China's New Missile: A Game Changer?

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Originally Posted by Gold Eagle

If we get into it with China Walmart wouldn't be pleased. We keep pumping our money into a communist country.

Walmart should go home, to China.....I won't step a foot in the place and havn't for some time now. Plenty of struggling American mom and pop shops who need my money.

They used to advertise American Made, then Sam died.....jd

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Originally Posted by The Reaper

This game would depend on what you expect the other side to do, which is up to the leadership.

What retaliation could you expect this administration to bring to bear with a carrier sinking and a couple of thousand sailors in the water? A UN resolution? Are we willing to strike Chinese land targets over this?

What would we do if they fired it and it did not hit the carrier? Give them another chance?

What are the CoAs here?

I think that the Obama administration is weak and craven, and the other nations of the world know it.

If I were a a betting man, I would not rule out the Chinese being serious with this threat, and us getting hit without any real retaliation. Our options are limited and our leadership feckless and impotent.

Just my .02, YMMV.

TR

The danger comes when the Chinese economy starts to implode.
The leadership will need to direct the anger of a billion people somewhere outside of China.

Kinda like rich rulers in the middle east directing the anger of their people against Israel and the US.
The leadership in China will probably do whatever they feel is necessary to save their own skin.