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Potential US blockade of China suggested by Japanese monthly
The Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, on its way to the South China Sea, Nov. 28, 2013. (Photo/CNS)
The United States' offshore control strategy against the People's Liberation Army Navy which aims at enabling a blockade of Chinese harbors in any potential conflict has been revealed by Chuokoron, a Tokyo-based monthly published by Yomiuri Shimbun last month.
The article said that Beijing's establishment of an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea had demonstrated China's ambition to challenge the position of the United States in the Western Pacific. To maintain its influence in the region, an offshore control strategy was delineated by Colonel TX Hammes of the US Marine Corps in 2012 to confront the rising Chinese power, Chuokoron said.
Realizing that China is looking to conduct an anti-access strategy in the Second Island Chain from Japan's Ogasawara Islands to Guam and an area denial strategy in the First Island Chain extending from Alaska to the Philippines, Hammes said that it is necessary to deploy attack submarines and aircraft to blockade major Chinese harbors and naval bases. In addition, Hammes suggested that the US attack Chinese sea lines of communication to reduce the PLA's power projection capability.
If the United States is capable of controlling the Strait of Malacca, the Lombok Strait, the Sunda Strait and the waterways of Australia, China will no longer be able to import the necessary resources it needs to fight a drawn-out war against the United States, Hammes said, suggesting that should tensions escalate, the US should attack all merchant ships and tankers in the waters China claims as its exclusive economic zone. Hammes does not, however, support the idea of attacking the Chinese mainland.
The article also said that no aircraft carrier or other larger type of surface combat vessels should be used for the offshore control strategy. Hammes said that such action would force China to deploy its nuclear arsenal against the United States, which suggests the offshore control strategy would be more like an economic blockade against China. Hammes said that a full-scale war between two nations should be avoided.
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