Where as it is true that China has the largest military in terms of numbers, it is (currently) no match for the US in terms of China invading the US.
see link
www.cnn.com...
This may be somewhat nationalistic, But I think the Us has the strongest most modern military in the world.
In the open sea's I don't think China could take on the 7 battle groups currently at sea-with their navy, much less the rest of the US navy. On a
fighter plane per fighter plane issue, I don't think China could take on the US airforce. If the issue was could the US invade China and win-don't
think so. With conventional weapons, it would be hard to defeat 2.8 million man standing army, as we learned in the Korean conflict. I remember a
story of when China got into the war. There was a machine gun post on the border and they saw wave after wave of chinese coming. They would mow them
down until the Chinese had to stop and move the bodies aside to continue. They kept it up until they ran out of amo and had to retreat. Even if they
are armed with pitch forks and knives, there are just too many of them to stop, using conventional weapons.
[edit on 16-6-2004 by mrmonsoon]




