duhhhh....
oh what's that? we were right again, and liberals were easily duped by US propaganda into becoming disgusting war-mongering hawks baying for blood? no shit.
duhhhh....
oh what's that? we were right again, and liberals were easily duped by US propaganda into becoming disgusting war-mongering hawks baying for blood? no shit.
There's some interesting debate on this topic IMO. Chinese ship building clearly has the capacity to spit out a lot more landing ships and LHDs than it currently is. This points to either a complete lack of a plan to land on Taiwan, or alternative plans that don't involve massive use of military landing vessels. Personally, I find the latter to be more likely, though I'm not sure if this means ferrying troops and supplies across in People's Maritime Militia boats, civilian freighters, or some combination of both.
As for the build up being noticed, I think that used to be true but following the training exercises following Pelosi's visit that may have changed. Now China can respond to American or Taipei provocations with large scale exercises and any build up would be hard to tell apart from an exercise until too late.
you can hide troop movements and build ups with exercises, ask Egypt about that, but you cant hide that more ships are being built
You *can * hide it, but it's going to be more expensive. Submarine construction is often hidden, back in the day whole battleships were built in secrecy (e.g. Yamato).
If anything, it is interesting to think about what is in the plan(s) in some general's filing cabinet at PLA HQ for this sort of thing. Hopefully Taiwan and the rest of East Asia remain peaceful and are less tense in future decades than they are today so it never comes to that.