If they were to confront China directly, I would guess the US and the west are much more likely to take a containment approach like they did with the USSR.
2)India isn't dovish or shy about confronting China.
3)The PLA is comprised of mostly only-sons and hasn't been deployed in a real conflict.
Sorry, did you forget the Korean war? Sure, Sino-Indian and Sino-Vietnamese wars were much smaller by comparison, but also very real conflicts.
The US has been in near constant war for almost 100 years, having big parades with uniforms doesn't make up for that.
Not too sure. There are obvious fake negative news about China and racism comments from Fox News/YouTube. For Chinese people, it’ll be quite a mixed feeling to see toxic content on China, e.g. Wuhan virus, China must pay, etc. I’d say those content might come first to hurt their feelings.
As a native Chinese, it’s still emotionally tough for me to browse China related topic even on HN which is a much more principled forum. Let alone other media
Despite politicians and talking heads claiming for years that either Desert Storm, UN sanctions, or both caused half a million child deaths, evidently most studies found that the child mortality rate in Iraq was unchanged throughout the 1990s.
https://psmag.com/news/the-iraq-sanctions-myth-56433
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Iraqi-death-toll-doe...
While this apparently fake statistic has mostly been used to criticize the US and UN, it seems Tony Blair used it to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, claiming the dead kids were Saddam's fault.
I guess this is why I don't read the papers much anymore.
https://www.wired.com/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-contin...
The US isn't going to invade China; I mean, it fought North Korea to a draw and could stomach Vietnam, and you think it's going to make a credible threat to invade China over internal policy?
And, if it did make such a threat and China believed it, that would just drive things into high gear. When someone's already doing a plan that is basically forcibly assimilate or exterminate, a timeline just pushes it to expedite the latter.
Vietnam is more interesting but I think it's very unlikely that a conflict with the PLA today would unfold in the same way.
Figuring out what type of conflict would force China into a nuclear exchange is probably the only question worth asking. would liberating Tibet and Xinjiang do that? Probably, but it also could be the case that Beijing wouldn't risk being vaporized themselves for a people and place they deem so inferior.
Nuke everybody. The CCP would have nothing to lose.
I am so glad that geopolitics I'd handled by a select few rather than the supposedly educated crowd of hacker news...
Good luck invading China when your planes melt in the rain and your boats are constantly running into each other.
What's China going to do? Keep up its million people in concentration camps?
It'll totally say "hahaha that's funny we dont have any concentration camps though" and then free its concentration camps by deadline.
I think that's how it should play out.
Of course it is not what's happening. Everyone is turning a blind eye including me and people in this thread. The last time I suggested this course of action I was downvoted.
Guys, a million people is SO MANY. I mean ignoring fifty or a hundred thousand people is one thing. But a million?
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Edit: this is not a hawkish sentiment. Obviously the suggestion is absurd.