tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post4804512898285284299..comments2024-03-16T09:11:27.097-04:00Comments on GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD: Royal Navy Versus China?GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-89968569530626208542017-01-15T08:27:29.637-05:002017-01-15T08:27:29.637-05:00Over two-thirds of the shipping in the South China...Over two-thirds of the shipping in the South China Sea is either heading towards Chinese ports or coming from them, so if anyone has an interest in keeping the shipping lanes open it is China. The US/Japanese interest would be in closing them.<br /><br />The UK, of course, has become a joke, even in Europe. It maintains a single tank regiment with 56 tanks, barely enough to control the Muslims in Birmingham. Some of its newest ships can't operate in hot climates, like the Persian Gulf. By the 2020s, China will have three to four carriers, two of them similar to the Nimitz class and two Kuznetsov class. And dozens of frigates and destroyers, all armed with the latest anti-ship missiles, and covered by land-based missiles and strike aircraft. The US Navy itself will be hard pressed to maintain a presence under those conditions. The Brits are totally delusional.sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-78145995370599667122017-01-13T18:42:06.467-05:002017-01-13T18:42:06.467-05:00Right on! It will be suicidal of GB to play hero. ...Right on! It will be suicidal of GB to play hero. Maybe they are trying to curry favour with the US of A. For what? - it is hard to fathom. But you don't take on China whom you want to do business with, surely not with one who is no push over militarily. It is even foolish of Trump to try to show that he could teach China a lesson. Trump would be better off trying to secure the borders of his own country against ISIS. We are not even sure he could do that successfully. If you can't even take on the terrorists and defeat them, what hope do you have of cowing a fellow nuclear power and one that is today the world's largest economy on PPP basis? China has so much at stake economically they won't take any threat to their well being lightly. America and the rest of the world have to learn that no one has the divine right to being the perpetual sole super power. China is in fact an old hand at being the world's preeminent world power for much of the past thousands of years. The US of A is a newcomer by contrast. China's rise today is merely a reassertion of their past preeminence. But history has shown that in the Chinese case - unlike the west's - trade was more important to them than bossing and colonising others. ordinary malaysianhttp://lifeasanordinarymalaysian.blogspot.mynoreply@blogger.com