Thoughts & Questions:
1. If I’m reading this in the South China Morning Post, I’m going to assume the US armed forces know it as well.
2. That being so, I wonder what the counter is. Better protection? Preventive strikes to take out the hypersonic missile sites? What? What is the US doing to protect its carrier groups against hypersonic missiles? Presumably they aren’t advertising that in the SCMP.
3. How often have war games scenarios got it right? Genuine question; I don’t know.
4. Is this allowed to be published, as a warning to the US? After all, had this been published without specific permission by the Party, by a journalist based in China, it would have been “spying” and you’d be in the slammer.
5. Given the US presumably knows all this, is there any point to a “warning”? Or is it to soften up we the public? To throw into the public square the idea that the US better not, or you get your comeuppance. That that then becomes a theme in the narrative.
