Fear grips US Commanders as any battle with China which
happens to be the Asian powerhouse could result to the defeat of the US
military.
The Chinese government is angry regarding President Trump’s
alleged heavy handed strategy towards the South China Sea, which is a billion
dollar trade route.
The Chinese government are annoyed with the US government because
White House is mounting heavy pressure to have a say over the resource-rich
stretch of sea, the move has made analyst to sound notes of warning that the US
government has bitten more than they can chew.
In line with any eventuality, the Chinese government has
built a missile-packed military stronghold around the Chinese territory, with
island being built to serve as stationary aircraft carriers by Xi Jinping
government
The essence of the fortified islands are to shoot aircrafts
out of the sky and also sink forthcoming war ships. The move has therefore
created huge worry for US commanders.
For several months now, the Chinese people have repeatedly
stressed that only war could make them to vacate the islands, apparently their
ability to go up against one of the world’s biggest Naval forces.
"Some China-watchers have said that China plays Go (a
game of position), while America tends to be a poker player — daring its
opponents to call its bets," Commander Thomas Shugart, a submarine warfare
officer in the US Navy said.
"By staking out its bold new positions in the South
China Sea, China’s goal may be to up the ante to a point where the United
States is faced with a tough choice: put a pile of chips on the table and risk
huge losses or fold up its cards and go home.
"The United States should do what it takes now to
ensure that the game doesn’t get to that point."
Mr Shugart while speaking to the Daily Star stated that the
US must "dramatically accelerate" the position of high-tech weapons
to the region in order to stop China's dominance.
Saying that any obliviousness of China’s ever expanding
technical arsenal could lead to loss for Trump’s troops.
Artificial islands built by China, and contested by its
neighbours, each contain a 10,000 foot runaway, deep water harbours for
warships, and hangers for fighters, bombers, and spy aircraft.
One island - Mischief Reef - is almost as big as Washington,
DC. Today, China is been hoping to create “floating” nuclear power plants.
Commander Shugart further stated that "The potential
combination of China’s premier anti-ship and anti-air capabilities — along with
the sheer, breathtaking scale of China’s island-building — call for serious
consideration of the faux islands’ potential impact to US diplomacy and contingency
planning, as well as the need to take all possible measures to prevent their
full militarisation.
"China is clearly placing a massive bet on their new
island bases."
Commander Shugart said the missile are likely in place- and
ready to be fired.
"China would now be able to strike, with either DF-21C
land-attack ballistic missiles or CJ-10 cruise missiles, US and allied
facilities and airfields throughout the Philippines and even to Singapore,” he
said.”
"Those who lead the Peoples’ Liberation Army are not
fools. They will take measures to ensure their bases have a chance of surviving
in combat long enough to matter."
"China’s island bases are being built from scratch in
the era of precision strike and are therefore able to have appropriate
countermeasures 'baked in' from the start."
Nevertheless, tough talk from Trump’s aides has suggested
the US has no plans to bow to Beijing.
Steve Bannon, White House chief strategist, said:
"We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years.
"There’s no doubt about that. They’re taking their
sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles
on those.
"They come here to the US in front of our face – and
you understand how important face is – and say it’s an ancient territorial
sea.”
