How would you fight China?

[Billo_Really]

Ain't gonna happen so why waste time on such a question.

It just might happen if we attack Iran!

Attacking Iran will put us in a direct military confrontation with Russia.

And if we fight Russia, we will also get China, because just like NATO, they have a defense treaty.

 

[rightwinger]

Why would we want to fight China? They are a good trading partner

We need to invade Canada....They are much closer and are easier to beat

 

[uscitizen]

We have already lost the "war" with China.
go ahead and deny that on your made in china computer.

 

[JakeStarkey]

How would us 250 million Americans fight the 1 billion ++ China in a war? They can just keep coming with more and more men and more and more money. How would the US stay its foothold against them?

Tell that to the Vietnamese! After we left Vietnam, China invaded! China thought they could send millions over the border in a blitz! After one month over 100K Chinese were dead and the Chinese were running back over the border with their tails btw their legs!

Go read real histories about this and come back and tell us what you learned.

 

[Billo_Really]

Why would we want to fight China? They are a good trading partner

We need to invade Canada....They are much closer and are easier to beat

LA Kings proved that!

 

[Katzndogz]

A war with modern China would be suicidal, yes. Both countries have plenty of nukes. (China also happens to control almost all the world's supply of several minerals our economy now depends on.)

The only reason China controls almost all of the world's supply of rare earths is because we have passed laws preventing mining such rare earths. We really have much more than China.

 

[Flopper]

A draft today is not needed and would be a huge expense. China has about 2.2 million active military personnel with about 800,000 in reserve. The US has 1.4 million on active duty with an additional 1.4 million in reserve. China will always have the potential to raise a far larger military than the US and nothing can be done about that.

Global Firepower - 2013 World Military Strength Ranking

 

[Flopper]

Ain't gonna happen so why waste time on such a question.

It just might happen if we attack Iran!

Attacking Iran will put us in a direct military confrontation with Russia.

And if we fight Russia, we will also get China, because just like NATO, they have a defense treaty.

What you're talking about is WWIII. China has nothing to gain and a lot to loose in any confrontation against the US.

I doubt seriously that US would invade Iran. Much more likely would be surgical strikes limited to nuclear development. China doesn't want a nuclear arsenal in Iran any more than we do and they're certainly not going to start a world war over it. What China wants is Iranian oil.

 

[Unkotare]

We have already lost the "war" with China.
go ahead and deny that on your made in china computer.

What war?

 

[Unkotare]

US can't fight its way out of a wet paper bag. It can only bomb.
Anyway, shouldn't you be thinking of how you are going to feed and house the ever growing number of destitute US citizens?

Oh, were you worried that some people had forgotten what an idiot you are? You really shouldn't be.

You want me to illustrate my point?

With pleasure!!

Were you under the impression that anyone was arguing that there is 0% poverty in The United States?

Are you trying to be even more of an idiot than usual?

 

[Unkotare]

A draft today is not needed and would be a huge expense.

And a huge mistake.

 

[HUGGY]

How would you fight China?


Infest thier forests with wood eating beetles. No more chopsticks. They would starve.

 

[anotherlife]

Very interesting points! Rather than replying individually (shortage of time), let me reply to all of you here.

I don't understand why a war with China would be academic, with nukes or without.

Even Japan and other nuked places showed a far less than total annihilation. Then if we even draft ourselves (I would hate to be drafted), China's headcount advantage would still remain before and after the mutual nuking. The American drafted meat-shield will not be as effective as the historic Soviet one was against the Nazis, because we don't have the headcount and area advantage.

I think, as China is gradually building up its domestic consumer market, in about 10 years China will not depend on the US, and we may well see the world's oil trade switch away from the US dollar, the reason why the US invades every middle-eastern country today and creates revolutions.

Isn't a direct war with China inevitable, after a series of proxy wars such as maybe Korea and Taiwan?

I suspect, that every time when a new power emerges, a world war kicks in, like it was with ww1.

 

[HUGGY]

China is the largest producer of hydroelectricity. Nuke thier Dams. Many would drown...no electricty for decades in most of the country.

 

[HUGGY]

We have already lost the "war" with China.
go ahead and deny that on your made in china computer.

What war?

Speaking militarily. Go **** yourself.

 

[Wonky Pundit]

A war with modern China would be suicidal, yes. Both countries have plenty of nukes. (China also happens to control almost all the world's supply of several minerals our economy now depends on.)

The only reason China controls almost all of the world's supply of rare earths is because we have passed laws preventing mining such rare earths. We really have much more than China.

Wrong. About 93% of what's in the ground is on Chinese land.

 

[Unkotare]

The American drafted meat-shield will not be as effective as the historic Soviet one was against the Nazis, because we don't have the headcount and area advantage.

"Area advantage"?


And, we have a much larger population than that of the Soviet Union during WWII.

 

[Unkotare]

We have already lost the "war" with China.
go ahead and deny that on your made in china computer.

What war?

Speaking militarily. Go **** yourself.

I wasn't talking to you, poseur.

 

[Unkotare]

A war with modern China would be suicidal, yes. Both countries have plenty of nukes. (China also happens to control almost all the world's supply of several minerals our economy now depends on.)

The only reason China controls almost all of the world's supply of rare earths is because we have passed laws preventing mining such rare earths. We really have much more than China.

Wrong. About 93% of what's in the ground is on Chinese land.

Link?

 

[Unkotare]

Isn't a direct war with China inevitable, after a series of proxy wars such as maybe Korea and Taiwan?
.

No.