Xi Jinping Calls for China to create 'world-class military' as he targets Taiwan

They just launched their 3rd carrier (vs 11 US), so they are nowhere near compared to US. The number of vessels is meaningless, only their offensive capability aka firepower matters. US Ships carry more than twice the number of missiles, and that does not even count the aircraft, and their firepower. Each of 11 US carriers can carry up to 130 aircraft (although at peacetime 70 is closer to norm). Chines carriers can handle 40.

 

good luck telling german, aussie, etc on what can they sell to china or not. no body want to be told what their country can do/dont. also those job just goto india/vietnam, it already does. btw alot product manufacture in vietnam/SE asia/india is own by CHINA. even some the factories in mexico are own by chinese businese man, you gonna put tariff on all those countries lol

 

doesn't matter, they dont have base/logistic to invade hawaii, let alone US mainland. they need pass 1st island chain, then the 2nd island chain, then to hit midway/hawaii.

 

If it is made or owed by China under this scenario then it would receive a tariff. More countries than you think would likely join.

And no one should be told, if they want to finance the communist nation that is partnering with terrorist nations and threatening their independent neighbors then so be it.

 

China is currently securing resources, rare materials and building out territories and bases. They are selling Chinese labor to countries who will pay them. If countries default or cannot pay, China exchanges the money for bases and ports. It's clever and it's working. A lot of countries like to deal with China because they don'y have to lift a finger to get things done. The downside is that the local populations of these countries never actually learn how to properly do things. In many cases, building roads, etc takes engineering skill. China brings in the skills and never trains the host country on to accomplish such tasks. They come, they build, they collect money and they leave.

The US on the other hand would spend exhorbent amounts of taxpayer money to try and train countries to be skilled and to be self suffient. In many many cases, it was a complete and total waste. The US has an outdated and broken philosophy on how to build nations.

China knows that the best war is to economically strangle your enemy very slowly and put them in a position of weakness. China has never had an ally like Joe Biden and they will never risk an all out war while being able to do whatever they want for "small" payments to him and his family.

 

By number of ships but not by ability, range, or tonnage. The vast majority of their ships are tiny and only have a 400 mile range in combat conditions.