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Originally Posted by Daradon
So Cap, just curious, guess you missed my post. Is the Chinese force there to be a show against the recent US build up, or is it for a possible sortie against NK? Or are the just flexing cause everyone in the area is flexing and they're obviously next door.
They're in a really weird situation.
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The American's and Chinese have been talking at a high level through this crisis. China has come out publicly and blasted the NK government and Kim. Currently relations between NK could be classified as cold and hardly correct.
My guess is that the Chinese are doing this to pressure the NK government into backing down.
However that doesn't mean that the Chinese would back off if the SK and Americans went after NK. There are too many benefits for China in having control over that country. Its one of the richest sources of strategic minerals in the world, there are open water ports that the Chinese Navy can use to exert control over the sea of Japan and the China sea. Plus if they did decide to install a puppet government in North Korea the first thing that they would do is re-arm it and retrain their troops so the South Koreans would suddenly be faced with a strong modern army.
If China who is rapidly building up their navy and submarine forces and increasing the production of amphibious assault ships decided to ever make their move on Taiwan or the resource rich islands, if they had control of North Korean ports they would be able to exert tremendous pressure on Japan, make it very tough for Americans to bring their navy and air assets to bear due to China owning that entire ocean area.
They could right now invade North Korea take out the government, decommission the nuclear program and flood NK with food and medicine on T.V., normalize relations with South Korea in terms of trade and they would be on the side of angels, they would also claim ownership over the Asiatic Waterways and be able to put a modern well armed million man army on the ground staffed by Koreans in North Korea.
If you play that scenario, China can't lose in any way and American resolve would only go so far and they would lose the ability to project force to one of the most important areas of the world.
China to me is going to be looking for a reason to go.