Chinese supercarrier?
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Posts: 113 (16-Apr-2008 13:27:45) |
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bager1968 |
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Posts: 2893 (16-Apr-2008 20:35:43) |
That was posted a full year ago... and I have heard nothing since.
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FreeloaderUK |
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Posts: 117 (16-Apr-2008 22:29:02) |
so if China aren't building supercarriers, what are they playing at?
If they ever want to be treated seriously as a global superpower- they will need supercarriers |
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taschoene |
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Posts: 4193 (17-Apr-2008 03:19:09) |
The Soviets were taken plenty seriously-they never built supercarriers.
China seems to be doing remarkably well with the soft-power approach based on economic leverage. Switching to the hard-power approach based on long-range power projection would likely be counterproductive for them. |
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Admiral Beez |
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Posts: 4479 (17-Apr-2008 05:19:30) |
What would the Chinese do with carriers? They have no need to project power outside of their own waters. Besides, if they built one carrier, how often could it
be at sea? Isn't half the USN carrier fleet either at port or refit at any one time?
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seasick |
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Posts: 4589 (17-Apr-2008 05:41:23) |
A Chinese CV or CVN would be useful for menacing Taiwan and Japan. They would also be able top use it against Taiwan. A PRC invasion of Taiwan would benifit from a PRC carrier battle group cutting off aid from the east of Taiwan. |
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jim3au |
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Posts: 1449 (17-Apr-2008 06:25:06) |
Taiwan just elected a government whose policies were to go for closer relations with China and to not go for membership of the UN. Trying to invade Taiwan at
this stage is a good way of rescuing defeat from the jaws of victory.
Even planning for that eventuality is counter productive because it could scare Taiwan into spending some of her not inconsiderable reserves of foreign currency on her own defence |
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FreeloaderUK |
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Posts: 121 (18-Jul-1954 21:08:41) |
China's aim is bring Taiwan back to within its control, while the Taiwan government may be trying to be more friendly with China the population want to
keep the status quo. Taiwan is de facto an independent country- it may not have worldwide recognition but ultimately thats only because people do not want to
anger China, Taiwan is independent, its unlikely that they will give that up- China may well have to fight for it.
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Obi Wan Russell |
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Posts: 167 (18-Apr-2008 13:38:51) |
In the Taiwan context, a PLAN CVSG is not required directly to attack Taiwan itself but to prevent any outside support reaching the area, cutting off the USN
primarily. This can be done without a shot being fired (at sea) depending on how willing America would be to start a shooting war with China directly. I
don't think China intends to actually invade, but that is not to say they aren't planning to develop the capability as a negotiating tool to bring
taiwan back into the fold. Talk softly, but carry a big stick.
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emc |
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Posts: 3684 (18-Jul-1978 21:08:52) |
They just have to wait until Northrop-Grumman decides that labor costs in Newport News are too high, and moves production of supercarriers to China. I give it
15 years.
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wabpilot |
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Posts: 2020 (18-Apr-2008 15:08:46) |
FreeloaderUK wrote: Some years ago the President of the ROC said that Taiwan and the mainland would reunite someday, when the mainland had reached the same level of democracy as the ROC. |
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