[spetznaz]

The issue is that they are training. So far only via their sole operating carrier and some land-based mockups, but they are training. In another ten years it will likely be a very different story - not at par with the US, but near-par enough that it wouldn't make a difference.

I've been on FR long enough to remember a time when the big anti-China statement was they were so backward they 'lacked an ability to transport soldiers to Taiwan.' I haven't heard that one in a mighty long time

[wbarmy]

I agree. China has the ability to transport the soldiers, and Taiwan has been building the capability to down most of those transports. China will win but it will be incredibly Pyrrhic.