According to China Taiwan website cited a report published by the South China Morning Post on June 28, an article recently published by the U.S. Naval Institute has aroused heated discussion because the content of this article is not only related to the military against China. Strategy, and more importantly, the author of the article, a U.S. Navy commander named Victor Duno, suggested that the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command deploy new mines with homing capabilities in China's Yellow Sea and Pearl River Delta. .
It is reported that Duno first hyped up the "China threat theory" according to the process in the article, and then suggested that the US military should increase investment in new types of mines, and then use unmanned underwater vehicles to deploy mines in the Yellow Sea and the Pearl River Delta , identify passing ships, lock the target and directly launch homing torpedoes to sink the target ship. Duno believes that the emergence and deployment of new types of mines will bring three favorable situations to the United States. The first is to force China to return to the negotiating table on terms acceptable to the United States and deal with the differences and contradictions between China and the United States. Secondly, by destroying China’s energy and trade lines, it will strengthen its ability to compete with China for maritime control and gain time for the Indo-Pacific Command to seize dominance in the Indo-Pacific.
Finally, this tactic is used to prevent the People's Liberation Army from possible withdrawal of power by force in the future. It is worth mentioning that this whimsical article on military strategy against China was finally appreciated by the American Mine Warfare Association and successfully won the first prize in the essay competition sponsored by the association.
I have to say that the content mentioned in this article can indeed have a very serious impact on China's maritime activities in theory. After all, mine blockade can not only target civilian ships, but also threaten the normal activities of our navy. , compared with mine laying, demining work not only takes a certain amount of time, but is also accompanied by dangers. Once there are residual mines that have not been cleared, they will inevitably become the primary threat affecting my country's offshore and even inland water activities. But the problem is that since the day New China was founded, it has never been intimidated by American military threats, let alone succumbed to American military hegemony.
The "fantastic ideas" shown in this article are completely based on the premise that "the United States is domineering and China will immediately admit defeat". The reality is that the Chinese army had already fought on the Korean battlefield in 1950. to clearly inform Americans and the entire Western world that the Chinese people are not to be messed with.
Deployment of mines in the Yellow Sea and even the Pearl River Delta has gone far beyond the scope of military operations and directly targeted civilian ships. Especially in the Pearl River Delta region, which also includes inland rivers, there is no room for naval activities. , if the US military dares to deploy mines in the above-mentioned areas, it will not only seriously violate the current international law, but also directly cross the red line of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It can even be said that this behavior itself is a declaration of war on China. And this so-called "naval commander" is still imagining that China will return to the negotiating table and accept a series of unequal conditions imposed by the United States. It can only be said that too many people in the United States are still living in the Cold War period and fantasize about it. The U.S. military is invincible and can defeat everything if it takes action.
However, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has long since transformed into a highly modern and powerful army. Any act that dares to undermine China's prosperity and stability, undermine the lives and property of China's 1.4 billion people, and undermine China's core interests will surely be met with a thunderous counterattack by the People's Liberation Army. The United States needs to accept an objective fact. For the Chinese military, in today's world, "the enemy can go as well as I can." With China's current military production capacity far exceeding that of the United States, and its military scientific research and technology that is almost the same as the United States or even partially leading, the United States You also have the opportunity to "experience" the feeling of having your own port and coastline blocked by countless "new types of mines".
