The balance of naval power in Asia is shifting, with China building more submarines and other naval vessels while Japan's fleet is stagnant. But Tokyo has optimized its entire fleet—subs, ships and planes—for anti-submarine warfare.
the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, the Chinese navy in 2015 operated 57 diesel-electric submarines and five nuclear attack submarines. Beijing’s undersea fleet by 2030 could expand to include 60 diesel-electric boats and at least 16 nuclear attack submarines.plan grow this force over the near term. Japanese subs are among the most modern and sophisticated in the world, but they indisputably are outnumbered by their Chinese counterparts.
Finally, Tokyo and its allies would undertake what Hua called “encirclement and annihilation combat” on the high seas, hunting down and destroying Chinese submarines that slip past the Okinawa blockade zone.
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