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by yogibear678142 84 days ago
People thought the same on Iran, untouchable. China has the same air defense and tech as Iran, not effective in real world situations.

Blockades go both ways. China is energy dependant so very vulnerable to blockade response by the US and Japan. A few choke points make it easy, the ocean is not open ended.
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dragonelite 84 days ago
Well to this day China is getting Iranian energy. This naval blockade is a relic of a past long gone. When you have eyes in the sky and pin point accurate missiles. The US can't even block or free the straight of Hormuz.

Also China is friendly with Russia they have land border so they can build pipelines.

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yogibear678142 83 days ago
Well first, the US is not restricting oil through hormuz, even Iranian oil.

Second, the oil market would disagree that blockading a choke point is not effective. The threat of Iranian missiles has reduced the volume of oil on the market. It's a measurable reduction.

And no China does not have pin point accurate missiles. The missed hits on Diego base with Chinese missiles demonstrate that. The nice thing about Iran is they use Chinese tech, and Chinese contractors. It's a good trial run to asses Chinese offensive and defensive abilities. So far they have proven ineffective against western militaries.

Even Chinese deep bunker defense is proving ineffective. Iranian officials are now taking their chances sleeping in tents as the deep bunkers are death traps.

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maxglute 83 days ago
Iran doesn't use PRC super sonic missiles or Chinese bunkers.

PRC is so far only power to have demonstrated high end missiles, coordinated to hit moving targets at sea 5000km away. Not only pin point but pin point on moving targets, and synchronized arrival from different launch sites thousands of km apart.

Iran has ever managed to hit stationary barges across horizon.

BTW draw 5000km radius around PRC, that covers every SLOC from malacca to gulf, aka PRC has range to do what Iran does to gulf but with coverage of all her shipping lanes, and being least dependant on energy (only 20% of energy mix is import) and hence has asymmetric hemispheric escalation dominance.

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eunos 84 days ago
> China has the same air defense and tech as Iran

Lmao, quantitatively and qualitatively China is more than an order of magnitude bigger

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