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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by AsyncAwait on Friday August 07, 2020 @02:56PM (#24085276)
> China's navy CANNOT project power into the strait of Hormuz to secure their oil supply. Any one of the regional middle eastern powers could cut off their supply if they wanted to.

Iran would probably have a thing or two to say about that. And I don't think any of the Arab powers are internally stable or capable enough to take on Iran, yet alone China.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by ikerdanzel on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:37AM (#24090326)
Iraq did.

Take on would most likely a persistent guerilla warfare. It is cheaper than diect confrontation, and possible denial of plausibility. Without a strong power projection, distant gueriella warfare with minimal combatants can wreck havoc as what USSR and USA found out many decades ago in Agfhan and Vietnam.

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