing his posts to utterly mindless nonsense.

[Kevmo]

Oh, wow, you're still at it, sociopath?

[BroJoeK]

I refer you to Tai_Ching's totally reasonable post #131 and Kevmo's response at #150.

Responses like that made me suspect Kevmo is posting things a Chi-Com agent might say, and so I pressed him on it.
His response was to explode in invective but, curiously, never actually denied being a Chi-Com agent.
Instead, he strongly suggested he's here to defend the interests of Taiwanese, but not all Taiwanese, only certain Taiwanese, those whose ancestors were native to Taiwan.
All the others -- ethnic Chinese and "soy-boys" -- he has no use for.

But who would defend the interests of native-Taiwanese (as opposed to, say, Chinese-Taiwanese) by discouraging Americans from helping defend Taiwan against a Chi-Com invasion?
What sense does that make?
I don't think it makes any sense, and so what does that make Kevmo?
That's why I still think Chi-Com agent posing as a defender of native-Taiwanese but trying his best to discourage American intervention against a Chi-Com invasion of Taiwan.

Historically the US has committed to help defend Taiwan since roughly 1950, when Communists invaded South Korea.
That invasion forced US Pres. Truman to draw up a "containment" line which included South Korea, Japan, Taiwan & the Philippines.
In roughly 1979 the traitor Pres. Carter drew up a new "Taiwan Relations Act" which made ambiguous what had been explicit, and so today, as the Chi-Coms grow both stronger and bolder, the US response to a Chi-Com invasion is depended on the strategic thinking of yet another Carter-type president.

A president who may well take council from the fears of in-effect agents like our poster Kevmo.

[blam]

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[Kevmo]

You are simply a sociopath.

[sauropod]

Bump

[Kevmo]

Lately, watching how effective the Ukrainians have been [with basically no navy] taking out the Russian flagship and several other ships near Snake Island, it reminded me of this thread where BroJoke was such a brojerk.

And now everyone is rethinking naval strategy. Because of fast, cheap, easy to target missiles. The number 2 army in the world has been rendered almost toothless in their waters but brojerk would rather send out straw arguments and red herrings. What an @$$#0/e.