Originally Posted by
racedo
I love your optimism, in reality they can just ignore, unless RN is part of a USN deployment then it really has zero impact.
The "we have a big aircraft carrier" has zero impact when people you are challenging make you aware that in the event of any conflict it will be "we had a big aircraft carrier",
The Prince of Wales and The Repulse on 7th of December 1941 supposedly were a big show of RN power in Asia, couple of days later both were on the bottom of the sea.
USN sends a lone destroyer near one of “their islands” and the Chinese military along with their diplomatic corps go ape ****. U.K. sends a carrier battle group and the Chinese don’t even take notice, nah, don’t buy it.. Any one in the leadership in the Chinese military who didn’t take the threat of a CBG sailing nearby should be relieved of their authority.