Another Beijing official has sounded off about the communist nation\u2019s perceived dominance of the South China Sea region, this time coming as an alarming threat of inflicting mass casualties on the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Dec. 20 speech to the 2018 Military Industry List summit, China\u2019s Rear Adm. Luo Yuan, the deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, added fuel to the South China Sea fire when he stated the key for Chinese domination in those hotly contested waters could lie in the sinking of two U.S. aircraft carriers, according to a report by Australia\u2019s news.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “What the United States fears the most is taking casualties,\u201d the admiral said, before adding that such an attack on two of the U.S. Navy\u2019s steel behemoths would claim upwards of 10,000 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luo went on to call America\u2019s military, money, talent, voting system and fear of adversaries the five U.S. weaknesses that can be easily exploited, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We\u2019ll see how frightened America is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China\u2019s ongoing insistence on expanding its territory into the Spratly archipelago <\/a>has agitated neighboring nations and continuously challenged international law, an assertiveness the U.S. attempts to check through routine freedom of navigation operations, or FONOPs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t