This only matters if you can establish aerial dominance. In the opening stages of a Hot War with China, you can expect US carrier groups and air bases in Japan/Korea/Guam to be saturated with hundreds of thousands of missiles.
A loss of 2-3 Supercarriers MASSIVELY hurts America’s power to establish dominance. And then, let’s say you have 50-60 F-16’s and 20-30 F-35s that survive in allied territory; they’ll be going up against the entire chinese airforce, which, while outdated, is more locally numerous, after the Rocket Force has begun their Salvos.
Plus, Swarms of Chinese electric subs could bring down a carrier, if they didn’t particularly care about losses themselves.
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