True (not that the Chicken Littles will catch on, though), but articles like this one will help make it politically impossible for Democrats to hold up so much of Taiwan's arms purchases from us.
This is nonsense. While it does have several ballistic missile subs (that leak radiation and kill most of their crews within several years), most of China's attack subs are Russian relics, like the Whiskey class. Its several 1990s-vintage Kilo SSKs are so complicated that it has had to man them with Russians to keep them running. The two Sovremmeny DDGs China bought from Russia are no match for the US Navy. The Sunburn is an ok anti-ship missile, but again, no match for the USN. On top of all this, Taiwan is buying four ex-USS Kidd class DDGs and up to eight new SSKs. This article is science fiction.
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1. The huge increase in missiles pointed at Taiwan is fact.
2. Their Russian-built destroyers and anti-ship missiles could take out a US carrier if China could identify the location of our carriers and were willing to lose their own ships in the process. The second part of that is very easy to imagine. As for finding our carriers, US carrier boosters decry that as nearly impossible, but I think that is a bold and reckless assumption.
3. Reasonable people can disagree about the threat presented to our carrier fleet, especially to its much ballyhooed mission of operating in littoral areas and projecting power ashore (which by necessity means getting fairly close to shore), but to call it "science fiction" is way too strong.
True (not that the Chicken Littles will catch on, though), but articles like this one will help make it politically impossible for Democrats to hold up so much of Taiwan's arms purchases from us.