China has mainly created the anti-aircraft carrier missiles to prevent the U.S. from intervening on Taiwan’s behalf in case the PRC decides to invade Taiwan. Effective “blackmail” would allow China to defeat Taiwan in a one-on-one fight withoubUS intervention, thus allowing for Chinese “reunification”

China doesn’t necessarily need to equal or surpass the number of expensive aircraft carriers the U.S. has, so much as to “neutralize” the threat of U.S. intervention were the PRC to launch a campaign to “retake” Taiwan and finally breach out of the First Island Chain (Stretching from Japan’s Ryukyus Islands, Taiwan,…