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In reply to the discussion: Satellite images show China built mock-ups of US warships [View all]EX500rider
(10,810 posts)37. Except the US is not dredging up islands in the Caribbean and then calling it US territory.
That's why other Navies are also doing freedom of the seas passages thru the area.
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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