That’s great, but all the US or even a regional power like India needs to do is to cut off or intercept oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf or entering the Malacca straight and China’s war machine would grind to a halt within a year.
China may have the world’s largest navy but only a few dozen of their ships are large enough to project power away from their coastline.
The carriers and ships they do have that can project power will need to travel through a handful of choke points making them targets for air and sea power.
China knows this, which is why they’ve stayed their hand when it comes to Taiwan.
Yes the flow of consumer goods will stop to the US and will be painful and there is much we need to do to rebuild our manufacturing base. But China isn’t going to be able to ramp up production to bury us.
That’s great, but all the US or even a regional power like India needs to do is to cut off or intercept oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf or entering the Malacca straight and China’s war machine would grind to a halt within a year.
China may have the world’s largest navy but only a few dozen of their ships are large enough to project power away from their coastline.
The carriers and ships they do have that can project power will need to travel through a handful of choke points making them targets for air and sea power.
China knows this, which is why they’ve stayed their hand when it comes to Taiwan.
Yes the flow of consumer goods will stop to the US and will be painful and there is much we need to do to rebuild our manufacturing base. But China isn’t going to be able to ramp up production to bury us.