Witty Rejoinder said:

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

There’s lots of stuff that goes on out in those far western reaches.

wait are land targets with known locations easier to hit than assets of the greatest miliary force in the world doing their thing

I think you are underestimating the ability of the PLAN to locate a 300,000 tonne vessel.

Yeah maybe, we’re not really wanting to see 5000 peeps sunk by some rockets from any side, but as some have noted CHINA has a history of being fat and weak (exempli gratia see previous references to opium wars andor recent world wars), so even beyond sinking 5000 peeps we’re wary of a possible outcome where all the gong beating turns out to be bosfaeces and a bunch of fascists with no qualms about bombing anyone else decides to thermonuclearise 1500000000 peeps and there’s no credible preventative measure.