Chop Suey Commandos
My proposal that a non-American alliance of all the Asian states threatened by China also suffers from an imbalance in wealth and population. But Japan alone before Pearl Harbor proved that is meaningless.
The Chinese manufacture shoddy products; their fall-apart junk tells us what kind of military they have. Its last big demonstration was its pathetic performance in the Korean War: 400,000 dead, while the United States lost only 36,000. There was no patriotic reason to surrender North Korea to their allies. Nuking them would have killed fewer Chinese than they had lost by their suicide charges, but it would have ended the war and freed North Korea.