08-28-2002, 03:48 PM
China has wanted to for years. If they really want to fuck with us, all they have to do is invade Taiwan. We have treaties with Taiwan and supply and train their military. We would be forced to respond and China would have it's war.
Right now, they won't because they don't have the navy to challenge us. It would end similar to the Falkland Islands war. Britain's subs sunk one Argentine ship and the whole Argentine navy tucked tail and hid in port for the rest of the war. And then the British harriers owned the sky. The Argentine troops were cut off from supplies and were doomed from that point on.
China has nukes and outnumbers us by better than 100 to 1. That's their strength. We could never take China now the way Japan did in WWII.
If we end up in a war with China, it will either be over Taiwan, or China helping North Korea invade South Korea.
Right now, they won't because they don't have the navy to challenge us. It would end similar to the Falkland Islands war. Britain's subs sunk one Argentine ship and the whole Argentine navy tucked tail and hid in port for the rest of the war. And then the British harriers owned the sky. The Argentine troops were cut off from supplies and were doomed from that point on.
China has nukes and outnumbers us by better than 100 to 1. That's their strength. We could never take China now the way Japan did in WWII.
If we end up in a war with China, it will either be over Taiwan, or China helping North Korea invade South Korea.