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>>21202132
you might be surprised at what a run they could give us.

Besides military tech or numbers or any other Jane's bullshit, think about it this way: all conflicts are at their root decided by the situation at home. Right now, China can present a united front against the West. A huge part of their population is even itching to do it. Can the US do the same, as a country?

Can the US and its allies in Europe and Asia do the same, as a group?

>>19798227
Foreign policy/IR person here. I studied China and the PRC military specifically.

DESU Indians don't have a chance. PRC has spend the last two and a half decades building a lot of infrastructure in the Himalayas... roads, bridges, airfields, military installations, etc etc etc. They can rapidly deploy a military which is far more modern and has better combined arms training (which desu is not saying much when your competition is the Indian army). Earlier today I saw a video on twitter some Chinese citizen took of a column of... iirc about 3-5 dozen self-propelled artillery pieces and IFVs being trucked in somewhere in Tibet near the border. That's a lot of materiel.

The tldr is this: the PLA has more soldiers, better trained, with better equipment and support in the region, and they will be able to be reinforced rapidly if things grind out.