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South China Sea: US allies urged to rush to area as China to deploy its largest (AMPHIBIOUS LANDING) ship
https://www.msn.com ^ | 4/26/2021 | Tom Hussey

Posted on 04/26/2021 7:25:54 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

Speaking earlier retired US Navy captain and now defence consultant Carl Schuster demanded Western patrols sail to the South China Sea to hold back the Chinese navy. On Friday, President Xi Jinping launched the Hainan, a type 075 amphibious assault ship that will be deployed in the South China Sea at a ceremony in Sanya, in the Hainan province. The new ship, which is now China's largest assault ship, marks Beijing's most 'ambitious' amphibious assault ship with an estimated displacement weight of about 40,000 tonnes, according to reports.

According to the South China Morning post the ship can carry an estimated 30 helicopters and hundreds of troops.

The Hainan 31 is China's first Type 075 amphibious assault ship capable of transporting almost the whole of the Chinese Marine Corps with the ability to land them in hostile territory via landing craft or helicopters as well as providing air support.

It has a full-length flight deck for helicopter operations and features a 'well deck' where hovercraft and armored amphibious assault vehicles can disembark from inside of the ship to launch an attack.

Military experts have suggested the deployment will cause concern with Taiwan and other countries in maritime disputes with China in the South China Sea.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; chinarussia; chinarussiaalliance; russiachina
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To: Seruzawa

21 posted on 04/26/2021 8:23:14 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Normandy fleet dwarfed this Chinese one. The Germans didn’t know the invasion fleet was coming. And the Germans didn’t have much of a Navy by 1944. The Germans were convinced that the invasion would happen at the Pas-de-Calais and had their main forces there. The Germans had mostly poor troops (like the PLA today) in France. Yet it was still a near run thing. The Chinese won’t enjoy any of the advantages that Allies had.

A successful invasion of Taiwan is not a done deal. Don’t fall for CCP propaganda. They are trying to get the West to give up without a fight.


22 posted on 04/26/2021 8:30:43 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: wbarmy

Tawain will eventually fall to China like Hong Kong and America by politics.


23 posted on 04/26/2021 8:38:59 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: RomanSoldier19

No matter what the CCP does, the Obamite regime will do nothing because they owe the CCP for their part in the insurrection “


24 posted on 04/26/2021 8:54:19 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: RomanSoldier19

The CCP owns the American Democrat Party lock , stock, and barrelhead. They also own the American media ,a/k/a, the Democrat Party propaganda machine.


25 posted on 04/26/2021 9:01:43 AM PDT by sport
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To: RomanSoldier19

Blah,blah,blah! 🙄


26 posted on 04/26/2021 9:25:06 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Very pretty lady. :)


27 posted on 04/26/2021 9:27:04 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Hey Australia, are you nervous yet?


28 posted on 04/26/2021 9:47:34 AM PDT by Savage Beast (“Morality, like a chameleon, tends to take on the color of the circumambient society.” P. Yogananda)
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To: wbarmy

and Three Gorges Dam is a very tempting target.

If Taiwan hit the 3 Gorges they would kill about 400 million people and receive Chinese nukes in repayment. Taiwan is not that stupid.


29 posted on 04/26/2021 9:53:23 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Stingray51

better off building thousands of small landing craft that can make the entire 100-mile journey on their own,

All ready have - its called the Chinese fishing fleet, rapers of the sea


30 posted on 04/26/2021 9:55:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RomanSoldier19

COSCO SHIPPING comprises of 1371 vessels

Mitch the turtle is all smiles


31 posted on 04/26/2021 9:56:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: blueunicorn6

“Things are going great, but we want to start a war over Taiwan because we want all of their ... semiconductor industry - the largest fabs in the world.


32 posted on 04/26/2021 9:58:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Seruzawa

“A successful invasion of Taiwan is not a done deal.”

While China has the ability to destroy Taiwan, they do not have the ability to invade against determined opposition.

Your D-Day analogy is perfect.

No surprise. No air dominance. No sea dominance. And more ocean to cross.

Even IF they were able to cross, a million men with rifles await them in the mountains of Taiwan.


33 posted on 04/26/2021 10:26:35 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: wbarmy

Actually, I think China will just be patient and wait for the pro-unification party to gain power in Taiwan. I think the red carpet will be rolled out for the CCP.


34 posted on 04/26/2021 10:50:22 AM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: PIF

If you are the leadership in Taiwan, and the Chinese are attacking, what do you think the leadership’s chances are if they are taken alive?

The only good threat is one that you will actually do. And if the Chinese think Taiwan will knock out the damn, they will think twice about attacking.


35 posted on 04/26/2021 10:57:22 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: sport

You can include most of the GOPE in this ownership along with our intelligence community. They know the CCP is our main threat and that Trump was engaging them and yet they rigged the election for BiteMe who is a CCP butt boy. Right now the US military is being infiltrated by the CCP at the upper command staff level and they will not suggest a fight with their good friends in Peking.

The CCP’s neighbors should be highly concerned at this point Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, South Korea and Japan etc... If we were smart we would put a permanent allied fleet in the South China Sea and poke the CCP in the eye from Indonesia to the northern Sea of Japan. This fleet serves as a trip wire, it lets the CCP know we don’t recognize their territorial claims and it offers a military response to any Chinese aggression-if we are willing to use it.

If the CCP decides to take Taiwan and we offer any resistance they will hit Guam, Okinawa, Diego Garcia and any other US facility they think can mount a defense or an offensive operation against them, also we will be hit with a cyber attack in critical areas with threats of massive attacks on the US mainland systems. BiteMe will probably apologize for us being there and we cut and run with our tails tucked. I can’t see the current US military joint chiefs fighting back against anyone except evil conservative insurrectionists.


36 posted on 04/26/2021 11:16:08 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: wbarmy

Phff - most off the leadership will depart for their villas in other countries come to that.

And Taiwan will be a smoldering radioactive heap - that threat is hollow. So no taking out the 3 gorges dam, a perennial favorite target on FR ... no so much anywhere else.

No one wants to be remembered for murdering 400 million people and murdering the entire population of their own country. Just a stupid idea.


37 posted on 04/26/2021 12:11:17 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Why does anyone care what retired O 6 thinks ?


38 posted on 04/26/2021 12:17:19 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox )
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To: wbarmy; shanover

Chicom control of Hong Kong was set by treaty with the British. There was no way for the former territory to resist.


39 posted on 04/26/2021 1:00:06 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Stingray51

Except China like Russia loves “BIG” projects.


40 posted on 04/26/2021 1:31:52 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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