Comment on South Korea Just Another Vassal State by sonatime

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sonatime · 9/12/2025, 6:27:57 AM · permalink

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''I still don't see a paper Tiger though.''  
  
....it's because Koreans are wise the ways of Chinese; they love to pretend they are someone they are not.     For example, the availability rate of PLAAF fighter jets are only about 10%, USAF/USN/USMC availability rates are about 25%; yes, they are both bad, but still U.S. is way higher than PLAAF.   Europeans are not much better, again, only about 10%.  
  
In contrast, ROKAAF is about 90% for FA-50; they are aiming for at least 80% for KF-21.    Now, why is the availability rates are so important?  
  
The number of fighter jets do not determine the true strength of AF; they are merely potential true effective strength.    Given everything else equal, higher availability rate means higher percentage of the number of the fighter jets would be available in actual mission in real time, on demand, 24/7, 365.    US military has about 3 times the availability rate of Chinese military, this means, given everything else equal, U.S. military has about 3 times more planes available for mission 24/7, 365 than Chinese military, this means Chinese would need 3 times more total planes just to equal the true effective air cover of U.S. military.  
  
Currently, China has about 1,500; U.S. has about 3,400; on average, U.S. fighter jets are far more effective than Chinese jets, U.S. pilots are also far more effective than Chinese pilots, not because of American exceptionalism, but because they have better training equipment, more training time than Chinese.  
  
So, here the true effective strength of Chinese fighter jets are only about 150, while U.S. fighter jet strength is more than 1,000, even given everything else equal.    Now, there are limits how many jets U.S. can send to far east for war with China, USN/USMC, about 1400, about 420 would be available 24/7, China still 150, given everything else equal.  China simply neither has the numbers nor quality, both hardware, and pilots to match U.S. even in their own backyard.    Their hypersonic cruise missiles don't have the range to reach U.S. fleet, provided U.S. fleet stays far away enough from the mainland.   U.S. fleet can defend from the conventional ballistic missiles.  
  
U.S. ballistic missiles can annihilate their ghost cities, causing little human lives, but causing immense financial damage to both the rich, and the middle class, who invested their life savings on ghost cities, with their economic useless buildings.   If they go up in smoke, the rich will get the bailout, the middle class will demand the same, either they get it or don't; if they don't they will lose all incentive to support the government, the poor either don't care already, or will be enraged, when they have to support the rich and middle class, and they get sent to die as cannon fodders; they will revolt.  
  
China is a paper tiger compared to U.S.   U.S. has a serious problem; I know that, U.S. will implode in the next few decades, but China has even bigger problem, and will implode before U.S.   
  
''China has given in..idk what they have given in to Trump? They seem to have escalation dominance over each move he has made.''  
  
They are bluffing; Chinese love to bluff; they love to gamble, even more than the Americans.   They love to pretend.  
  
  
https://insideevs.com/news/717977/china-byd-ev-sales-struggling/  
  
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-passive-income-streams-retirees-160008073.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall  
  
https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/why-are-some-chinese-ev-startups-failing-despite-the-industrys-global-success/  
  
In contrast, I bet Trump is happy to see Tesla limping.  
  
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/02/hyundai-coasts-into-another-ev-sales-record-while-tesla-hits-brick-wall/  
  
https://autopostglobal.com/car-news-industry/article/57938/  
  
Once ROK builds the economy of scale both in U.S. and EU; Chinese are done.  
  
Neither China nor U.S. nor the Europeans/Japanese have anything like this; this will make EV legitimate transportation on its own right, nothing to do with green scam.  
  
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