Comment section of this video about China’s new aircraft carrier Fujian. More on that here : https://lemmygrad.ml/post/283921
Comment section of this video about China’s new aircraft carrier Fujian. More on that here : https://lemmygrad.ml/post/283921
On a serious note: why does China need carriers to begin with? I understand why USA needed them (enforcing their status over the globe), but China doesn’t appear to have an interest in colonialism
I think it’s a flex. And not just for ego/pride reasons.
They’re showing the world and the world public that their military technology is not only on-par with the U.S. improving rapidly, but also starting to surpass it. Public opinion does matter in that regard because a state’s ability to wage war hinges on public war support. This is also why Western media is working so hard to poo-poo this development.
And of course carriers are superfluous to China’s current military doctrine but strategic agility and flexibility is a luxury they can afford now, and given the volatility of current circumstances it’s arguably a necessity, not a luxury.
One of the main advantages of a multipolar world is that the powers deter one another from intervention, which allows places like South America to have their leftist movements without getting couped or invaded. China needs to be able to project power eventually as they step into that role.
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To establish naval control over the surrounding sea.
Can’t they do that with missile submarines and cruisers, now that they’re leading in hypersonic technology?
I don’t know enough about weaponry and military to answer that, but clearly aircraft carriers do serve an important role. Also what @Munrock@lemmygrad.ml said.
Well the current thinking is that while carriers have a lot of utility in power projection, they’re made redundant against entities with hypersonic missile technology. So in the theorhetical situation of a hot war between China and the US that doesn’t go straight to nuclear apocalypse, the Carrier battle groups will be immediately irrelevant as they’re too easy to blow out of the water.
So Chinese Carriers aren’t a direct threat to the US. They’re a threat to its ability to intervene with impunity. A symbol of the end of a unipolar world order.
An odd statement. Im trying to understand how a weapon platform is inherently imperialistic. Or at least a warship.
Just repeating an idea I’ve seen either here or on Reddit GZD. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on modern war, or any warfare in general.
Liberating Taiwan! Protecting the Islands near Australia or say Latin American countries trying to break the shackles of imperialism. The carriers demonstrates that now China has the ability and probably will intervene if West doesn’t stop what it’s been doing for decades.