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.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/europ...mil/index.html
Seems the Chinese are more interested in the RN CBG than you believe.
Sorry MODs, know you don’t like links, however it wouldn’t have been believed if I hadn’t added it. I’ll say 12 Hail Marys.