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Could China Build a “Great Wall” of Anti-Ship Missiles?
China wants to deny others access to the South China Sea while keeping free access to trade and military routes for itself.
Key point: Washington knows that Beijing would love to push it completely out of the Western Pacific. Here is how America could try to prevent that from happening.
Suppose the United States and its allies erect a “Great Wall in reverse,” deploying anti-ship, anti-aircraft, and anti-submarine armaments on and around the islands constituting the first island chain.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will not submit meekly while the allies curb its freedom of movement between its home waters and the Western Pacific. Instead, PLA soldiers, sailors, and aviators will try to puncture, outflank, or otherwise nullify the wall, regaining access to the wider world. They must lest China forfeit the export and import trade that underwrites its “dream” of prosperity and national dignity, not to