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Is China The Next Biggest Super Power
fredster:
I don't think we would, at least not us Directly.
We could hold them off. Apparently you weren't in the Army or any Forces Cooter. Simple war stratagey really.
The way to win would be to go for the land mass itself. Hold it and pull the Navy in to blockade it. With our technology we could do it if we could build the force up big enough quickly enough.
I'm sure we could hold it if the nuclear option wasn't used.
I'm sure we could hold the Continental US too. It's the nuclear thing that makes it Tricky. Hopefully Reagan actually made some of those weather satillites into something really cool.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: GGKoul on March 22, 2005, 08:54:54 pm ---The only problem is, the Chinese ground troops would never make it to US shores.
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Sure they could. They'd put on sombreros and come through the Mexican border. They could be in the US and working for two years before anyone noticed.
We all seem to agree that China can manufacture anything faster and cheaper... but not weapons, I suppose?
fredster:
Chinese SKS's. Go for about $100 here. (what is that, $6000 canadian?)
Grasshopper:
I don't think it's likely that China will invade Taiwan in the near future despite the sabre rattling. Why should they? They're getting stronger whilst the west, at least in relative terms, is getting weaker. They can afford to play the long game and bide their time.
But if they did invade Taiwan then we'd probably end up with a Cuban missile crisis situation i.e. a long period of brinkmanship followed by an uneasy compromise.
There would be a lot of posturing but I don't think either side would risk a direct military confrontation because it would almost certainly escalate and end up with WMDs being used.
The days when major industrialised countries went to war are gone. The stakes are just too high these days.
fredster:
--- Quote ---They're getting stronger whilst the west, at least in relative terms, is getting weaker.
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How so?
--- Quote ---The days when major industrialised countries went to war are gone. The stakes are just too high these days.
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Don't bet on that. Things change. 20 years ago we were facing the USSR down and expecting war. Who would have thought we'd be fighting at this in the Mid East on 9/10/01?
All it would take would be a huge economic meltdown to change things around. Oil could do that. A misplaced Nuke could do that.
Russia isn't what it used to be, but it's still a superpower. England went to war in the '80's over land.