Posted on 03/09/2023 12:22:35 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
In 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping donned military fatigues and boarded a People’s Liberation Army Navy destroyer in the South China Sea.
Spread out before him that April day was the largest flotilla Communist-ruled China had ever put to sea at one time, 48 ships, dozens of fighter jets, more than 10,000 military personnel.
For Xi, the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, the day was a way point to a grand ambition – a force that would show China’s greatness and power across the world’s seven oceans
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Napoleon said, “You can do anything with a bayonet...except sit on it.”
Those are future underwater marine museums and fish habitat. Ask the Russians.
The Chinese have never been a maritime people.
i think your wrong,
The Ming dynasty of China was the leading global maritime power between 1400 and 1433, when Chinese shipbuilders built massive ocean-going junks and the Chinese imperial court launched seven maritime voyages.[2]
Good Find.
USA still has twice the naval tonnage that China does. Meaning, they have a lot more small ships - which makes sense. Their main naval concerns have been “green water” ocean - Taiwan, South China sea.
While the USA obviously is a global, “blue water” force.
Jeff Head was the expert on this sort of thing. I’m not an expert. But I believe China is reasonably able to use a Navy for what amounts to coastal defense. Yeah, they have an aircraft carrier, maybe two, but power projection isn’t their thing.
And China’s main vulnerability is their supply lines. They need to make sure that material moves from the Persian Gulf and from Africa and other locations all the way home to China. Their navy is not the sort of navy that keeps sea lanes open. That’s what we do. Until we decide to close the sea lanes.
I don’t see a lot of diversity in those photos! SHAME!!!
Our woke skippers like to bash into freighters and stuff.
Not a lot without a ton of fuel.
How much of it is nuclear.
While the USA obviously is a global, “blue water” force.
Excellent points! However, would you say China has enough deep water force to protect their shipping lanes along the "new silk road"?
This would lead to a naval race between the two nations on the Iberian Peninsula which would lead to the expulsion of Muslims and the (re)discovery of a new continent before the century ended.
It was a providential fate of good luck that the Chinese didn't discover America.
Well, with a Navy once built, you can take your awesome new ships to go visit other countries. Doing that with tanks presents...problems.
Read someplace that some years before De Game got to India with a single ship, Zheng He was there fifty years earlier with hundreds of ships. A new emperor decided that all exploration should cease and the ships were destroyed.
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“Now what’s Beijing going to do with it?”
Well, that’s obvious…they’re going to create equity and fund Trans transitions. What does anyone do with a military?
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Two words...
F R E E . T R A D E
Here’s a few more...
We financed all of what China is doing.
Some of us tried to tell folks what they were buying into.
Well, our view lost. Here we are.
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