This week, ahead of America’s top defense official’s sit-down with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday, the US sent two B-52 Stratofortress bombers on a flight near contested islands in the South China Sea, in the latest sign of rising tensions.
The aircraft “participated in a routine training mission in the vicinity of the South China Sea,” a statement from the US Air Force said. The flight was part of the US military’s “Continuous Bomber Presence operations,” the statement added, as reported by CNN.
In response to the report, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said that China resolutely opposes using the pretext of “freedom of navigation” to disrupt regional peace and stability.
“We will take the necessary measures to protect our sovereignty and security interests,” Lu warned.
Against this backdrop, US Defense Secretary James Mattis met with his Chinese counterpart, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, in Singapore on Thursday.
The meeting came after Beijing canceled a high-level military-to-military meeting last month in response to US sanctions placed on Chinese entities for purchasing weapons from Russia.
“Both acknowledged that the meeting itself was significant and that high-level communication can help,” Randal Schriver, a US assistant secretary of defense, was quoted by Reuters as saying. “So I think it was productive in that regard.”
“Two nuclear-armed powers with regional, if not global, interests – we need to make sure that when we step on one another’s toes, it doesn’t escalate into something that would be catastrophic,” Schriver said.
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***200 warheads***
Well… that’s what they like for us to think…
As early as 2000, a U of Singapore study estimated, already, that Beijing have an arsenals of some 2000 warheads…
Similarly, in 2010 or somewhat later, a George Washington U study, dedicated to Chinese matters, suggested China’s stockpikes to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3500 hidden in this underground wall or shelter that stretches for thousands of miles.
Well, my educated guess of China’s true arsenal, “given the threat she faces from her northern flank”, Russia, alone is in the 1500 range.
Similarly, to act as any kind of a meaningful deterent against Sammy Jr., another 1500 is absolutely necessary.
Then there’re the ACNE 3’s and ACNE 5’s, and, of course, NATO forces that Beijing must prepare itself for. Another 1500 there.
In all, AND REASONABLY SPEAKING, we should have anywhere between 4500 to 5000 nukes, and yes we can afford it and we do have sufficient weapons grade plutoniums to muster it either through import of domestically produced…
China is not dumb. The West knows full well she isn’t. But, would they let us mere mortals in on that secret?
Of couese not. It does not serve any of their purposes to let us in on that stuff…
For a time, USSR had over 20000 nukes which her economy and her resources seemingly just don’t support but she did have such an arsenal…
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***200 warheads***
Well… that’s what they like for us to think…
As early as 2000, a U of Singapore study estimated, already, that Beijing have an arsenals of some 2000 warheads…
Similarly, in 2010 or somewhat later, a George Washington U study, dedicated to Chinese matters, suggested China’s stockpikes to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3500 hidden in this underground wall or shelter that stretches for thousands of miles.
Well, my educated guess of China’s true arsenal, “given the threat she faces from her northern flank”, Russia, alone is in the 1500 range.
Similarly, to act as any kind of a meaningful deterent against Sammy Jr., another 1500 is absolutely necessary.
Then there’re the ACNE 3’s and ACNE 5’s, and, of course, NATO forces that Beijing must prepare itself for. Another 1500 there.
In all, AND REASONABLY SPEAKING, we should have anywhere between 4500 to 5000 nukes, and yes we can afford it and we do have sufficient weapons grade plutoniums to muster it either through import of domestically produced…
China is not dumb. The West knows full well she isn’t. But, would they let us mere mortals in on that secret?
Of couese not. It does not serve any of their purposes to let us in on that stuff…
For a time, USSR had over 20000 nukes which her economy and her resources seemingly just don’t support but she did have such an arsenal…
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Man!!!…
The civil war white America is about to have is a good indicator in that respect. It’s the very byproducts of a people’s arrogance…
The SUN will rise and set on all empires young and old past abd present and, 200 years, I must say, is pretty geriatric number…
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Man!!!…
The civil war white America is about to have is a good indicator in that respect. It’s the very byproducts of a people’s arrogance…
The SUN will rise and set on all empires young and old past abd present and, 200 years, I must say, is pretty geriatric number…
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The USN may think they are subbing their nose at us with those B-52 muscle flexings, but…
How many of them would remain in the air if the Chinese would take evassive action and ordered fighters that was shadowing them take live actions?
Of course, they’ve calculated that the Chinese just isn’t going to take ant such erotic and such irrational action when they went for the political capitals tgey are sure to gain at home and abroad…
But, incidents happens, as in EP-3 for instance…
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The USN may think they are subbing their nose at us with those B-52 muscle flexings, but…
How many of them would remain in the air if the Chinese would take evassive action and ordered fighters that was shadowing them take live actions?
Of course, they’ve calculated that the Chinese just isn’t going to take ant such erotic and such irrational action when they went for the political capitals tgey are sure to gain at home and abroad…
But, incidents happens, as in EP-3 for instance…
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"Marc Cohen" is not your real name. Probably a Chinese troll.
"Marc Cohen" is not your real name. Probably a Chinese troll.
Understand now! You are a leftwing liberal to the USA’s North. Use to your kind here in America too!
Understand now! You are a leftwing liberal to the USA’s North. Use to your kind here in America too!
Jason Jean, Or Saskatoon in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan or Shanghai, Tokyo, and the list goes on. Not sure of your point.
Jason Jean, Or Saskatoon in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan or Shanghai, Tokyo, and the list goes on. Not sure of your point.
John Hammond, I was speaking of when the US Military became involved in the Pacific during World War 2 in a very dramatic way. All because of Japan forced America into this conflict laying claim to territories much like China is doing in the South China Sea.
John Hammond, I was speaking of when the US Military became involved in the Pacific during World War 2 in a very dramatic way. All because of Japan forced America into this conflict laying claim to territories much like China is doing in the South China Sea.
Kevin-Maricko McCoy you’re missing how the 11-dash line was filed with the U.N. by the Republic of China government in 1946 and that the U.S. recognized it as sovereign Chinese territory, even going so far as to ask the KMT government for permission when they would send their military ships into the South China Sea. The U.S. doesn’t have a principled position in the South China Sea as they have no problems with Vietnam’s claims (which are almost as large as China’s), nor do they have problems with the fact that Vietnam has militarily occupied 30+ islands and reefs in the SCS; far more than China’s 7 disputed islands. The U.S.’s problem is that their explicit "China containment strategy" which Obama explicity referenced in a speech was contingent upon their allies encroaching upon and occupying the vast majority of islands and reefs in the SCS.