I'm Australian and aware that China buys from our state alone (Western Australia) 16x more iron ore per annum than the US has ever managed to produce in a year .. this figure alone undercuts many arguments about China's perceived industrial capacity.
They are easily capable (for example) of producing 14x more shit steel than the max US steel capacity .. while at the same time producing 2x the max US quality steel capacity.
Any China-US naval engagement could very well see a new strategic inflection in any case.
Theres's been ironclad supremacy, an age of battleships, and a time of carriers as king.
China has put up (and taken down) several videos of highly coordinated unmanned drone swarms, in the air, on water, under water.
Very large swarms of drones that are nothing but sensors, engines and explosives that can react and maneuver are very asymmetric in cost.
I'm Australian and aware that China buys from our state alone (Western Australia) 16x more iron ore per annum than the US has ever managed to produce in a year .. this figure alone undercuts many arguments about China's perceived industrial capacity.
They are easily capable (for example) of producing 14x more shit steel than the max US steel capacity .. while at the same time producing 2x the max US quality steel capacity.
Any China-US naval engagement could very well see a new strategic inflection in any case.
Theres's been ironclad supremacy, an age of battleships, and a time of carriers as king.
China has put up (and taken down) several videos of highly coordinated unmanned drone swarms, in the air, on water, under water.
Very large swarms of drones that are nothing but sensors, engines and explosives that can react and maneuver are very asymmetric in cost.