Question about China's fleet

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Originally Posted by Karle94

Could China take on Vietnam? They tried before withou much success. If they tried to take the Phillipines they`d have trouble from some enemies with a navy that could level China to the ground. They have a large military but they might not know how to use it properly. Take the Korean war for example. The Chinese attack and pushes the UN forces back all the way out of N.Korea. Then they loose the initative and gets pushed back until there`s a stillstand around the current border. I think a modern war will be much the same. They`re overwhelming force will only serve them at the start. Then their shear numbers will become a liability. What if the US carpet bombs the areas where their forces are at? How much will remain as you can`t simply hide millions upon millions of soldiers in one day.

I doubt China will be that rash. If it made one wrong move then the whole world would turn against it. They'd stop buying Chinese goods and China's massive export market would fail.

If there was a military conflict, Vietnam and the Phillipines wouldn't stand against such large numbers but America would probably be drawn into the war sooner or later, and with them, Japan or perhaps Britian which are on the same level in technological advancement.