A US Navy Super Hornet and Sea Hawk from the same aircraft carrier crashed 30 minutes apart in the South China Sea
hmm, this has happened enough times that you cannot convince me that China doesn’t already has the ability to render all aircraft that flies in the South China Sea as literal sitting ducks and that China is already capable of taking back Taiwan already. Seems the only thing stopping China from doing so is merely the timing and just wanting the timing to perhaps coincide this fight with the complete collapse of the US economy (+ death of dollar) to ensure no distractions to ending this Taiwan question for good while the USA cannot do anything about it. Seriously a nuclear sub hitting an under water mountain cannot be a coincidence as ever since that time, no submarine that we now of has risked going there ever since and the amount of air accidents in the area seem to become increasingly common.
Either the USA is extremely thick skinned or they are furiously putting their hands over their eyes to stop seeing the fact that China as a military force should be something they should treat with fear and respect instead of this cavalier attitude that they are still immune to getting hurt and that China has never developed beyond the Vietnam war