China Threatens to Sink US Carriers
‘We’ll see how frightened America is’ — Chinese admiral says sinking US carriers key to dominating South China Sea
Another Beijing official has sounded off about the communist nation’s perceived dominance of the South China Sea region, this time coming as an alarming threat of inflicting mass casualties on the U.S. Navy.
During a Dec. 20 speech to the 2018 Military Industry List summit, China’s Rear Adm. Lou Yuan, the deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, added fuel to the South China Sea fire when he stated the key for Chinese domination in those hotly contested waters could lie in the sinking of two U.S. aircraft carriers, according to a report by Australia’s news.com.
"What the United States fears the most is taking casualties,” the admiral said, before adding that such an attack on two of the U.S. Navy’s steel behemoths would claim upwards of 10,000 lives.
Lou went on to call America’s military, money, talent, voting system and fear of adversaries the five U.S. weaknesses that can be easily exploited, according to the report.
"We’ll see how frightened America is,” he said.
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I think that was Justice Department all the way. I also think they've had their sights on Huawei for some time. Rumours I got is that they were up to some pretty nefarious stuff, and not just in the U.S.
Truth be told, as a former carrier sailor 
, I'm a lot more scared of having China as an opponent than Russia. But on the bright side, at least their government isn't a merely a ham-fisted group of gangsters like Russia and have more sense than doing anything like the admiral threatened.
