Some time ago, the West has been preaching that the United States is about to send five aircraft carriers to be deployed in the waters around China, this news is not a trivial matter, you must know that the United States has only 11 aircraft carriers in total, five, which is equivalent to half of the combat strength of the US Navy.
Of course, Ben Hu has also analyzed before, this deployment plan, in fact, is when the United States conducts aircraft carrier scheduling, by the way, to deter China, let several aircraft carriers that are about to be deployed in Europe and the Middle East take a detour, go to China first, and by the way, when the Reagan aircraft carrier is replaced and return to sail, it is good to make a five-aircraft carrier cruise around China, and there is actually not much real threat.
It's just that even if it is an exercise + a temporary pass, this is also a big deterrent for China, at least it can boost the confidence of the United States and the Western world and bring a little good news; After all, before this, the United States had deployed at most three aircraft carrier battle groups at the same time. Such a large-scale naval military operation can be described as unprecedented since the end of the Cold War.
However, it is such a makeshift five-aircraft carrier formation, and the Americans can't even put it together, let alone maintain it.
According to the latest developments of the US aircraft carrier released by the "South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness" platform on the 22nd, there is only one aircraft carrier currently active in the Western Pacific region, the USS Roosevelt, and the two aircraft carriers that were said to come to China by the way are gone. On February 5, the USS Reagan, which was originally scheduled to go to the Pacific Ocean, had returned to its home port in the United States. As for the aircraft carriers in Europe and the Middle East, there is no movement and they remain in place.
In other words, the five aircraft carriers that the Americans boasted particularly hard about coming to China to operate, and when it comes to the actual implementation level, there is only one aircraft carrier left.
Originally, the five aircraft carriers that everyone ** did not last long, and they simply became only one aircraft carrier.
Judging from this incident, we can already see how humiliating the combat readiness rate of the United States is now.
The current strategy of the United States is to ensure that it can defeat China in the Pacific region, so it will not exert too much force in other places, but this has also led other places to think that the Americans should not lose China's big because they are small, so they are crazy to score points and put pressure on the Americans.
So now the Americans are in a dilemma, they want to send five aircraft carriers to give China strength. But as long as they dare to transfer aircraft carriers from Europe and the Middle East, Iran in the Middle East, and Russia in Europe will dare to let the Americans know why the flowers are so red. So now they are completely afraid to mobilize the existing aircraft carrier fleet to the seas near China.
It can even be said that in 2016, if the Americans could win against China, they would have started fighting a long time ago. Otherwise, do you really think that Obama drove the aircraft carrier to China's periphery to play around with China?
Now the Americans are even more afraid to fight with China, and in 2022, the total shipbuilding orders of China, Japan and South Korea will account for 96% of the world8%, of which China alone accounts for 50%, a total of about 40 million tons. And the shipbuilding tonnage of the Americans is only 600,000 tons. This figure guarantees that in the event of war, the Americans will be able to enter a state of no ships available for a short time. It is difficult to maintain the size of the Navy at the current capacity of the United States, and it is a joke to expand production capacity. Mobilizing troops also cannot be mobilized.
So much so that now that we are in a complete dilemma, I hope the Americans will do it for themselves.