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What if China ran their war ships into Mexico gulf just like U.S did in Southern China Sea?We shall think it is quiet fair because in the "public" ocean?
by zaczac 11y ago
What if China ran their war ships into Mexico gulf just like U.S did in Southern China Sea?We shall think it is quiet fair because in the "public" ocean?
- adventured 11y agoThat's exactly what would happen: the US would not freak out about it. Russia was just busy flying bombers 40 miles off the coast of California last week. Last time I checked, we haven't declared war on Russia for it. They regularly do the same thing with their navy in various ways, whether off the Atlantic or Pacific coast, or near Cuba / Florida waters.
- cygwin98 11y agoCuban missile crisis in 1962?
- run4yourlives2 11y agoThere's a pretty big difference in China sending a couple of warships to the gulf and USSR setting up a nuclear missile base with missiles pointed at the US on Cuba.
- cygwin98 11y agoNuclear missles or "90000 tons of diplomacy" are both certain kinds of deterrence, nothing more, nothing less. If US does not have those carrier combat groups, China wouldn't care either.
- run4yourlives2 11y agoInstant destruction that you can't defend against is not the same as an annoying ship floating around off your coast. The proper comparison to cuba is Star Wars type missile shields. And USSR/Russia has long been quite opposed to that, for good reason.
- ethbro 11y agoI'm going to sound like an apologist, but the Cold War nuclear miltary-political calculus was very different pre-ICMB+MAD on both sides of the Soviet-US split. SLBMs were just being developed in the early 60s, and so Cuban-based missiles represented a novel, more credible first-strike threat given distance (~20 minutes flight time).
- khuey 11y agohttp://thediplomat.com/2014/07/china-is-spying-on-rimpac/ http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/china-is-spying-on-rimpac/ "“It has not entered the territorial seas of the U.S. and it is in accordance with international law regarding freedom of navigation,” Capt. James said in a statement released to the Wall Street Journal. He explained that the ship was in Hawaii’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The U.S. maintains that freedom of navigation for all international ships extend to countries’ EEZs, and it has long maintained ships inside China’s EEZ." Thanks for playing.
- dang 11y ago> Thanks for playing. Please don't do this here.
- greenNote 11y agoRussia and Venezuela had a joint military exercise in the Caribbean sea last year, it made the news, but not much else.