Well mate, now that you have mentioned two aspects
1. Road alone is not the barometer
2. Air advantage pls allow me to explain to you the chinese capability both on rd and in air.
my post at no point of time will be directing towards own capability as it is good if it remains under wraps.
Tibet road network: three vertical and two horizontal rd network, With Lhasa as centre, Shigatse, Shanan, Nyingchi & Naqqu as Radius, 8000km of rds built upto 2018.
Railways network in Tibet;
•Lhasa – Shigatse (253 KM) Ext of QTR
•Shigatse – Gyirong (540 Km) Planned
•Lhasa – Chengdu (1629 Km) Planned
•Add 1300 km in 13th Five Yr
Aviation
•Six Civ Airport
•Eight Airlines
•Connect 40 cities
•63 Air Routes
Now lets talk about the Highways and their capability to induct tps and lgs support which is THE most imp thing in HIGH ALTITUDE AREAS
1. CENTRAL HIGHWAY also known as G-109
Dist. – 2127 Km
Max dist – 350 km
Rd Cap – 1120
Prac Rd Cap (80%) – 896
No of Days – 06
Induction – 10 Div
2. EASTERN HIGHWAY also known as G-317
Dist. – 2043 Km
Max dist – 200 km
Prac Rd Cap (80%) – 512
No of Days – 11
Induction – 7 Div
The idea of explaining to you the above data is to tell u that the road network has given them a WHOPPING LOGISTIC CAPABILITY OF 29040 TONNS.
Now pls read how much can a single road axis
Your post is multiplied.
Your data doesn't change my original point. All these roads are through very rough terrain .
The roads that connect mainland China to Tibet ( from which most of military supplies will come) are very very long stretches of road built over frozen rivers and mountain passes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_219
Look at this map. G219 connects tibet to xinxiang ( not mailland china) and the other road connecting to china is Lhasa to golmund. Cutting off these two roads cuts off Tibet from mainland China no matter how much roads remain in Tibet itself. Chinese are aware of this weaknesses hence they try to downplay aerial deployment in Tibet.
And we can do that because we hold aerial superiority. Chinese plane can't take off in Tibet with optimum load.
Why do you think Chinese fighters routinely ingress borders with japan , Taiwan and Korea but never do the same on Indian border?
In any case the context of discussion was putting pressure on china. To that point our pressure on Tibet will force china to transfer primary air assets from east front to west front which will make Chinese Easter front very week and could embolden Taiwan to declare independence and USA and Japan to further strengthen their hold in East China and South China sea.
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