China Welcomes Kerry’s Unease Over Pivot
At his Senate confirmation hearing last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed caution over the Obama administration’s ‘pivot’ to East Asia, warning that it risked unnecessarily antagonizing a wary China. The Council on Foreign Relations’ Elizabeth Economy argues ...
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Since 1950,China has been subjected to US nuclear blackmail.The US has an assured destruction capability with China but not the Chinese.The PLA can cause massive and unacceptable damage . The ferocious Chinese build up can traced to 1996 whentwo carriers scared the butts of the top PLA brass.
The PLA is not a threat to US national security. The US has 20000 nw which can pulverise and destroy China.The Chinese are reacting to this by making sure the US will pay an un acceptable price shd it press the nuclear button.As noted the US homeland and assets were immune from retalitaion when the USattackedIraq/Afghanistan and even in Vietnam.
Any attack on China will invite chinese retaliation.In time to come the PLA will have the means to have the US carriers made irrelevant. What would the US do if Chinese carriers loiter off the California coast?
That time will come soon unless the US uses the Japs to provoke China into a war.If it were 1950 or even 2008,the price for US victory will be modest ,Not now.Believe me,it will be unbelievableeven.if China is turned into a big massive wasteland.As for US I want the Pentagon to report to the WH the scale of US damage..