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Originally Posted by Mohoender
As a result, China doesn't become a threat to US but US is no longer a threat to China.
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IMPO, this is a very sound and concise assessment of the strategic military tilt between the world's current superpowers.
China has for decades been making qualitative improvements to its military- a military designed to fight a large-scale conventional war- while the U.S. has been slimming down its military and molding it to fight in smaller scale counterinsurgency campaigns. If this trend continues, China will be prepared to fight the U.S. in a conventional war (Taiwan, Korea?) while the U.S. will not be prepared to fight the Chinese. We're probably still a decade or two away from that day, but it's a somewhat worrisome trend.
I too am flabbergasted by the Western World's dismissal of Chinese military capabilities and potential. The U.S. had a very similar attitude about Japan prior to WWII and it cost us dearly.