so whats the liklihood china will go to war with the west? - and I'm not talking about a trade war.

[Niggaplease]

as the title goes, what with the recent actions taken against china by the USA what is the likelihood that we will end up in an actual conflict with China? would we nuke each other or would the USA just put a naval blockade? like also would we cut off China's access to the resources they bought in Africa?

 

[DumbDude42]

open war? 0% likely

 

[Niggaplease]

open war? 0% likely

but what if China said fuck it lets go to war?

 

[DumbDude42]

but what if China said fuck it lets go to war?

they'd get blown up because america outguns them hard on the sea and in the air

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Very unlikely, there's very little benefit to open war in modern world.

 

[Some JERK]

https://armedforces.eu/compare/country_USA_vs_China

 

[LullerDerbyRollin]

Well if they did, besides everyone here mentioning that the USA out guns them, there's another problem. The USA is how China makes money, they export a lot to the USA and also import a lot. They'd be locked out of doing either of those and the USA would have no reason to honor any debts or agreements. China likes money more than any pride or ego, the USA can in every way fuck them.

 

[Bob's Fries]

There is also a huge reliance on food from China to the US. If they try to fuck us, we can always starve them out. After all, the floods killed their farmland and necessary infrastructure to deliver supplies with a healthy dose of locusts as of late.

 

[Tetra]

but what if China said fuck it lets go to war?

there is a 0% chance china will go to war with the united states.
however if china said fuck it lets go to war there would be a 100% chance they'd go to war

glad I could help

 

[Niggaplease]

there is a 0% chance china will go to war with the united states.
however if china said fuck it lets go to war there would be a 100% chance they'd go to war

glad I could help

what I'm saying is what would happen if China went to war? would farmers rise up as a sign emporer Winnie xi pooh lost the mandate of heaven? would they just nuke the USA and in turn the USA would nuke them off the map? would daddy Russia bail them out?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

wont happen. there is no profit in it for both sides.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

There is also a huge reliance on food from China to the US. If they try to fuck us, we can always starve them out. After all, the floods killed their farmland and necessary infrastructure to deliver supplies with a healthy dose of locusts as of late.

Even were it not for floods and locusts China has little land to farm and they made a lot of it toxic. Well technically the world enabled to them to do that...ha.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

People have been saying this since Bush but it will never happen. It's paleo GOP shit thinking.

China thinks it makes them look cool to publicly dunk on the USA, but in reality they're bankrolling the US military.

If you haven't noticed, China has been throwing Muslims in concentration camps for years, and by funding the USA, they're allowing America's massive military force to sit all over the Middle East. They love it, Arabs and Asians historically have bad blood. And it really takes the heat off of them to focus their own military on their own nation and enforcing their internal dictatorship.

Not to mention, the sweatshop situation, for iPhone manufacturing and such? It allows Chinese companies to essentially get free access to high-tech blueprints and research while having done none of the research work. They have a very beneficial relationship being parasitic, and they will never mess that up no matter how much they pretend to shit on America. They'll keep this up for decades until they get their collective shit together, which won't be for a while because their culture is a mess and they have already fucked up badly with the aftermath of the One Child Policy, Mao's genocides, decades of civil war and famine in recent history, so on and so forth. Going to war with America would be the worst thing for them because they fear getting flooded with "diversity" as is happening to Europe right now. They're too weak to fight that without the USA blocking the Middle East.

BUT HEY hypothetically, if they tried, let's just say they did try to invade the USA... Their military is garbage compared to the USA. The USA has the most advanced, strong, fast, efficient military of any country, and without sperging over details, America has the most state-of-the-art military research and technology, period.

The economic reality also paints a clear picture, a full third of all military spending on the PLANET is just the USA. China is a close second, but if you break down their spending per capita (America with a 330 million pop vs China with 1.4 billion pop), it's obvious that they actually cannot afford to spend nearly as much per soldier, and they also would have to rely on a brutal war of attrition, just throwing Chinese bodies on top of bodies because America would be able to kill at an unmatched rate.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

An actual shooting war? 0%. Even with things as they are now, China gets too much money from us and we get too much cheap labor from China to get into an actual, troops-and-tanks war.

 

[Jewthulhu]

All out war between two nuclear superpowers? Very unlikely. If the past 75 years has taught us anything, it's that the new normal is proxy wars fought in 3rd world/non-nuclear nations.

 

[Marissa Moira]

but what if China said fuck it lets go to war?

They can't mobilize their troops. They would be effectively sitting ducks, especially since Japan and Korea would insist on being involved.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

Yeah the US has complete naval dominance to such an overwhelming degree that US soil is effectively untouchable by conventional means whereas we can get sufficient force anywhere in the world relatively quickly.

Which circles back to China would have to nuke us which, frankly, they won't ever do because of the principle of mutually assured destruction

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

Yeah the US has complete naval dominance to such an overwhelming degree that US soil is effectively untouchable by conventional means whereas we can get sufficient force anywhere in the world relatively quickly.

Which circles back to China would have to nuke us which, frankly, they won't ever do because of the principle of mutually assured destruction

Best they could hope for is literally a stalemate. Also, the USA has troops stationed in every single country on the planet. The amount of strategic and intelligence power from that alone is superior. America is everywhere, we're not called "The police of the world" for no reason.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Even with all the current day fuckery China's #1 exporter is still the USA (at least it was last year), it would not be beneficial to them to cut that off completely. And the USA is on a different continent and with all those carriers China could not bring the war to America's doorstep.

 

[whatever I feel like]

In the next year? 0%
In the next 5000 years? 99.5% (and the rest is everyone dying due to some other war or event)

In that sense its not really an answerable question.