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Originally posted by JBRiddle
Reasons this will never Happen!
1.) China is on the other side of the #ing planet. It would be a logistical night mare to try and occupy something as large as the United States. Besides they want southeast Asia as there playground.
2.) The Navy required to achieve perform such an undertaking does not exist. During World War II when we invaded Europe it required years of planning and over 5,000 ships, and 10,000 aircraft. And we were crossing less than 100 miles of ocean to get to the beach head. The CHI-COMs would be crossing over 6,000 miles of ocean to get here.
3.) Given the over 6,000 miles there invasion fleet would have to travel, they would be sunk long before they ever got near Hawaii let alone the US mainland.
4.)To quote Napoleon: "An Army lives on its stomach". China does not have enough domestic framing to support its population, hence it has to import most of its food. An a good deal of that food comes from the United States and other place via ship.
Originally posted by JBRiddle
Reasons this will never Happen!
5.)China may be an manufacturing power house, but when it comes to resources it if force to import just about everything save coal and rare earth (major mineral use in modern electronics). Since most of these resources are imported via Sea routes, it would be an easy task to cut off China from here supplies.
I could go on but you get the picture.
Originally posted by requires1231
reply to post by BO XIAN
Sorry I didn't read the post but the title caught my attention because in 1996 I had a dream about being attacked by China while I was in Downtown LA. There were 10s of thousand of these hover-bombs, bunched in over a dozen or so swarms, like locusts, and after they'd hover for a while, one by one, they'd let out an eardrum-busting screech then they'd explode. Caustic fluids and shrapnel shot out from them and blanketed people by the thousands. I was running through the street with a newborn baby (I hadn't had kids yet) and I ducked under marquee and watched people burn up all around me. I knew I was dreaming and when I got to the point where I could wake myself up, I did. But just before waking up I looked over at a newspaper stand and every publication featured headlines about the U.S. being at war with China. That's when I knew it was China responsible for the carnage.
Seven years later a friend posts lyrics to a song he'd written, credited to a dream he had, on Myspace. The lyrics were eerily similar to my dream, down to the location and everything: Downtown L.A.
Originally posted by theindependentjournal
reply to post by BO XIAN
Listened to Dimitu Dutiman tell that through his grandson many years ago when he was alive yet.
remember he names Russia,Venezuela, Iran and Cuba in that Chinese attack also...
Originally posted by damingus
With the amount of money we owe them, it wouldnt surprise me if they tried to attack or invade.
Originally posted by DISRAELI
If America is heavily in debt to the Chinese, then it is decidedly against the financial interest of the Chinese either to invade America or to let America be destroyed in any other way.
Unless America keeps going, they won't get their money back.
Originally posted by DISRAELI
If America is heavily in debt to the Chinese, then it is decidedly against the financial interest of the Chinese either to invade America or to let America be destroyed in any other way.
Unless America keeps going, they won't get their money back.
Originally posted by ColAngus
We went through this whole pseudo hysteria with the Soviet Union in the 80s as well.
Watch "Red Dawn" sometime to see what I mean.
Its not about money. If it was, the Chinese would have started fighting us when we forced them to raise the value of their Yuan.....which reduced their profits/income/assets....
Originally posted by truthseeker1984
Any nation that tried to invade the US on home turf would be committing suicide (and would be very, very stupid).
Admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese fleet during WWII said it best:
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
All it would take is a few tactical nuke strikes to take down any forces invading our home soil. This isn't to mention all the "crazy rednecks" with Bibles, Jesus, and guns on their side that would gladly take up the fight.
The personnel needed to do this would have to be the largest standing army in the history of man. If you figure 300+ million US citizens and 1/3 of them would be able to fight, that is 100 million people with guns (not to mention the older "not-in-military-shape" people that have guns and know how to use them). With the way that our troops are equipped, you would have to have 5-10 Chinese soldiers for every 1 US soldier, and this isn't even to mention our air force, drones, armored infantry, Navy, etc. It would be impossible unless every nation in the world decided all at once to unite to destroy the US. If nukes entered the equation, that would be the end of the world, because of the Mutually Assured Destruction theory.
With that being said, China won't invade the US, not now, not ever. They're welcome to try, but I guarantee that they would fail.
-TS