Before the yelling begins, yes China will defeat Taiwan, no matter what, they will spend whatever currency they need to; people, treasure, morale, foreign goodwill, etc., to take Taiwan.
However, that ship and any other will end up at the bottom of the straits because Taiwan has a whole lot of anti-ship missiles and will sink a whole lot of ships. They also have some longer range missiles and Three Gorges Dam is a very tempting target.
China will(IMHO) not do this. They will make the leadership and people an offer they can’t refuse, and take it peacefully, just like Hong Kong. Maybe an autonomous region for the lifetime of the people there, and then full control over the next generation.
Ping.
If they can avoid bouncing off any cargo ships in the area...
Step back for a moment and analyze the problem of landing PLA troops in Taiwan. The use of amphibious assault ships would be many steps downstream from an initial invasion.
Meanwhile, communist China continues to build on its increasingly close military alliance with Russia, the two having carried out numerous large-scale joint war games over the past 15+ years. The larger alliance includes, China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, other hard left regimes.
It seems to me that for purposes of invading Taiwan, Red China would be better off building thousands of small landing craft that can make the entire 100-mile journey on their own, than a few massive ships like this one.
I don't think retired people gone consultant get to demand things
Why in the world would China want to spill blood over Taiwan?
“Things are going great, but we want to start a war over Taiwan because we want all of their.....well.....uh.....their.....oh hell, they don’t really have anything we want. We just want death and destruction because my Grandpa is still mad.”
Beware war with a country that has reason to lose a substantial fraction of their male population.
They can build lots of shiny landing ships. But getting them across the straits of Taiwan are another matter.
No matter what the CCP does, the Obamite regime will do nothing because they owe the CCP for their part in the insurrection “
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.
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Hey Australia, are you nervous yet?
Why does anyone care what retired O 6 thinks ?