China's SCS Strategy Thread
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Hendrik_2000
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Ms Tiezzi work for Diplomat the propaganda arm of Japanese government. Whose sole mission is to spread the narrative of big bad China. She probably use Diplomat to gain notoriety and stepping stone to better job with one of the neocon thinks tank like her predecessor Harry Kazianis
Anyway on different tack. I can see this mobile dry dock anchored in one of those newly reclaim island and improve the Chinese fleet reliability
China navy launches first self-propelled floating dock
February 29, 2016
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's navy has launched its first self-propelled floating dock, giving it the ability to repair warships far from the coast, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said on Tuesday, Beijing's latest move to modernize its navy.
The newspaper said the dock, the Huachuan No. 1, would enable the navy to return damaged ships to fighting capability "in very rapid time" and was designed to be sent into combat zones.
"The ship's launch marks a further breakthrough in shifting repairs to our military's large warships from set spots on the coast to mobility far out at sea," it added, showing a picture of a warship inside the floating dock.
The use of the dock means that ships with minor damage will not have to be taken out of service, while those with severe damage will not have to return to a shipyard, the paper said.
The dock can handle cruisers, destroyers and submarines, but not aircraft carriers, and cope with waves up to 2 meters (6.6 ft) high, it added.
Beijing has invested billions developing its homegrown weapons industry to support its growing maritime ambitions in the disputed South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion in global trade passes every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.
Beijing has also cast an eye towards foreign markets for its comparatively low-cost technology. Its total military budget in 2015 was 886.9 billion yuan ($141.45 billion), up 10 percent from a year earlier.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
You mean places like Djibouti?
plawolf
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Most likely. But that's more the start, rather than the end of it in my view.
It is essentially a mobile dry dock.
That gives any PLAN fleet or base serious long term operational persistence, able to mount major repairs without having to send ships back to a friendly shipyard.
Hell, with the right local support, they could build new warships using the thing if they really wanted to.
Although the most extreme operation such a mobile dock is ever remotely likely to undertake is to cannibalise one ship to repair others, but even that's unlikely unless we are in a WWIII scenario.
The primary rationale and justification for having something like this is to help sustain a fleet, especially submarines, far from friendly shipyard support for extended periods.
In my view, this thing only really comes into its own when you are either in the middle of a major, global war, or if you want to have a sizeable fleet permanently home ported far from friendly shipyards.
Since China isn't going to be fighting any global naval wars anytime soon, the most likely reason for them to invest for something like this is if they want to homeport a decent sized fleet a significant distance from traditional Chinese waters.
After the ruling, if the current Filipino president is in charge, I think he'll probably restart direct talks with China, thinking that the ruling gives him more leverage.
But it doesn't, as China will just say that the court overstepped its remit and China has a decent enough case there. Plus China is being publicly challenged, so it will be very difficult to back down, and China is big enough to weather that storm in a teacup.
So China will just ignore the ruling and continue as before in the SCS, as the court has no way to enforce it. They may even try to make an example of the Philippines.
Then the current Filipino president may try to make a big deal out of it, but it'll be like all the other public tantrums he has thrown in the past few years, which have resulted in no response.
So he or his successor will eventually end up restarting direct talks with China.
What happens next is up for debate.
But it doesn't, as China will just say that the court overstepped its remit and China has a decent enough case there. Plus China is being publicly challenged, so it will be very difficult to back down, and China is big enough to weather that storm in a teacup.
So China will just ignore the ruling and continue as before in the SCS, as the court has no way to enforce it. They may even try to make an example of the Philippines.
Then the current Filipino president may try to make a big deal out of it, but it'll be like all the other public tantrums he has thrown in the past few years, which have resulted in no response.
So he or his successor will eventually end up restarting direct talks with China.
What happens next is up for debate.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Hmmwv from cdf just posted of picture of type 56 deploy in Yongxing
