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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
There is one extremely serious item still missing from the VARYAG - engines. The Chinese don't know how to build boiler plants necessary to sustain a carrier in flight operations. They've tried to buy two from Georgia but the deal fell through.
The only other option, which the Chinese are more than capable, is a nuclear power plant but we have not seen anything glowing green from space.
We actually don't know what the Chinese are doing concerning the powerplant issue but we have absolutely no evidence that they've solved it.
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Sir, in your opinion, how long would you estimate that it will take for the PLA to be broadly capable of posing a serious challenge to the US Military in East Asia? I roughly guess at least 20 years given the top-down shortcomings that I've read about here, would that be a reasonable "guesstimate"?