The USA will do jack # when it comes to china because the bully dares not pick on someone its own size and before pointing out all the miss deads in China people would do better to look closer to home where the young can not afford a roof over their heads because the zionist bankers have us all paying $250,000 for a few meters of mud.

Who's land is it anyway.

I Forgot it belonged to native americans and dead men don't speak so lets speak about Pal-Pot, Starlin and hope no one is educated egnougth to know a few home truths.

Originally posted by Arbitrageur

Originally posted by meathed
Only if the US wants their arse kicked will they be involved.
The US doesn't have enough soliders to go around.
Well Not anymore anyway unless they bring back the draft and the US government starts stealing peoples kids AGAIN.

What about all the soldiers freed up from Iraq?

There's no doubt that China has the ability to muster one of the largest armies in the world in terms of pure numbers of men, not only because their population is so large, but also because their male to female ratio favors men.

The US wouldn't try to pit man against man because they would lose in such a conflict due to China's larger numbers.

I think the US strategy would be to try to leverage technology, and not reply on headcount. But the US doesn't really want to fight China, since they are economic friends and trading partners.

But all China would need to do is sit back and wait for your economy to finish to collapse,Our Aussie dollars are worth more than yours, so that means in your terms that the world and OZ can buy more bullets than you yanks can buy at the moment.
Then after your economy collapses,( Like it is doing) and then after the panic sets in, after you turn on each other, then the world would move in , If they wanted to. But i really dont see them wanting to. Why would they? You have nothing they want. Nothing. Nothing.
Even though Charlie Sheen says it america, But guess what??? You AINT WINNING

I think We would leave Taiwan blowing in the wind. If they threatened South Korea or Japan,We would get involved

China just set sail an aircraft carrier totally back engineered from American technology.

General MacArthur was right in wanting to take on China back in the 50's. We SHOULD have done it then.

It's just a matter of time now, IMO.

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I really don't think so. Where's the oil? That's where U.S. gets involved.

Not being au fait with international diplomatic developments in general terms, I don't yet know how the America-China-N.Korea relationship used to be, but I am starting to connect the three in regards to convening the initiating conflict of World War 3. Much as Germany's invasion of Poland pretty much initiated the Second World War, any aggression between two of those three (or four including Taiwan) could well become the spark that lights the blue touch-paper. If America were drawn into such a conflict, there's a chance that culturally sympathetic Russia would take decisive action against the US, being as they are - generally a bit annoyed with the foreign 'policies' of the USA.

Here's a little comment which sums up the potential for this conflict to escalate; and provides a reason for possible degradations in the relationship between America and China.

NB - On reading this, bear in mind the current talk about China's currency taking over as the lead international currency in the face of a weakening Dollar... Such little changes can incrementally increase international tensions over the course of several years.

China has not removed more than 1,000 short-range and mid-range missiles aimed at Taiwan, Ma said. He said the island still wanted to buy F-16 fighter jets from the United States to upgrade its military.

There are a few more reasons I'm sure, which if combined with the above (both the quote and the currency issue) could add fuel to the fires of any global conflict episodes. (eg North Korea aggression against S. Korea & the US - China is obviouusly allied to N. Korea).. These things could turn nasty, with massive global ramifications.

Any American tactical action against China would have to be full on, considering the scale of China's defence measures. Non-nuclear bombardment with high-tech alternatives to nukes would likely be the mutually suitable choice in the first place. Especially so if it is a staged, enabling war.