Two Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) aircraft carriers are preparing to conduct a set of provocative war games in the contested South China Sea, near the Taiwan-claimed Pratas Islands, also known as the Dongsha Islands.

 

The Chinese aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong were finishing up combat readiness training in the Bohai Bay of the Yellow Sea ahead of a planned deployment near the Taiwanese territorial claims, The Daily Mail reported. 

 

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/05/reports-china-to-deploy-2-aircraft-carriers-after-brink-of-cold-war-with-us-warning/

And the posturing starts, pick your sides and stick to them.

Edited May 27, 20206 yr by tribalfusion001

Great, we are just about getting rid of C19, next is WW3. When does the asteroid hit?

Man the subs generals????

The inevitable has arrived.

Scary.

Cool, as long as they are in international waters, go for it. Perhaps we can send a few ships from various countries to watch i.e. as happens all the time 

Edited May 27, 20206 yr by Salerno

Future dive wrecks?

Posturing by Chin's .. My dollars are on America if it kicks off .. More kit and battle experience .. 

The Chinese aircraft carriers look a bit poo compared to the USA, and the British carriers have no planes lol.

 

This has been coming for a long time, the blatant disregard for international law in the South China Sea and building up those atolls is scandalous. My money is on the yanks too, the CCP don't have many powerful friends and even less after letting covid-19 spread all over the world.

4 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Posturing by Chin's .. My dollars are on America if it kicks off .. More kit and battle experience .. 

Well...nothing is going to kick off as naval exercises are part and parcel of the training of all navies.

Still it could be exciting if the USS Donald J Trump steams over the horizon with battle wigs waving in the breeze..

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