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> Electronic warfare is their go to choice in this scenario. What follows is not some fantasy I've invented; China has written about this exact response extensively.

I'd like to see a little more substance if you're directly refuting this statement from TFA and calling it stupid. You may be right, but TFA demonstrates research on this exact topic and your comment does not.

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If a PRC piece suggest PLAN could just EW their way to parking nukes on Cuba for Cuban missile crisis round 2, the obvious follow up is... that's stupid, and obviously won't work because US has other responses in CONUS ontop of just EW to stop PRC efforts. Like the only way one can conjure up TFA scenario where EW makes/breaks a TW blockade, as oppose to being one component in layers of capabilities, some of which are much more effective (incase of mining, overwhelmingly so), is if thinking behind article is stupid, or charitably ignorant, or deliberately ignorant, to push XYZ narrative, in this case fund EW, which is important. Suggesting USN with superior EW can just... waltze through PRC blockade is insinuating PLA is so shortsighted that they won't use their massive mining capbility as contingency, or op is shortsighted on actual PLA TW scenarios, or again charitably, deliberately ignorant to sell EW.

> Suggesting USN with superior EW can just... waltze through PRC blockade

But TFA explicitly says that's not what it's suggesting...?

TFA explicitly use PLA EW blinding/jamming USN fleet to deter blockade running, so important to pay more attention to EW. TFA also acknowledges not expert on strategy/tactics, so it can be overlooked to author chose to focus on one scenario where PRC media has talked about EW. But also important to highlight more resilient USN EW in this scenario is not really make or break, hence scenario stupid for selling better EW, since there's so many other layers of deterence and outright denial that makes US ability to break blockade more or less impossible. A not stupid scenario would be PRC claims of frequent EW showdowns with USN in SCS this year, i.e. allegedly linked to USN dismissing an EA-18G Growler (EW variant of F18) commander on USS Carl Vinson for loss of confidence.

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