No, don’t over read into it. I have heard and honestly, I still see it as an empty threat. They know what happens if their trade gets cut. All the more reason to make our own chips. I am a non-interventionist (almost to isolationist, but that is a less tenable position as long as we are in NATO and other defense treaties). They are trying to pull the 3rd world to their orbit. It’s a gamble, that may or may not payoff for them.
A lot of trade goes through the straits, but logically if we decided to truly reduce trade with a belligerent China, what would blocking the strait do. We lose access to Taiwan and SE Asia. We still have Japan and S. Korea in the northern Pacific and Australia in the S. Pacific. It doesn’t stop trade routes to Europe, Africa, South America, and even India.
No, don’t over read into it.
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I hear your points. You may well be right, we will see.
They have been makeing island bases.
Japan has been makeing moves away from us,
and Australia is as good as ccp’s southern most prefecture.
Guadalcanal is already a pla base.
I just don’t see any other uses for those roro’s in those numbers other than for amphibious use.
To me it looks like CCP is about to go kenetic with imperial Japan’s ww2 warplan.