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Re:What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea by turar on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:41PM (#9983091)
>> A military conflict that would be launched by China so far away from it's coastline makes no sense where US has dozens of nearby bases

How does a military conflict between China and US even look like, I always thought it immediately escalates to nuclear war.

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Re:What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea by noir_lord on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:12PM (#9983323)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/0544...

Read that last week, it's a about a future war between the US and the Chinese, it's bordering on sci-fi but interesting nonetheless and a good read.

Interestingly it posits a future where the US economy is in major trouble as the reason why the US Navy has been severely downsized, they had to do that since the current US Navy vs the current PLA Navy while horrific wouldn't be remotely a fair fight.

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Re:What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea by curiousjorge on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:56PM (#9984759)
I don't think so unless nukes is all they had (ex. North Korea). The first side to threaten nuclear attack would be effectively declaring military defeat.
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