China's SCS Strategy Thread

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tamsen_ikard

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Black Wolf said:
An innocent question: if the U.S. Coast Guard is patrolling the South China Sea from Singapore & Philippines, who's guarding the actual U.S. coast? Or has the definition of "coast" become global now? ;)
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Guarding against whom? No one dares to come even 5000 thousand miles from US coast. And Trump doesn't really need coast guard to detain smugglers. He literally blows up their boats using air to ground missiles.

US think China will chicken just with the sight of any US ship, including the coast guard. Now the question is, will China chicken out to avoid escalation with US or will they stabd the ground.
 
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kkwan18

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tamsen_ikard said:
Guarding against whom? No one dares to come even 5000 thousand miles from US coast. And Trump doesn't really need coast guard to detain smugglers. He literally blows up their boats using air to ground missiles.

US think China will chicken just with the sight of any US ship, including the coast guard. Now the question is, will China chicken out to avoid escalation with US or will they stabd the ground.
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They definitely will not chicken out.
 
PiSigma

PiSigma

"the engineer"
Black Wolf said:
An innocent question: if the U.S. Coast Guard is patrolling the South China Sea from Singapore & Philippines, who's guarding the actual U.S. coast? Or has the definition of "coast" become global now? ;)
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China need to secure it from bases in Cuba. /S

In all seriousness, the USCG have very limited presence in SCS so it's very much just showing the flag. All the china needs to do is swarm them with fishing boats with ccg as backup
 
plawolf

plawolf

Lieutenant General
PiSigma said:
China need to secure it from bases in Cuba. /S

In all seriousness, the USCG have very limited presence in SCS so it's very much just showing the flag. All the china needs to do is swarm them with fishing boats with ccg as backup
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Not to mention the inconvenient fact that the USCG would have zero jurisdictional powers or real hard power ability to even do anything in the event of an incident other than maybe fish some Philippino survivors out of the drink afterwards.

Indeed, having them nearby would likely increase the likelihood of an incident if China wants to prove just how much they are paper tigers.
 
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