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In reply to the discussion: Satellite images show China built mock-ups of US warships [View all]Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)27. The ignorance of posters on this thread is remarkable.
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Not much concern on my part of the annual paper mache boats parade. Also don't see how
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#3
I believe it was to test their new steerable IRBM warheads ability to hit that size target. nt
EX500rider
Nov 2021
#35
AP, another problem with the recent warmongering....China does this every year.
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#2
Except the US is not dredging up islands in the Caribbean and then calling it US territory.
EX500rider
Nov 2021
#37
Yes...you get it...it's called the China Sea, not the USA Sea...for a reason.
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#47
Don't see Chinese warships plying the Gulf of Mexico, it's international waters tho, so they
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#51
It's interesting just a few weeks after we get out of Afghanistan China has become a big
doc03
Nov 2021
#9
Since America outspends the next 8 nations combined on military...who has whose balls?
Alexander Of Assyria
Nov 2021
#34
Don't over estimate them, either. The US hs more ICBM missile subs than the Chinese ...
marble falls
Nov 2021
#40
Those are the color guard. Everyone in China knows that is done for propaganda
AZLD4Candidate
Nov 2021
#23
It's hard to underestimate an army that got it's ass kicked three times by North Viet Nam ...
marble falls
Dec 2022
#53
While I don't dismiss the Chinese military as a peaceful or as a harmless paper tiger
Sapient Donkey
Nov 2021
#28
imagine that, China preparing to protect itself from a proven aggressive / rogue superpower.
KG
Nov 2021
#29
I wonder who Taiwan & India & Tibet & Philippines etc think is the "rogue superpower" in the area
EX500rider
Nov 2021
#38
I imagine it is for testing the terminal target guidance system for the DF-21D ballistic missile
EX500rider
Nov 2021
#50