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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I would think that China has three contigency plans in their books
1) Deploy their own versions of peace keepers to seperate any SK,U.S. troops from going too deep into NK
2) If NK starts something, China quickly moves in to secure the NK leadership, topples the government and installs a puppet regime which allows them to ask for peace.
3) Declare a line in the sand very similar to the first Korean war and state that if you cross this line we're coming.
I don't think that China can counter American Airpower in the region, nor can they counter American naval power or American advanced armour artillary and other in field assets.
But they can throw lots and lots of troops into the frey.
The question as always is how well the South Korean army would do, in the last war they were poor performers and depended on the international community to save their country, I don't know if they would fare much better.
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Big problem you havent looked at is how globalized our world is now. Chinese foreign investment into American companies is very very large. How do you sever ties with that sort of thing? Where do we get all our clothes and cheap products?
I think by that account every major power country tries to avoid wars because they will only hurt themselves in the long run. We need them and they need us. No country is completely independent anymore.
I agree China would step in and remove power from NK only after a joint attack by SK and United states.