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China's submersible fleet is probably going to be at the bottom of the ocean within an hour of shooting wars. They do not have a deep ocean Navy.

And which Chinese allies are you referring to, and you really think that they are going to host Chinese attacks on the US Navy?

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There's been a lot of noise about China increasing their influence in the pacific, but now that I follow it up it's more limited than I thought.

China has approximately 250 times the shipbuilding capacity of the US. This infrastructure is integrated with military production. US-allied shipbuilding capacity in Japan and South Korea is within striking range of mainland China. I do not think it is reasonable to think that the US can win a sustained naval war against China, and how else would the US defend Taiwan?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/china-dominates-shipbuilding-i...