The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), foreground, and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) conduct dual aircraft carrier strike group operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area. (Mass Communication Spec. 3rd Class Jake Greenberg/U.S. Navy)
Daniel R. DePetris, National Interest: Would China Really Try to Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier?
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Forty years ago this New Year’s Day, one of the most historic moments in the history of U.S. diplomacy occurred: the United States and the People’s Republic of China ended their thirty-year estrangement and established formal diplomatic relations with one another. The exchange of ambassadors and opening up of embassies in Washington and Beijing was one of the crowning achievements of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, the end result of diplomatic spadework sparked by President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger seven years earlier.
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WNU editor: Does China want to find itself in a full fledged war where nuclear weapons would probably be used? That is what would happen if a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier was deliberately targeted by China. But just in case China does get that itch to attack a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy is ready .... A Chinese admiral said his country should 'attack' US supercarriers with new weapons, but the US Navy is already scrambling to counter the threat (Business Insider).
11 comments:
China is not going to attack the U.S. There's too much at stake for that. At the same time, China will vigorously defend its sovereignty and so there's a limit to how much nose poking they'll tolerate from the U.S. So far we're not close to that limit. I hope we never get there but while the focus is on China, there are foolish people on the US side who could push us there as well.
No
China would never survive. The full brunt of NATO and the US would crush it within days.Xi's face would melt that very same day from a nuclear radiation zone close by.. Al the Asian countries that hate China - from India (1bn strong itself) to Vietnam to Japan and Australia would all jump in and join the beating. The world would make an example of Xi so fast it wouldn't even be a story next week anymore haha
we will give them to China to pay for our debts
The US military pays more attention to capabilities than intentions. Is China capable of sinking a capitol ship? Yes they are.
So that informs how they go about FON exercises.
Hearing some admiral spout off about doing it means nothing. It's Chinese capabilities and actions the USN will observe and react too.
Anyone who thinks NATO will intervene in a USA-China cage match doesn't now a thing about NATO today. There is not one NATO member that has the firepower needed to help the US fight against China. Besides China will threaten trade deals with Germany, France, Great Britain to keep them neutral.
Trump understands this and has asked what's in it for the US to fund European defenses when they are of no value to the US in its century long confrontation with China, a threat greater then the Soviet Union during its hay day.
Russia, China, Iran are all threats to our nation...all three
Nato outside of U.S. forces would be hard pressed to provide 20 warships and not much else to the Asian theater. And as long as the fighting was limited to the South China Sea theater with no attacks on mainland China or U.S. there would be no nuclear exchange same as Korea and Vietnam.
The world would be bickering amongst itself for weeks on what if any action to take.
The NATO members,ALL have potent submarine forces more than capable of creating artificial reefs.
I agree, if its geographically contained, nuke shmuke
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