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Re:What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea by AnimalMuppet on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:31PM (#9983021)
Unless they're going to swim or row, those 700 million humans who could fight if needed don't do much in a naval war.

The risk is, if the Chinese pick a naval fight and their navy gets pummeled, it's a PR disaster. That's a risk for the leadership, not so much for the country.

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Re:What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea by dm2 on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:43PM (#9983101)
That's 700 million potential factory workers, military support staff, and soldiers, and the factories are already built, US companies paid for many of them.
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Re:What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea by curiousjorge on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:50PM (#9984743)
so what does that have to do with naval warfare? You going to build thousand islands on sand during wartime?
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