captonjohn
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See what chinese people thinks, a snap of discussion in sinodefenseforum. Here is snap.
People criticize China's maritime drills all the (friggin) time!
Whenever they hold exercises the media says somethign along the lines of "Oh China's stirring up trouble again," and some high ranking US official or commander expresses sadness/wariness.
The difference is that china's obviously holding drills because they're preparing to invade anyone within a five thousand kilometer radius and whenever other nations do it, it's to secure the peace or deter "belligerent" (or some other word synonymous to that) states, or retain the "balance of power".
Meanwhile other countries constantly hold their exercises which are too many for me to count... you know, ones like RIMPAC, Cobra Gold or whatever it's called, etc etc. And these barely get any mention at all...
And if the PLA felt it needed to "intefere" with these exercises I'm sure they could do a fly past with one of their few maritime patrol craft or send a flight of flankers or J-10s on patrol. Or maybe dispatch a submarine to surface within torpedo distance of a USN supercarrier :O
I personally feel that the PLAN may've sent a submarine to at least observe these exercises this time. Too good an opportunity to miss.
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