Yeah, FAFO.When twatter shit posters spend all day memeing the Three Gorges Dam, they'll face rapid Chinese nuclear arms expansion. When the U.S. military spends all day discussing blockades and unrestricted submarine warfare, and seize Chinese ships near Venezuela, they'll face armed merchant ships. PLA isn't some passive entity you can keep waving your fists at without consequence.
Americans are openly talking about hitting Chinese civilian ships anyway.
>>524370001Official US strategy paper
>>524369966>arm your merchant navyThis just gives Chinas opponents causus beli to sink any Chinese freighter that approaches their territorial waters.>Merchant ships are civilian vessels. Arming them does not automatically change their status, but they can lose their protection from military attack in a time of war if they engage in belligerent acts or become auxiliaries to an enemy's armed forces.Considering freighters aren't meant to be warships they just become slow moving easy targets for long range missiles and aircraft. They would also take on water uncontrollably and sink at the first good hit because they lack separating internal bulkheads to seal off flooded areas.
>>524370356See>>524370001Americans always planned to attack Chinese civilian shipping from the start
