[jlogajan]

Look you nut case, of course if there were no US Navy in the area they could take Taiwan. But there is the US Navy -- highlighting exactly what I said. You have to have a credible navy to project force over seas. Now the Panama Canal is half a world away. It is laughable and kooky to presume that China has a credible force threat to the canal when they can't even project a credible force against Taiwan.

So back to your paranoia induced stupor. There are real military threats in the world, and that isn't one of them.

[HighRoadToChina]

Again, you are ignorant or willy-ignorant of asymetric warfare which is what these Reds conduct.

PRC and PLA don't need to send a navy to Panama Canal to be effective. All the they to do is shut the canal down through some "accident(s)" and America won't be able to move military ships through the canal. I.e. to reinforce the US 7th Fleet with ships from the Atlantic.

BTW, if they shipped their IRBMs via cargo containers, who is going to inspect them? Your above friend who resides in Panama? And if they fire their IRBMS from cargo containers or offloaded from land, are you going to stop them from landing? 'Cause no US ABM technology now or in the future is able to do so.

No credible threat. The only thing not credible here are your arguments.