I believe China has time due to recent western actions and strengthening of BRICKs, which iindia is also part of, making them more of economical partner to china rather than competititon. And Mexican manufacturing is a meme made up by americans trying to find another sweatshop heaven now that china became independent.
>Be china
>"Friends" with India
>Claim an entire Indian state as your territory and fight a constant border dispute
>The absolute state of Chinese Diplomacy.
Truly a wolf warrior of all time.
Underestimating China is a perennial problem in the west. Nobody improves without making mistakes, pointing and laughing at these mistakes is incredibly shortsighted. People have been predicting China's collapse for over twenty years. Their housing market was expected to collapse as early as 2006 with the "Ghost Cities" thing.
Nothing collapsed. The cities filled up over time.
The pieces of Chinese kit that made it over to the west (their helmet comes to mind) were on par with western kit. China is authoritarian, and yes, authoritarian regimes do tend to be hit somewhat harder by corruption (I emphasize the somewhat), but China is also a manufacturer.
Steel wins wars, and China has a lot of steel.
Yeah, a helmet isn't the same as a fighter aircraft or an aircraft carrier, but give it time. Nobody's first attempt is ever great.
But after more than twenty years of people predicting China to collapse any day now, maybe it's time to get a clue.
The whole "china will fall" is a meme, but that doesn't necessarily mean the alternative is true, that "China is might!". There are reasons why propaganda cartoons such as the "Year Hare Affair" portrays America as incredibly powerful.
I kinda want China to invade Taiwan just to see their reaction when the Three Gorges Dam mysteriously gets blown up.
Dams are actually really hard to blow up. They're not a weak point, they're a hardened target by virtue of having to be hard. Bluntly, Taiwan doesn't have anything that could meaningfully damage it. Anything short of a GBU 57 won't even penetrate the top (and whether a GBU 57 can depends on the details of the dam's internals that I'm not familiar with). The bottom is impenetrable for... any conventional explosive weapon in existence.
I imagine China would be far more concerned with Taiwan blockading basically the entire coastline by virtue of its location alone.
Blowing up the three gorges dam is a meme.
Yep, and also adding to this, it would simply be easier to just nuke them. Which sounds calloused, but the destruction of the Three Gorges Dam would be fairly equivalent to a nuke, if we are being honest, so an attack like that going off would similarly trigger M.A.D in the same sense that nuking would.
The Dam has fallen, millions must drown.
Well If we are going to be off topic today, You say that China has a lot of steel so does the U.S. but the difference is that the U.S. has been fighting foreign wars for over 100 years with them being mostly unscathe, sans Political scars. China has never won a war against a foreign power, WW2? They hold out until the U.S. dropped two atom bombs on Japan and the Soviet Union invaded Manchura, in which the Soviet Union gave it to them, Korea? stalemate, Their skirmish with the Soviet Union? Status quo with no border changes, Vietnam? Got their asses handed to them and as a bonus Vietnam became closer to the U.S. as a result. The U.S. has been learning what to do when an Ally is at war, They either funnel enough supplies and weapons to their ally till the the opponents logistical situation became so bad that it will eat themselves on the inside, Or if they did get involve militarily they will destroy any Logistical hubs and Military positions and holdout till they surrender. The U.S. might not be good at fighting Guerrillas at the Middle East but fighting large scale armies? They are an ace with that look at Iraq in the 1990s for example.
U.S. has been more than fine at fighting conflicts. The first Gulf war was a bigger stomp than what was already expected to occur, and the 2nd Gulf war wasn't exactly a problem either. Typically America's invasions "failed" in the sense of what happened afterwards, like in Iraq, where the failure of the Iraq invasion was not the military/invading part, i.e. the failure was what happened afterwards, not
during.
looking at the reasons why china lost its wars should make you reconsider your stance of the war worthiness of the United States now. Widespread corruption, drugs, overestimation of their own might, uncontrolled population including minority groups and technological disadvantages have led china to long years of humiliation and subjugation. You got tranny Yamanbas passing fent laced weed to the majors, while bradleys get stuck in shrubbery and leopards stop working cause of fog as the news tell about your superiority over everyone else.
Many of these same things have effectively existed in America for most of it's history, including basically the timeframe America was effectively a superpower. The whole 'Paper tiger' charade is honestly just a meme.
Trusting a westerner lmao, also even if those estimates are right, 40% of reported chinas economy is still pretty big, and enough to remain a strong regional power in asia. And shitty army would also be more of a reason not to confront neighbors, so you know, its better for china to just wait around and clean the house than jumping a shark and putting themselves in a costly war with an island notorious for how shitty waters around it are
America's strongest part of their military, is probably the navy. A defensive conflict around Taiwan is generally favorable for America, as things stand currently.
Things considered Aircraft carriers in other countries, aren't generally considered Aircraft carriers in America.
Take the Italian aircraft carrier, Cavour, for example, that is actually not only smaller than the smallest American aircraft carrier, that is actually also smaller than what the US navy considers a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, which does not qualify as an American aircraft carrier, yet they still literally carry aircraft.
Some fun facts:
The largest air force in the world: United States Airforce.
2nd largest air force in the world: US Navy's Airforce.
