I'll have to give some more thought to the bio-warfare ideas that have been posted. I'm leery of going hard in that direction because, although I like my T2K grim, I'm not sure I want it global pandemic grim. I want to be able to differentiate between T2K and The Stand.
@CDAT: As to the container ship idea, it's devious and I like it, but it's pretty much a one-way ticket and I'm not sure the Chinese would go in for something hopeless like that. If we were talking WWII-era Japan, then hell yeah, but from my reading of the PLA and where it's been heading over the past 30 years, a large-scale suicide mission like the one you've described doesn't seem to fit.
I just got Osprey's The Chinese People's Liberation Army since 1949: Ground Forces (Elite) today and, so far, it's reinforced by assessment of the PLA's growing capabilities. It's scary to think about where they'll be, organizationally, doctrinally, and technologically in 20-30 years.
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