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In response to
"This is a bigger question than "who would win in a fight?". It's also "which countries approach America in terms of soft power and hard power?""
by
Roger More
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Right now...
Posted by
Mel Profit (aka Mel Profit)
Mar 29 '12, 07:44
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we'd win a stand up fight. It might be a brawl...could we lose a carrier? Perhaps. Imagine a $5-7 Billion USN capital ship going down. Right now, we'd win that fight however. But man...I don't want to see what would happen in 10 years.
Right now they've got a retro-fitted Russian carrier which in and of itself is a small threat. It's like the carriers that Britain and France have. But it's not suppose to challenge a Nimitz or Ford class carrier...What it will do is give the Chinese navy time to train people to operate carriers. That's the real danger...that they'll figure out how modern carrier ops work.
As for the countries in Asia looking to either China or the US for political guidance I'm cynical. A lot of those countries are more comfortable with autocratic systems of government than democracies. As we've seen over the last 10 years...some countries and regions view democratic systems as foreign and weak.
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