Is China's Navy A 'Paper-Tiger'?

China’s Real Blue Water Navy -- Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins, The Diplomat

China is building a two-layered navy with a high-end Near Seas component and a limited, low-end capability beyond. It is not poised to speed across the Pacific to threaten America.

China’s navy is not poised to speed across the Pacific to threaten America the way the Soviet Union once did, if not worse. This despite Peter Navarro and Greg Autry’s over-the-top polemic, Death by China: Confronting the Dragon—A Global Call to Action, in which they claim that “[T]he People’s Republic is moving forward at Manhattan Project speed to develop a blue water navy capable of challenging the U.S. Navy.”

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My comment: China's Navy may appear insignificant when compared to the U.S. Navy .... but their goal is to have a blue navy that will be able to project Chinese power and influence far from it's shores. Their planning spans decades, and I suspect that when this question is asked 30-40 years from now, the answer may surprise us.