How would the US react if chinese ships were 120 miles off the coast of California, technically international waters? No reaction? I think not.
Hell you get pissy enough if someone approaches one of your carriers never mind how close to your territory it is.
Well technically a carrier is US territory (literally, as in it's legally considered a floating piece of the mainland US), so...
Maybe the Chinese operate under similar rules?
Nope, only the US gets to make up the rules.
Don't you know that there is a huge double standard with what all other countries do and what we do? It's all about "American Exceptionalism". We hold ourselves as superior, well except for our kids' test scores, or our healthcare costs, or our CO2 emissions, or our surveillance morality, etc., etc., etc.
Maybe the Chinese operate under similar rules?
Don't you know that there is a huge double standard with what all other countries do and what we do? It's all about "American Exceptionalism". We hold ourselves as superior, well except for our kids' test scores, or our healthcare costs, or our CO2 emissions, or our surveillance morality, etc., etc., etc.
So what? Last I checked we haven't boarded, attacked or even approached any Chinese ships. They however have been quite aggressive at approaching us, apparently to the point of playing chicken...
If it's so bad, why are you still here?
If it's so bad, why are you still here? The place you're describing sounds like a decidedly sub-standard place to live, and yet people from all over the world want to come here.
For all its problems, America is the most economically and militarily powerful single nation on the planet. Oh and our higher education is 2nd to none. We're not without our problems, but there are many exceptional things about America that are historically unprecedented. I'd still rather live here than anywhere else.
sco is more powerful. although russia is just as friendly with india as it is with china.
this is not just china vs the west or china vs the world. china has made many strategic moves, like allying with pakistan, burma, and other countries. if india is smart they will do the same, reaching out to vietnam, indonesia, thailand, the phillipines, south korea, and japan. china is building a lot of infrastructure in places like pakistan and burma. they are apparantly even talking to nepal, bhutan, and sri lanka. a book called asian juggernaut covers a lot of this.
multi polar geopolitik is getting stronger since the end of the cold war.
i wonder how much emerging space tech might play in all this. not only satillites, but asm, orbital weapons, and unmanned and manned spacecraft.
the mongols had much more territory than us. they may have been even more powerfull relativly for the time than us.
the 18th and 19th century british are probably a even better example.
Well it says in the OP that your ship was stopped near their carrier and that it was performing surveillance duties on the Chinese carrier.
Maybe it's standard practice to respond like that if a missile cruiser approaches one of your carriers?
How would the US respond?
I was born here and have never been in a job/financial position to leave.
But I've been to other places and I was amazed at how much easier it was to get around and how beautiful and clean places like Vancouver, Germany and Austria were, even in the cities.
There's no doubt China is a rising economic power. Unfortunately for them their military power is lagging seriously behind.
it rising quite fast
it rising quite fast
Meanwhile we have ten active carriers and recently christened an eleventh.
It will slow down, dramatically.
China has no hope of reaching the per capita GDP of the US. It is an impossibility just based upon energy alone. It controls nearly none domestically and can be shut down relatively easily. This is why its blustering will ultimately fail. It is in too fragile of a position to enforce anything.