china lands first jet on it's aircraft carrier

[DonCoquixote]

60. This is fine for invading Taiwan

But the only time China or America will be a real threat to each other is if they can somehow make the Pacific safer to travel, and that will not be done by big, bulky, visible carriers that scream "please shoot missiles at me so I can lose a few billion worth of Jets as I go down."

That work will be done with the only modern boats that mean jack; submarines. The day somebody makes a base from which submarine can be maintained and dispatched, that nation will rule the sea.

Now before people laugh, do consider something:

http://rt.com/usa/news/drug-us-submarines-guard-900/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

Now, keep in mind, this whole sub thing started when the cartels bought Soviet-era subs from the Russian Mafia, but guess where most of the components for these things come from now? Hint: they have Pandas. Currently they are often assembled by FARC, which is either condemned by or loved by Chavez, depending on his mood and needs.

So, homemade subs or the aircraft carrier, which is worse? Aircraft carriers are a lot harder to move across the ocean, whereas now, China effectively has a group of people able to carry out submarine warfare, and they can even operate as "terrorists", with is pretty much the old game of "Privateer" that ruled our waters once.

And let's not even ponder when someone gets the knack for leaving supplies in the water that can be picked up and used. So much shipping occurs between China and America, it is not hard to drop care packages, not to mention what Mexican cartels can do in the Pacific, once they learn subcraft.