I'm not Chinese and could care less, just thought I'd stop by and say your country is what 230ish years old? Whereas China has been the preeminent asian power for 3,000 and probably been in and out of the global number 1 spot many times over. Pretty sure they did allright in the Korean war. Recently the first nation to land a craft on the far side of the moon. They can pretty much manufacture the same products any other nation can and figured that out over the last 40 ish years.
They are a solid number 2 across the board, growing economy with a billion people and a far more homogeneous population than most other nations on the planet. I just think it's funny when you say "they aren't as powerful as you think." China isnt even remotely economically similar to the USSR, and militarily they don't lose a war with the US. Instead, the entire world loses since the outcome of a Sino-US war is mutually assured self destruction. So it would probably be better to figure out how to peacefully and cooperatively coexist.
I didn't suggest that the US and China should go to war. I said that they are no match for us militarily. That means they will not attack us because they are terrified of losing. In their thousands of years of bullying their neighbors they have always done very poorly on the sea. Again, nobody wins a nuclear war, including them. That's why they won't do it. That sounds exactly like the power struggle between the US and USSR. USSR was the second biggest economy in the world when we toppled them too. They built that economy on 5 year plans by a central communist party controlling everything directly, exactly like China. They were competing and often beating the US in the space race, just like China. And actually China's population is around 1.4 billion.
This is exactly like the struggle between the US and USSR and nobody thought Rayguns could pull it off. In fact he didn't, not on his own anyway, he was senile, the US did it. This is history repeating itself. I am absolutely against a ground invasion of China. We saw how our ground forces fair on Asian soil in Vietnam and in Korea. Don't twist up what I'm saying.
Even so, in an open war, the only victory China could achieve would be a ground war in Asia.
They can't even invade Taiwan.
When the USSR fell to economic pressure, it had one of the biggest ground armies in the history of mankind and the second biggest economy right behind the US. They were engaged in massive economic projects the likes of which the world had never seen, changing the landscape of vast areas and draining entire seas. They were developing technologies of their own that were in many ways superior to our, something China can't even do now.
The USSR were facing popular uprisings on a regular basis which they brutally crushed, exactly like Tiananmen square, keep an eye on Hong Kong.
Flat out, you're wrong and your argument relies on a distortion of what I suggested.
