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*And why would China want to bolster its navy and send it’s paltry sum of two carriers deeper into the Pacific?*
…it could be because Chinese officials in Beijing are used to opening up their daily newspapers and seeing provocative headlines like the following:
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But Washington and its regional allies are keeping a close eye on China’s rapid naval expansion, given also a third aircraft carrier has been built, the Fujian, and is currently undergoing sea trials before official active deployment. And a fourth carrier is further being constructed.
*Again, might China have real reason to worry? *And all the while the US Navy (and increasingly other Western navies) routinely send warships through the contested Taiwan Strait, typically accompanied by jingoistic statements of American neocon Congressmen threatening all-out *war* should Beijing ever attempt to unite the self-ruled island of Taiwan with the mainland.
The question remains: can most Americans find Taiwan on a map? Well, yes it’s true they might start caring when the world’s supply of semiconductors comes under direct threat, and the iPhone addicted out-of-shape masses might have to put down their devices for a moment.
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Even NATO, which is fundamentally a European, trans-*Atlantic* military alliance, is getting in on the Pacific action with an eye on China…* in China’s own backyard*.
Bloomberg reported <www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-16/nato-steps-up-naval-presence-in-western-pacific-to-counter-china> last August that “*NATO is bolstering its presence in the Western Pacific* by sending warships to more places, a move that risks stoking tensions with China, which is worried about the alliance’s growing influence in the region.”
Even Italian vessels are seeking to flex: “The latest entrant is the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour, the first time Rome has deployed its lone carrier to the Pacific. The Cavour and an Italian frigate recently held exercises with the US carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near the island of Guam. A day later, F-35 stealth jets and AV-8B Harriers launched from the Cavour,” Bloomberg wrote. *Italy?*…
*Sensationalist MSM headlines, if they were written from the opposite perspective…*
So at least from a realist and strategic point of view, China wanting to extend its carriers sphere of patrol and influence makes perfect sense. This is simply the way the world works, and how the ‘great powers’ operate.
*And why would China want to bolster its navy and send it’s paltry sum of two carriers deeper into the Pacific?*
…it could be because Chinese officials in Beijing are used to opening up their daily newspapers and seeing provocative headlines like the following:
[image: https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/strategicbasejapan.jpg?itok=qChN3GTS] <www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/strategicbasejapan.jpg?itok=qChN3GTS>
But Washington and its regional allies are keeping a close eye on China’s rapid naval expansion, given also a third aircraft carrier has been built, the Fujian, and is currently undergoing sea trials before official active deployment. And a fourth carrier is further being constructed.
*Again, might China have real reason to worry? *And all the while the US Navy (and increasingly other Western navies) routinely send warships through the contested Taiwan Strait, typically accompanied by jingoistic statements of American neocon Congressmen threatening all-out *war* should Beijing ever attempt to unite the self-ruled island of Taiwan with the mainland.
The question remains: can most Americans find Taiwan on a map? Well, yes it’s true they might start caring when the world’s supply of semiconductors comes under direct threat, and the iPhone addicted out-of-shape masses might have to put down their devices for a moment.
[image: https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/taiwanmissiles_0.jpg?itok=YlqOXo8C] <www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/taiwanmissiles_0.jpg?itok=YlqOXo8C>
Even NATO, which is fundamentally a European, trans-*Atlantic* military alliance, is getting in on the Pacific action with an eye on China…* in China’s own backyard*.
Bloomberg reported <www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-16/nato-steps-up-naval-presence-in-western-pacific-to-counter-china> last August that “*NATO is bolstering its presence in the Western Pacific* by sending warships to more places, a move that risks stoking tensions with China, which is worried about the alliance’s growing influence in the region.”
Even Italian vessels are seeking to flex: “The latest entrant is the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour, the first time Rome has deployed its lone carrier to the Pacific. The Cavour and an Italian frigate recently held exercises with the US carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near the island of Guam. A day later, F-35 stealth jets and AV-8B Harriers launched from the Cavour,” Bloomberg wrote. *Italy?*…
*Sensationalist MSM headlines, if they were written from the opposite perspective…*
So at least from a realist and strategic point of view, China wanting to extend its carriers sphere of patrol and influence makes perfect sense. This is simply the way the world works, and how the ‘great powers’ operate.
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