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2021-12-07 China-Japan-Koreas

China 'could hide cruise missiles inside shipping containers transported by its huge fleet of freighters and use them to carry out surprise attack'

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-07 06:38|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 ...They could - it's a perfectly reasonable tactic.

On the other hand, that either makes those ships either auxiliary warships (and therefore legitimate targets) or privateers, in which case I would refer them to Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law (1856), which outlaws that sort of thing. The US never signed it, but has made repeated statements that it shall abide by its provisions. Either way, every Chinese merchant ship will be a legitimate target.

The Chinese want to get cute? No problems. Even a crippled USN would be able wipe the PRC's merchant fleet from the seas, and without merchant ships anything they thought they were going to get from a war would vanish once their economy collapses.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-12-07 09:39|| 2021-12-07 09:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Very possible.
Or, vessels no longer required.
They may already be here awaiting inspection or in-transit by road and rail to their respective target regions.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-07 12:23|| 2021-12-07 12:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Consider the Chinese Port Operations at the Panama Canal and the warehouse complex that links to the rail and shipping network into Nicaragua and above. After so long, can you imagine what might be positioned anywhere the operate trucking and warehouse systems?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-12-07 12:46|| 2021-12-07 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Not related, but I have to wonder:

With all these container ships stranded off the coast, how many illegal aliens have starved/dehydrated/overheated to death on those ships?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-07 14:47|| 2021-12-07 14:47|| Front Page Top

#5 can you imagine

Yes.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-07 14:48|| 2021-12-07 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 With all these container ships stranded off the coast

Report: Shipping Containers from Stranded Ships Dumped in L.A. Neighborhoods

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-07 15:25|| 2021-12-07 15:25|| Front Page Top

#7 3,000 Shipping Containers Fell Into the Pacific Ocean Last Winter

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-07 15:26|| 2021-12-07 15:26|| Front Page Top

#8 I imagine putting a bomb on a ship and treating it like a huge carbomb would be better than setting it up to fire cruise missiles.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-12-07 18:03|| 2021-12-07 18:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Tip em sideways and you've solved LA's homeless problem

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-07 18:08|| 2021-12-07 18:08|| Front Page Top

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