China's Navy can sail just fine. It's a serious threat. It's biggest problem is that it's not yet a great blue water Navy in structure, nor experience. It's largely designed to operate around coastal China / Taiwan and be able to project power slightly beyond the South China Sea. It's largely a regional Navy at this point.Ah, you seems to think Chinese navy can't sail.
I agree that a full naval blockade of China would be damn near impossible, especially with its land based missile and air force assets able to help significantly, but I do think the Chinese economy could be crippled and the standard of living for the Chinese people would fall off a cliff if they ever got into a hot war with the U.S. and suddenly had the full weight of the U.S. Navy, Japanese Navy, South Korean Navy and Australian Navy working in unison to form a loose blockade (especially of food and fuel imports), backed up by a plethora of air assets from USA
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Full blockade? I highly doubt it. A loose blockade by a coalition of as many as 12-15+ countries? I think that's plausible.
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