‘Sink two aircraft carriers’: Chinese Admiral’s chilling recipe to dominate the South China Sea

On the one hand, the idea that an Asian power would cause the US to let them do whatever they want if they only took out some US Navy ships up front has been tried before. On the other hand:

In his speech, he said there were ‘five cornerstones of the United States’ open to exploitation: their military, their money, their talent, their voting system — and their fear of adversaries.

He’s not exactly wrong. Still… I *suspect8 that if China decides to take out a few US supercarriers, they’ll quickly find themselves in one hell of a war. I suspect it could easily go nuclear.