Cross-strait relations

Trump's whole thing is projecting strength though, and backing down from China after all his "tough on China" rhetoric would make him look weak as hell Honestly think his ego wouldn't let him just roll over, especially if Xi tried to pull something that obvious More on reddit.com

Jesus Christ, he’s actually trying to goad him into it. What a fucking ghoul. More on reddit.com

Fundamentally the reason why China will not win a war with the US is because its military is not actually oriented to fight a war, at all. It's organized in such a way as to prevent coups, and to have all the shiny new weapons to try and deter other nations from trying their luck in a war with them. China today is either the leading or atleast major manufacturer in many advanced technologies, from robotics to electric vehicles to solar panels and wind turbines, computers, smart phones, semiconductors or ships. And those are stolen from US designs and IP by and large. If war were to begin, China could shift to producing military vessels, while US would far more struggle to do so. China's shipyards aren't really geared towards making dedicated military vessels. Most of them are civilian shipyards that produce ships that are dual use - think a ferry that's set up to move civilians from point A to point B, but in a war could also be used to transport tanks. while for the past few decades US has been struggling to build frigates, latest example being the cancellation of the Constellation-programme. The Constellation got canned largely because the Arleigh-Burke is so fucking incredible that there's not really much of a need to have anything else. Depending, perhaps, on what form the Trump-class Battleship takes (likely a big platform for a lot of VLS cells that functions as a forward command post type ship is my prediction). China is currently building a Type 004 nuclear aircraft carrier, which could match US carriers in tonnage, while also have advanced tech such as Electromagnetic catapults. We don't actually know how reliable their aircraft carriers are because they've never seen combat. American aircraft carriers have. China could use ballistic or hypersonic missiles, which China has far more than the US, to harass and potentially sink US carrier groups. The last time a hostile nation sunk a bunch of our big ships all at once we dropped two atomic bombs on their major cities. Don't touch the boats. Sinking an aircraft carrier would probably provoke a nuclear response. China also would have access to large number of ground-based aircraft, including 5th gen stealth J-20s and in few years potentially even 6th gen fighter jets. None of these have been tested in combat and for all we know they're garbage that exists to show off as a wunderwaffen but will break down the moment they're actually deployed in real combat. The largest airforce in the world is the USAF. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy. The third is the Russian airforce. The fourth is the US Army, and the fifth is the US Marine Corps. China doesn't even make the top five. It is assumed that China also could use it's massive ballistic missile reserves to damage or destroy US or it's allies airfields in the Pacific and South China sea region, which in practise could limit the amount of fighter jets US could bring to the region. While we're at it might as well assume that the US can use its B-2 stealth bombers to damage or destroy the Three Gorges Dam which would in practice lead to 30+ million people dead in a matter of hours. There are reports that Chinese missile officers are stealing the solid fuel from their missiles to use for fires to make hotpot; that a very large portion of the missile fleet is completely inoperable. More on reddit.com

I mean we would be able to see it right? Few weeks maybe months ahead by them moving troops and equipment? More on reddit.com