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The article seems to suggest that only Chinese airlines will be banned. Not the Indians, southeast Asians, or anyone else. Really, the only way China should response is by banning US airlines from Chinese airspace.
Not enough. The Argentine military today is pretty much a shadow of its former (1982) self. Because we are talking about Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands) that is located around 750 kilometers from mainland Argentina, let's talk about their air force and navy.
The Argentine Air Force is filled with warplanes from the Cold War-era. They only have:
1. 24x 3rd-gen fighters, 5x attack aircrafts and 8x trainer-attack aircrafts from the 1970s and 1980s,
2. 2x EW aircrafts;
3. 8x tactical airlifters;
4. 2x refueling tankers; and
5. 11x short and medium-ranged maritime patrol aircrafts.
They have no 4th-gen fighters (let alone those with AESA), no AEW&C aircraft to control and command allied units, no surveillance aircraft to conduct observation and surveillance, and no ELINT & SIGINT aircraft to conduct intelligence gathering. They also don't have enough tactical airlifters that can swiftly transport large number of troops and equipment between the mainland and Malvinas.
Similar situation can be used to describe the Argentine Navy. They only have:
1. 4x FFGs from the 1980s;
2. 9x corvettes mainly from the 1980s and 1990s;
3. 2x SSKs from the 1970s and 1980s (both are in reserve);
4. 7x OPVs; and
5. 3x amphibious support (not assault) and cargo ships only.
They have no modern FFGs (let alone DDGs) that can conduct effective surface warfare, no LPDs, LSTs and LSMs (let alone LHDs) for carrying troops in large numbers and conduct airborne beachhead assaults, no modern SSKs that have AIP/lithium-ion batteries (let alone SSNs), and no proper auxiliary vessels that can refuel and resupply warships at sea and between the mainland & Malvinas.
Last but not least, significant portions of their equipment, planes and ships are in non-operational status or reserve.
TL;DR - If Argentina and the UK clash over Malvinas again today, the odds against Argentina would be even more stacked than it was back in April-June 1982. If Buenos Aires truly wants to have any hope of reclaiming Islas Malvinas from the UK, the Argentinian military desperately requires massive upgrade, improvement and expansion from its current size and deployable firepower - TODAY.
What I believe the Argentine military truly needs (and can be purchased/obtained from China) for retaking Malvinas are:
1. DF-16s and DF-21s for land-attack and long-range anti-ship, perhaps even DF-17s;
2. YJ-83 and YJ-12 for anti-ship, perhaps even YJ-18 and YJ-21 AShMs;
3. JF-17s as strike and support element, J-10s as main aerial combat element;
4. Y-9s for troop and equipment transport;
5. KJ-200s for airspace control and command, perhaps even KJ-500s;
6. Varous types of Gaoxin aircrafts for surveillance and intelligence gathering;
7. KQ-200s for maritime patrol and ASW;
8. 054A FFGs for surface combat, perhaps even 052D DDGs;
9. 056 corvettes for ASW;
10. 039A SSKs for anti-ship;
11. 071 LPDs for amphibious assault and aerial support, perhaps even 075 LHDs;
12. 072, 073, 074 and smaller landing ships and crafts for amphibious assault; and
13. System-centric and network-centric warfare management system.
Unfortunately, Argentina doesn't have the deep enough pockets required for this kind of adventure anymore in the foreseeable future, I'm afraid.
Speaking of which, Argentina may also join forces with her LatAm neighbours for any future venture on Malvinas in order to increase her chances of success. But even so, considering the advancement in equipment and platforms that the UK could bring to bear, it is still going to be a very tough fight with remote chances of operational success.
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manqiangrexue
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Welllllll.... hold on now. This is assuming they're rational. Once you spread too many lies, you start believing them and it's not inconceivable at this point that the West might think that once they arrest Putin, everyone in Russia is going to say they were liberated from his tyranny and now they can finally withdraw from Ukraine. The West never acknowledges that another people might want to fight against the Western world order for their own national power and pride; they say stupid things like, "We stand with the people of China against the CCP," as if people in China want to live in a US/Western centric world and it's the CCP forcing them to bring about a Chinese century which none of them want. We're dealing with people that are this stupid, and that is magnified by the desperation to end a war that is unexpectedly bleeding them out, one in which they thought they could economically crush Russia in weeks, so I'm not confident we can apply rational logic to them.
Plenty of complains from the female “guides” that they were force to stay with the African students and have sex with them. Some had multiple abortions due to the unwanted sex.
Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo how dare Chyna doesn't want to talk to me when I'm militarily surrounding Chyna??!!"
Yep. The US is really jacking up their efforts to push Xi into the same envelope as "iCc-dEsIgNaTeD wAr cRiMiNaL" Putin, and derailing any potential China-mediated peace brokering between Russia and Ukraine.
Although, personally, I don't really see a bright prospect for this attempt of working for a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire by China to become successful. Both sides (Russia and NATO) have invested too much and too deep into the war effort by this point to just pull out of it like that.
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Yawn, what's up with all these excuses? If you are strong enough, just sanction China. Don't waste our time with all this boring manufacturing consent
IMO these moves, along with designating Putin as a criminal under arrest, is to derail an attempt by China to mediate peace between Russia and Ukraine.
And of course to distract the public from the ongoing bank crisis in the US
Realistically peace wouldn't work until there's no more people left to fight in either Ukraine or Russia.
More I think about it, the more I believe the whole Ukraine peace treaty, while it was obviously political theater from China, the real question is, why was this performance put up?
And the answer might be that it was a smokescreen to your politicians in Europe and get all the eyes on them, so China can keep working on Iran and Saudi, where they're actually putting in real work.