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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The Saddam stuff to me was always linked to 9/11 and America lashing out on the war on terror. I don't see the link. This is more of a Cold War than anything like Iraq.
There isn't going to be an actual war with China unless they invade Taiwan.
You can disagree with the US going after China economically - but its just normal politics. The US wants to be the solo super power. China wants to also be a super power. They have conflicting goals so they are going to logically be at odds. Canada is going to go along with what their giant neighbour and ally wants when its just a economic battle.
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Just to put this here, but even with China spending a ton of money on upgrading their navy and airforce, they don't have the amphibious capability to land invade Taiwan unless they're willing to level the whole island first. It doesn't make sense, the human cost to China would be huge, its not like Taiwan is militarily weak.
Its not like China's navy even with its fancy new carrier would stay alive for long against a American Battle Group with at least one super carrier. Also America's submarines are far better then China's submarine forces.
I'm not saying that China's navy is a paper tiger. Regionally its quite powerful. And Militarily China's military is just far numerically superior to a pretty capable Taiwan airforce and Military.
And China won't want to risk American retaliation if they basically flatten Taiwanese cities and key infrastructure.
If China is going to do anything its go after the rich resource islands through the South China Sea that other nations have laid claim to.
But to invade Taiwan. China has something like 30 landing ship tanks 30 small ambitious assault boats and 8 major assault boats. And most of those would probably be wrecked before they got in position to land troops.