<p>Would it? Also, a disconcerting video: YouTube</a> - Is There A Civil-Military Gap In China's Peaceful Rise? - Andrew Scobell</p>
<p>Although the coherency of your thread title leaves something to be desired, I think I know what you mean.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly the USA. We have the Navy, the nuclear stockpile, and NATO. Plus, if the Chinese did initiate hostilities, world sympathy would be on the American side. Any type of amphibious landing would easily be annihilated and their naval capabilities, already pitiful, would be wiped out in hours.</p>
<p>At that point, the Chinese people, starving, denied their basic human rights and fed up with their corrupt Maoist government, would probably stage massive protests that would put the Egypt-Tahrir Square events to shame. The Chinese government might very well collapse without a US land invasion necessary. At that point I don’t see why Taiwan wouldn’t reassert control over the mainland and restore democracy to the world’s most populous nation. And they all live happily ever after :D</p>
<p>What could China possibly hope to achieve by invading the US?</p>
<p>A Chinese invasion fleet would never get here. They have no navy to speak of and our air force can fly circles around them. The only way they could ever conquer us would be to catch us completely off guard with a nuclear strike. Even then a strike big enough to be effective wouldn’t leave anything worth invading.</p>
<p>They have the advantage of numbers, but they have no way of getting their numbers over here to attack. On the other hand, if we invaded them they could zerg rush us like they did in Korea.</p>
<p>Let’s see, missiles vs. flying dragons…I have money on the dragons.</p>
<p>We’re America. We can’t lose.</p>
<p>We got Charlie Sheen on our side. Winning here and winning there.</p>
<p>Bi-winning.
We can bang 7 gram rocks, that’s how we roll.</p>
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<p>Bingo.</p>
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<p>I still don’t understand the title…</p>
<p>China would first engage in biological warfare by tainting all of the goods it sends us, decimating our population.</p>
<p>Nah, they already do that but our iron constitutions are too much for them.</p>
<p>It’s all about home-field advantage</p>
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<p>Tell that to the American South.</p>
<p>The home field advantage is the only reason they lasted as long as they did, what with being outnumbered 2 to 1 or worse, having no navy to speak of, and having almost no manufacturing industry while the North was a veritable powerhouse of military innovation.</p>
<p>In my opinion I would have to say that China has a much better chance at winning a war verse the US, even though it would probably not be a smart idea to invade the country that buys a large percentage of your exports. China has recently became a top contender in innovation and education which would easily provide them with much stronger warfare tactics such as chemical and biological warfare, that have never been used against a country as a large scale attack, thus leaving the U.S. with little ways to combat the attack in an timely manner. Furthermore, if the country truly wanted to invaded America they have a more powerful economy and not to mention some around 600 million able body men and women between the ages of 16-49. which in case you don’t know the entire U.S. population stands at about 300 million total, that’s a 2:1 ratio of soldiers to our entire population. They also have war crazy allies who would love to attack America i.e. (North Korea). Ultimately, I believe that China could very well invade America with success but the odds of them taking actions like this are so slim, I think I would have a better chance at predicting the earth’s end date.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure we would win:
* US military spending accounts for 46.5 percent, or almost half, of the world’s total military spending
* US military spending is 7 times more than China, 13 times more than Russia, and 73 times more than Iran.
* US military spending is some 44 times the spending on the six “rogue” states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) whose spending amounts to around $16 billion.
* US spending is more than the next top 14 countries at least.
* The United States and its strongest allies (the NATO countries, Japan, South Korea and Australia) spend something in the region of $1.1 trillion on their militaries combined, representing 72 percent of the world’s total.
* The six potential “enemies,” Russia, and China together account for about $169 billion or 24% of the US military budget.</p>
<p>At the moment, the US would win. However, once our artificially inflated economy collapses and China recovers from the resulting worldwide recession (the US would take much longer to recover), then China would kick our butts.</p>
<p>The bigger question is why China would wage war on America in the first place.</p>
<p>Are you ■■■■■■■■…?, Maybe they’ll eventually be fed up with holding onto our huge piles of debt, and eventually demand it back. We wouldn’t be able to play them, and then they might try to take our resources by force for payment, and tada!, a war.</p>
<p>Keep up son.</p>
<p>@Luke: They’d have to get here before they could use their numbers or even before they could use CBN weaponry on us. China doesn’t have any planes or ships that stand a ghost of a chance of getting to our shores if we don’t want them to. That may change in the future, as they are finally developing some more modern planes and the recession has slowed our own weapons programs somewhat, but they still have a very long way to go. They could nuke us with long-rang missiles, but even there we far outmatch them.</p>
<p>@almost there: Yes, it’s especially lopsided when you consider the likely allies for each side. Although that raises another point: China could somewhat counterbalance our strengths by attacking an ally like Japan or South Korea that we’d be obligated to defend, thus drawing out our army and leveling the playing field rather than attacking us directly and merely decreasing the depth of the Pacific Ocean.</p>
<p>The economy might not play as large a role as some of you suggest: Once we did win the war with China (and we would, especially with the world on our side to defend SKorea and Japan) we could make deals. Eg, if we recognize the Taiwanese government as the legitimate and democratic rulers of mainland China as well, they agree to negate all debts owed to the previous regime. Our economy would rebound rapidly.</p>