China Defense Blog: Professional China-Watcher Article Of The Day: Ba...: China-Defense.com proudly presents Andrew S. Erickson and Joel Wuthnow's latest China Quarterly article "Barriers, Springboards and...
Let me de-nuance this for these clowns.
The ChiComms know that de facto space authority is directly proportional to the surface area of this planet one controls. Ergo the rapid, soon to be espresso, reach out to put in place an island defensive chain is NOT analogous to the US concept of 1st/2nd island defence chains. It is a force projection strategy into the space lanes.
Lovely bird. Half way house between a Jaguar and a TSR2.