Since strengthening the hull of a ship is not visible to satellite surveillance, and adding derricks probably wouldn't require drydocking the ship, we probably wouldn't know about it until the ship sailed, unless we got lucky and spotted the mod work during those few days. Which is doubtful, as the Chinese have a lot of docks for our satellites to observe (and the humans who have to study the pics). Basically, the Chinese can easily create the required logistics train whenever they get the warships needed to project a blue water threat.
I'd be more concerned about tracking Chinese ASW capabilities than tracking their logistics capabilities. I doubt that the Chicoms have ignored the lessons from WW2 and what the US did to Japan.
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