Plus domestic market, China can more then survive.Develop global south markets?
Plus domestic market, China can more then survive.Develop global south markets?
No, you don't get it. The tanks are there to be blessed with divine favour, with which we will strike down the godless CCP invasion force.Don't wanwaneses know that CCP members have to swear to be atheist and for them striking a temple would be no different than striking a warehouse? :-/
You're about five years out of date.China's biggest vulnerability would be its trade routes and sea lanes. If you look at it from a purely objective POV. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to guess where the US and its allies would choose to focus their efforts in a prolonged conflict.
It currently does not have the same capacity to do sustained deployment of large CSG away from its continental shelf. It also has very sparse over seas bases and resupply depots. Its refueling assets for the PLAAF is also a small fraction of that of the US, and cannot have large fleet of strike platforms too much beyond the first island chain. The US is also beefing up its marine expeditionary units to do air and sea control around island groups.
Given this, places like the strait of Malacca, and too lesser extent Lombok and Sunda, would be major choke points that adversaries can use to choke off trade and especially energy. Some amount of increase in over land routes could mitigate some of the issues, but at a much higher cost, and possibly some delays. Other straits like Tsushima, Batanes, and Miyako would also be choked off to some extent, although those locations would be highly contested. The Indian Ocean is another area that would even be more difficult for China to do any commerce protection and the like.
Just looking at this dispassionate way, the current platforms and force structure of China would not allow much possibility of countering those types of moves.
One point is that Japan/South Korea/Philippines are not the US mainland.
If ASEAN becomes a hellhole, with the major players shelling each other’s infrastructure and ship traffic cut off, the US still has a whole continent of production untouched. There are questions as to how fast they’d be able to re-industrialise, but without competition from China, and with the right impetus, it’d happen eventually.
it’s a similar calculus as Ukraine. Russia is shelling Ukraine, and Ukraine is (to some extent) shelling Russia. As far as the US is concerned, they’re just bankrolling a former Russian ally and neighbour to kill Russians. The only big loss was European access to Russian gas, which was a win from the US perspective.
Small suicide drones / persistent loitering munitions are great for relatively close by operational area, usually dozens of NMs, or maybe up to a couple of hundred NM. First Island Chain, sure, I think that's a goner once there is total war between China and the US, there won't be much left of Naha or any of the Luzon bases, and maybe Amami and parts of Kyushu as well.
Yeah, the US, and perhaps Japan, may lose access to certain SEA markets in the mean time, and Japan / SK would also need to reroute certain supplies over alternate routes, such as routing to the east of the Marianas, through western Caroline islands, the Banda sea, then go through Lombok to the Indian Ocean. It will be more expensive, but should avoid the bulk of the PLAN/PLAAF's reach.
I always wonder about how blocking the Malacca Strait strategy would work. If it were blocked, wouldn't that also affect both Japan and Korea? They would just be as adversely affected than China, probably worse as neither have land routes.China's biggest vulnerability would be its trade routes and sea lanes. If you look at it from a purely objective POV. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to guess where the US and its allies would choose to focus their efforts in a prolonged conflict.
It currently does not have the same capacity to do sustained deployment of large CSG away from its continental shelf. It also has very sparse over seas bases and resupply depots. Its refueling assets for the PLAAF is also a small fraction of that of the US, and cannot have large fleet of strike platforms too much beyond the first island chain. The US is also beefing up its marine expeditionary units to do air and sea control around island groups.
Given this, places like the strait of Malacca, and too lesser extent Lombok and Sunda, would be major choke points that adversaries can use to choke off trade and especially energy. Some amount of increase in over land routes could mitigate some of the issues, but at a much higher cost, and possibly some delays. Other straits like Tsushima, Batanes, and Miyako would also be choked off to some extent, although those locations would be highly contested. The Indian Ocean is another area that would even be more difficult for China to do any commerce protection and the like.
Just looking at this dispassionate way, the current platforms and force structure of China would not allow much possibility of countering those types of moves.
If they sit at near Malacca itself, that's just an invitation for repeated attrition attacks. So I think that is a trap laid by the PLA.I always wonder about how blocking the Malacca Strait strategy would work. If it were blocked, wouldn't that also affect both Japan and Korea? They would just be as adversely affected than China, probably worse as neither have land routes.