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US warplane approaches Shanghai as tensions remain high amid consulate closures

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Just logged in to say that a war has little to no potential strategic benefit to US and its allies.

It has several, yes, lots of downsides. Nothing like WWW3 (that's so XXs), but China will probably take the chance to hit hard, taking a long time toll from the US infrastructure, if not in US mainland (highly unlikely if they don't want to have theirs bombed), probably overseas.

They'll clear their way in, into several markets / territories, currently out of reach because US fully control them (South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, but some African countries could easily be added to the list).

War is not really a good idea for US.

War is never a good idea for anyone. China doesn’t have the resources to do great in a conventional war either, out carrier fleet outnumbers theirs about 10-1, and we have far more overseas military assets near their borders than they have near ours.

Um, how many crises do we want at once?

US gov is seriously plotting military actions to China. I don't think this is reasonable or useful.

These are unarmed reconnaissance planes. This has been going on for 70 years, Russia and China do similar things.

Seriously?!

Flying warplanes near another country's border... US is so much more aggressive than I knew...

“Warplanes” is an alarmist term for a plane armed with nothing more than cameras.

I might be wrong. I'm not aware of the Chinese military flying in the gulf of Mexico however.

How would they get access to the Gulf of Mexico? Most of their surveillance flights are near Japan, India, Siberia and Alaska.

https://thediplomat.com/tag/y-9jb-surveillance-aircraft/

Wouldn't surprise me at all if trump tries to start a war with China as the US gets closer to election.

Starting a war seems like a 'good' strategy to build more support for him, because a president during a war always has more support (at least if it doesn't go disastrously wrong, like the Vietnam war, and that would take longer to become apparent than from now till the election). I sincerely hope that it isn't allowed by his multiple 'acting leaders' who wouldn't pass the easy barrier of senate confirmation.

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