TheAltWorld US Has Spent Years Preparing for “Distant Blockade” on Chinese Maritime Shipping
When people hear things like this from 2018 claiming a maritime blockade on China would be “strategically flawed,” they falsely assume these bad ideas are abandoned.
They are not.
This 2018 report lays out the obstacles in 2018 against placing a maritime “distant blockade” on China.
A “distant blockade” = using US global-spanning military power to block shipping beyond the range of China’s military forces in China.
Since 2018, under both Trump/Biden, the US has addressed each obstacle – decoupling from China, building a military better able to impose a blockade, & backing proxies targeting alternative land-routes.
In some cases, like targeting the Myanmar-China pipeline that allows China to circumvent the Malacca Strait, the US has since backed militant groups who have actually attacked it.
Read the 2018 report here:
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review
https://t.me/brianlovethailand/4303
It is also important to point out incremental moves to try and interdict Russian energy shipments is a beta test for a large and more disruptive blockade on China – how the multipolar world reacts to one will inform how the US attempts to impose the other.
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