I ain't going to happen so....
I ain't going to happen so....
hardly the stuff to make a war, much less one between two countries that are basically connected at the hip at this point.
This forum is like Reddit, the same crap posted at least twice a month or more
China has neither the naval nor air might to go to war with Japan, much less Japan with America protecting them, as they are required to do by the treaties signed after WW2.
All the companies that use China as a cheap manufacturing place (read: slave labor) would just move to other parts of Asia or South America, China's economy would be devastated, and that is before their infrastructure gets reduced to a pile of scrap by US weapons.
The US would end up paying more for lead filled knick-knacks until the factories and shipping at wherever the multinational corporations moved their facilities too get up and running.
China has everything to lose and nothing to gain. Chinas politicians are far too smart to pursue anything like that at this time.
China's politicians are too smart to go to war. Why would you devastate a partnership that has not only solidified your legitimacy, but has grown your country? (regardless of how you feel of their control, and other economic trends)
Anyone who thinks war with China is imminent is a fool.
Not really. China has no force projection capability and most of their population along with infrastructure is on the coast, well within the range of the USS weapons. It would be the political and economic backlash on the US that prevents it right now, since there is literally nothing to gain.
China's political interests lay in expanding its economic power and influence; the state takes active measures to protect its economic interests as its highest active priority. The primary interest in the US is in maintaining political power, ie running for elections and the continuity of ones status. Neither of these are conducive for starting an all out war, as China has very beneficial economic relations with the US and there isn't an overwhelming amount of Americans calling for war.
You play way to many videogames. The age of world wars is over, it will never happen again.
Besides that, your theory has a lot of errors: China and Russia will never ever possibly be allies.
Africa and the arabian world will never ever work together.
Mexico will never ever side with China when that would mean war with the USA.
You overestimate the power of China. They have 0 allies in the region, except for Vietnam to some extent. Every single other country with whom they share borders have disputes with China. Their expense in terms of warcraft might be growing, but they're still outdated.
A lot is needed for a full on war between states to happen. There may be disputes, there may even be attacks, but full on wars are going to be extremely rare in this century.
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Fortunately Finland is a neutral country so the war wouldn't directly affect us, but all prices would probably skyrocket.
World Most Dumb Man is the one going to start war versus nuclear country.
The biggest fear is an unintended hostile act causing things to spiral into a limited naval and air war. All out war is unlikely though.