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RagEgnite
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| 20 Feb 2013 07:13 AM |
| I'm not sure who'd win, but I bet China would have an advantage due to all the hackings going on around American industries lately. (Which I hear is supposedly planned by the Maoist Chinese government, even though they deny this) |
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wemi
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| 20 Feb 2013 09:27 AM |
| The US would win the naval engagements but neither side could establish a proper bridgehead. |
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Texar
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| 20 Feb 2013 09:51 AM |
Everyone would lose because such a war would be futile.
-The Chinese can't invade the US because our navy would sink their troops before they even got near Hawaii, let alone the west coast.
-The US can't invade China because of how huge and geographically/environmentally diverse it is and how large their military and population is (I'm also sure their own navy would give us a hard time); if you thought Vietnam was bad this scenario would surely make it look like a walk in the park.
-Fighting in another nation such as North Korea or Taiwan (I'd mention Tibet but an invasion of Tibet would be an invasion of mainland China and that'd, again, be a nightmare) just wouldn't work out, we'd surely be at a disadvantage in the former and it's up for debate as to whether Taiwan can actually hold its own or not.
-It's possible Chinese forces could meet our own in the Middle East, but I'd expect nothing short of Middle Eastern nations rallying behind China as their saviors from Western oppressors and the Europeans would surely get involved so that'd quickly become a bit of a... I think the appropriate term here is "Charlie Foxtrot"?
-Russia would get involved almost no matter what. Doubtful it would be to help us...
-India and Pakistan you can bet would use the opportunity of two of the major powers keeping them in line to renew their long-standing feuds... Which is bad, because that conflict alone would probably end in everyone in the world dying.
-A war would ultimately go nuclear. MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction. The whole world loses in this highly likely scenario. |
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SSstar
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| 20 Feb 2013 09:52 AM |
The USA would most likely be able to push China back to their mainland in no time. But the longer the war would go on the better it would turn out for China due to how large of a population China has they would be able to have more factories producing more weapons.
And technically what China is doing right now, sponsoring a hacking group that is attacking the USA, is a declaration of war. |
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SSstar
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| 20 Feb 2013 10:02 AM |
I forgot to mention Taiwan. Taiwan would most certainly favor the USA if a war against China happened. That would give the USA a base to setup airstrips and other such things we would need to invade China. I'm not saying it would be easy at all to invade China but I'm pretty sure there would be a chance we could.
The main goal of the war I would think would be to kill off or capture parts of the Chinese government. Through that you could cripple an entire nation and leave it without a government to run it. At this point the USA could put people who are in places of power in Taiwan in and try to get Taiwan to also govern China as well. I don't quite know how this would work though.
ANOTHER way this war could go on is a sort of siege of China. This could or could not work depending on if other countries also join China. This way of the fighting would allow the USA to cover China's ports and make sure they aren't allowed to export/import anything by sea. And the simple fact that the USA isn't buying anything from China would already cripple their economy. Not to mention their main points of trade would be shut down. I do know that Russia would most likely side with China and help them out but it would be much slower and I would be Russia's government would charge an even bigger tax on the goods seeing as it's one of China's only ways to get very large amounts of goods out of the country to support their wartime industry.
There are many different ways the USA could go about crippling China if they really wanted to. |
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Texar
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| 20 Feb 2013 12:20 PM |
"Taiwan would most certainly favor the USA if a war against China happened. That would give the USA a base to setup airstrips and other such things we would need to invade China."
China has a total land area of 3,747,879sq.mi, diverse landscapes and environments ranging from deserts to forests to jungles and all dotted with some of the longest and largest and most iconic rivers and mountains in the world. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces (not counting Taiwan, which is controversially considered the 23rd), five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities, and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions.
It has the largest military on earth which is both nuclear and has the second largest defense spending in the world. China also has the largest population on earth, the second largest (if not counting the EU, which no one typically does) economy in the world, the fastest growing economy in the world, and is the largest exporter and importer of goods. China has also been pointed as a potential and likely superpower by a wide array of military analysts, academics, and public policy and economics analysts.
It's arguably impossible to invade them.
"The main goal of the war I would think would be to kill off or capture parts of the Chinese government. Through that you could cripple an entire nation and leave it without a government to run it."
Just as we do, they have plans in place for such an emergency as a crippled government, they'd have declared martial law from the moment we begin to build up forces anyways.
"and try to get Taiwan to also govern China as well."
That would never work. You can't force the leaders of one small island upon a massive nation on the mainland. Be like if we forced the Japanese government upon Russia, it just wouldn't work.
"This way of the fighting would allow the USA to cover China's ports and make sure they aren't allowed to export/import anything by sea."
Which would be just as costly to us and allies as it is to them, more so even given we're the ones who rely on those exports and imports, without the Chinese economies presence the global economy would surely suffer.
"seeing as it's one of China's only ways to get very large amounts of goods out of the country to support their wartime industry."
The US was able to support its war effort in WWII quite fine even after having JUST come out of the Great Depression, the Chinese economy is booming, I think they're going to be able to support making the largest military in the world a hell of a lot larger if the need to do so arises...
"There are many different ways the USA could go about crippling China if they really wanted to."
And if I were the Chinese I'd just nuke DC or set off EMP's in orbit over North America and get the whole thing over with, cripple the US and carry on with business as usual. |
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Skellor
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| 04 Mar 2013 05:35 PM |
"and is the largest exporter and importer of goods."
which wont last long
you cant last forever on an export market |
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jedi8527
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| 04 Mar 2013 05:37 PM |
They both lose, war between two of the strongest nations are sure to start another World War. Another World War... Well, lets just say nuclear weapons are sure to be used during the time. |
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naruto198
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| 04 Mar 2013 05:38 PM |
| If they nuked eachother it would be like fallout lol |
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Texar
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| 04 Mar 2013 06:09 PM |
"war between two of the strongest nations are sure to start another World War"
I was not aware the Cold War was actually WWIII (or, well, what ever number, there's been a few), how interesting,.. |
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