Has anybody forgoten that the Chinese military is actually fairly crap. In numbers its army is the largest in the world, its navy is the second largest in the world, and its air force is the third largest in the world, but they haven't got the logistical capability to deploy their army overseas in significant numbers, and the air and naval equipment is not better than any of their neighbours, in facts the Japanese and South Korean air force and navy are more advanced.
Despite what you read about China developing secret stealth fighters and super aircraft carriers, the best they have has either been bought or built under license from Russia, or is simply knocked off Russian and other foreign technology produced semi-legally in China. If the Chinese navy and air force went head to head with the US Navy and USAF it would be hammered, end of story.
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