China has been practising missile barrages that could disable a lot of tian's facilities, at least ha big inferstructure and air fields. The principle of being a porcupine, of being difficult to attack and digest, bristling with cheaper defensive weapons, i think is probably sound. It means that they can have an element of surprise without being detected in the way that the russians were detected when they were building up their forces against ukraine.
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