Oh ****, my post messed up.
In all honesty, China is a COMMUNIST country. It would've been no different than if the USSR invaded, the most powerful countries on the world (save one) invade the one we exempted from just before.
Even Russia would probably get in on the war because they hate China more than anyone else! (Maoist Communism and Stalinist Communism did not mix.
because mao wasn't only communism. and stalin was 100% communism.
anyway both of them are for a while already and things have changed
Just saying, neither Mao nor Stalin achieved Communism, i.e Marxism, instead twisting it to suit their needs.
Also, China pretty much isn't Communist. Why? They run a capitalist economy, with huge government intervention, but nonetheless still Capitalist. Also, a Communist country aims at the establishment of a classless and stateless communist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production.
Tell me, is China classless? Stateless? No.
china maybe an economic powerhouse, but it has its limitaions, it refuses to fight taliban and other terrorists in afghanistan, saying it doesn't want any new hassles and added burden on state treasury, and they will attack US? hardy likely, they will just become bullies, who will talk loud.
Just because the Taliban is not their fight and they refuse to send in troops does not mean they're bullies or wimps. Let us make it clear that China itself is battling their own local Islamic terrorist movement in Xinjiang.
Given the complex web of relations in this globalised world, a decision to go to war would be disastrous if both parties are so interlinked and connected via trade, relations, millions of expats living on both sides etc etc. The USA relies on China's huge manufacturing industry and China relies on the American consumers to snap up its goods. I would hardly think both sides would want to risk a war and end up destroying their own economies.
China does not need to flex its military muscles to dominate the globe, if it intends to be the world's strongest superpower, it can in the long run, and not just by hard means.
Let us also think of any issue between China and America that has to be solved by war and cannot be solved by diplomacy/agreements/mediations. Any? Answer, no, it would take something extremely drastic to spark a war.
PS: Numbers just don't cut it in today's battlefields. A man can kill millions at the press of a button without setting eyes on any of his victims.
