Originally posted by RTStabler51:
I think the biggest threat China poses is an economic one. They are building nukes, and I believe have ICBMs, but the one thing they cannot do is project their Army anywhere far away. Locally, maybe. That's why our military (IMO) is so great. We can project it quickly, and overwhelm you quickly too. China may have the numbers, but we have the technology (at least the stuff they haven't stolen or reverse engineered yet).



China has no deployable power, but they can never be invaded, even by the US. So long as we're talking strictly conventional here the US will suffer a lot of losses going into China.

And China cannot militarily invade Taiwan, the US can shoot down whatever they send over.

But the biggest threat yes is economic, there's a massive unskilled labour force there that will do manufacturing jobs for cheap. If the US doesn't pour more money into education, when manufacturing is entirely gone from the US and done in China -- you're going to have a lot of angry Americans just looking to start trouble.