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The Sun has made a scary claim about China’s container ships
American Thinker ^ | 7 Dec, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 12/07/2021 3:56:24 AM PST by MtnClimber

Most of the Western world has transferred its manufacturing sectors to China. Every single day, Chinese container ships ply the world’s oceans, fanning out to every continent except, maybe, for Antarctica. We’ve long known that those ships are carrying cheap goods and the West’s economic destruction, but The Sun is contending that those same ships are likely to be disguised missile launchers.

Here’s the main part of the story, although you should visit The Sun to read the whole thing:

CHINA has been secretly developing Trojan Horse-style missiles hidden in shipping containers that can be unleashed on enemy ports, experts warn.

Military analysts believe the country’s huge fleet of freighters and fishing vessels could be turned into warships with the use of the secretive container missiles.

Disguised as a regular shipping containers, they can be sneaked on board a vessel to blend in seamlessly with the hundreds of others on board.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: andreawidburg; ccp; china; communism; japan; russia; sovietunion
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1 posted on 12/07/2021 3:56:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
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While China’s military is playing for keeps, our military leaders are playing with cross dressing.


2 posted on 12/07/2021 3:56:37 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Just copying already perfected Russian missile system that went operational a decade ago.


3 posted on 12/07/2021 4:00:36 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Iran, china, and Russia have forces here now..we are just too hopeful to see death cults will be death cults..they all take your freedom, tell you what you should be, kill everything they touch, and then blame their enemies, they need surgical removal for the cancer to die, its too.late, war is here covid is first wave..I’d say nuke china today before they are stronger..


4 posted on 12/07/2021 4:02:34 AM PST by aces (and )
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Most of the Western world has transferred its manufacturing sectors to China

And the Free Traitors still refuse to apologize to the American middle class.

5 posted on 12/07/2021 4:03:07 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: MtnClimber

I was saying that they would do this ten years ago. Just imagine all those ships parked off of California right now. Even if only a handful of them are missile launchers, it will be a bad day for us.


6 posted on 12/07/2021 4:04:47 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s good psyops. Make every Chinese container ship suspect.

Will completely destroy belt and road.


7 posted on 12/07/2021 4:10:37 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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“While China’s military is playing for keeps, our military leaders are playing with cross dressing.”

The key question for the US military is to quit asking about peoples sexuality and feelings and start asking, if they were China, how would you take Taiwan.

Taiwan is vulnerable. The reward would be the same as Adolf Hitler taking Austria (he needed the gold in the banks), they need the chip manufacturing. Thus, it’s a obtainable strategic and financial target.

First, I would attempt to get countries to not recognize it. Politically, that would delay rescue long enough for me to take the island and control it. By then it wouldn’t matter. Pay off a few politicians worldwide, maybe make deals with families of important people, and you could achieve that delay. Think Hunter Biden.

Next, I would disguise the invasion. Troops loaded in containers and transported to ships. Container ships, with cranes to offload equipment for the initial assault. Container ships with missiles for surface to air and surface to surface support. Finally, literally zillions of drones for ground support and anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare. All coherently coordinated with AI. I would overfly their airspace to make them believe it would be a military invasion, that they could see coming.

Then I would drive the container ships to at least three beachheads in out of the way places. Something like Red Storm Rising but with drones, multiple beachheads.

By the time the US and other nations got by the paid off politicians and acted, it would probably be over with. Then, with the entire chip manufacturing and other manufacturing, the world would have to pound sand.

That’s probably how I would do it.


8 posted on 12/07/2021 4:15:00 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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The serious problem with your scenario....you’d have to track and target virtually every single Chinese freighter....which means world logistics come to a halt, and if you thought you had a shortage problem right now....this is just the top portion of ice berg.


9 posted on 12/07/2021 4:18:21 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: MtnClimber

Its all sci-fi until they find one.

The Sun article is full of mights coulds and maybes.

BUT...its a great idea if you are trying to win without an all out fight. Couple this with the idea of the Chinese running port operations and it could be a real horror sh^t show.


10 posted on 12/07/2021 4:18:52 AM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJB/LGB community. /s is implied where applicable..)
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Anyone remember the Palwrno Senator incident from 2002...

The ship was boarded off the coast of NJ.

Its next port of call after NYC would have been Norfolk.


11 posted on 12/07/2021 4:19:08 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Palermo Senator...


12 posted on 12/07/2021 4:20:53 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: JonPreston

They got their money and they don’t care.
Free market FReepers applaud.


13 posted on 12/07/2021 4:21:33 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber
If China were to attack the U.S., its targets of destruction would be limited. Why destroy good assets that they can use (and, for the most part, already own)?

That said, they might want to raze some city slums and downtowns. That would demonstrate their capabilities and clean out some rat nests.

14 posted on 12/07/2021 4:21:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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They never saw the foreign policy implications of a strong, belligerent communist China.


15 posted on 12/07/2021 4:28:15 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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And the Free Traitors still refuse to apologize to the American middle class.

The American middle class made it happen.

When you refuse to pay 10% more for Made in the USA you don't leave the manufacturers much choice.

The bogeyman is us.

16 posted on 12/07/2021 4:29:10 AM PST by semimojo
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To: JonPreston

Or money and selfishness were more important to them.
Either way, here we are…


17 posted on 12/07/2021 4:37:22 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Yawn I can’t see this happening, it is possible but probably just be easier to launch missiles from a satellite, not even sure if that might be just on the edge of fantasy too.


18 posted on 12/07/2021 4:37:44 AM PST by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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“The bogeyman is us.”

Ding ding ding ! Right on . But folks keep blaming China . US always searching for a bogeyman to blame for their own greed , power hungriness , etc...


19 posted on 12/07/2021 4:37:54 AM PST by sushiman
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Russia has a similar program with their oil tankers and container fleet. Other countries such as Iran also have similar ideas.


20 posted on 12/07/2021 4:37:58 AM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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