What, china has 250x the ship building capacity compared to the US at this time? Targeted towards smaller more mobile ships, which are about what you’d need in the future to secure sea routes?
Lets send the germans over there to patrol “our backyard in south asia”, so they’ll learn what the challenges there are, first hand!
I call this:
Have an unsolvable problem again? Plug it with germany!
(Maybe tell them they can do the same they did with russia, pacify them through trade opportunities! No, tell them they can learn how to act tough militarily there! Better argument for the domestic audience!)
The problem still remains unsolveable, but at least now you have side benefits!
Germany wins, and chinese pull back more - Win.
Germany loses, and chinese pull German trade options - Win.
Every time there is a skirmish, this all starts over and the first time China picks option two, the US dependency of germany intensifies.
Also why is Trump an asset in these debates again? (You dont know what he will do! You have to pacify him!) Oh yeah, because European US dependency already increased…
Lets think this two decades further. Chinese have doubled their destroyer fleet. Chinese secure maritime trade routes.
So US blocks the Strait of Hormuz.
Germany happy, because it already knows US geopolitical problems in the south china sea!
Man, those Atlantic Council folks, just cant loose!
China: Deutsche Marineschiffe in Taiwanstraße “falsches Signal”
edit: 232 times the ship building capacity. According to the alliance for american manufacturing.
edit: Great news number two, same speaker - do what Shinzō Abe did and make a wonderfull (be it a little lob sided…) trade deal!
Yeah, we already know, that thats what Merz is for, thanks.. 😉
Context: Japan Regrets Trusting Trump on Trade
Trade negotiations have left Tokyo giving much and getting little. (FP)
src: click
