Regardless of what reason is being given for those "summer exercises", they seem guaranteed to stir up trouble.
Needless to say, the Chinese are not amused. They say that their naval and air forces, plus their land-based rockets, are capable of taking on one or two carrier strike groups but that combat with seven would overwhelm them. So even before a carrier reaches the Taiwan Strait, Beijing has announced it will embark on a crash project that will enable it to meet and defeat seven U.S. carrier strike groups within a decade. There's every chance the Chinese will succeed if they are not overtaken by war first.
Information Clearinghouse article
Why not just carry through with WWIII now? Why waste a perfectly good start?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Besides, China is outstripping us in terms of population increases, and therefore demand for oil, and oil producing countries are starting to get a little too cozy with China, so it's probably a good idea if we preempt their ability to dampen the oil flow in our direction right now. Nip that in the bud.
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