Can China take on Japan and Taiwan after its economically ready and militarily???

Question

China is having problems with their two faced brother Japan and its bitchi sister Taiwan.SO when Taiwan officially declared independence can China really fight Taiwan and Japan say in 25 years.People's Liberation army is the second best ranked army in the world in military capability.But it needs to get better.I China's army a was like Japan's Imperial army in the early 1900s before 1930) relying too much on foreign equipment.And the same economic position as Japan in that timeline, backwards structurally and technologically .But China has the man power and industry that Japan didn't have.

Gerams built their army up in 6 years after the nazi party came to power!!!

GERMANS NOT GERAMS lol

hey suraj
USA believes China is understating its military spending by 200-300 percent at least.Japan cant fight China they have a low rate airforce and ground force.

Answer 1

China can take on Japan and Taiwan. That's a fact. Taiwan has almost no army. Japan is tough but their lack of activeness has made their military old and rusted. China has the power, that is until the United States steps in. Once that happens, China is most likely doomed. Let us all hope nothing of this sort will happen.

Answer 2

Instead of how you put it, I would say that Taiwan is having trouble with its bullying brother the so-called PRC. Sure, China would win a war of attrition since it doesn't value the lives of its own people. But the PRC craves international respectability and recognition, such as by hosting the Olympics and joining groups like the WTO and OECD. Any aggressive moves against a democratic neighbour seeking self-determination, WHICH IS TAIWAN'S RIGHT, would rightly result in international condemnation. The question is not can the PRC do this militarily - though remember it would be facing the combined forces of Taiwan and America - but should it risk its standing in the international community by doing so?

Taiwan is a free and successful country - more so than Red China. Why on earth should they want to live under that corrupt, human rights-abusing dictatorship? If the people of the PRC ever throw out their government and replace it with a REAL people's government - freely chosen from a choice of parties - then maybe Taiwan will want reunification, though it seems China is big enough already.

Answer 3

This is one of those questions that begs for a reality check. So do some of the answers.

Japan does NOT have the "second largest defense budget in the world". It currently clocks in at 4th. Top honors goto the United States with $518 BILLION spent per year on defense. China ranks second with $81 billion, France third with $45 billion, Japan is fourth with $44 billion. These figures are deceptive, because the United States is mortgaging future capability to fund its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; the PRC has bloated forces it has been trying to cull since the 90s, and a hell of a lot of "catch-up" spending to do in materiel; France and Japan both insist on sustaining expensive domestic arms industries and as such, overpay on much of their ticketed items per annum.

The claim that the PLA is the world's second ranked military is absurd. The PLA has too many sideshow business concerns and loyalty problems to be considered a truly professional fighting force. It's legacy equipment from the 50s, 60s and 70s which is just now beginning to replace burdens it immensely. Its domestic arms industry is a shambles. The latest effort to replace all small arms in its police and military is a crude joke.

The PLA does not "rely too much on foreign equipment like the Japanese Imperial Army". That claim is total nonsense. Both the PLA and the Imperials relied heavily on an imaginitive, if moribund domestic arms industry to provide weapons. The PLA's equipment legacy stretches to what it received from the USSR before the infamous 50s split and what it was able to reverse engineer since then. The influx of high-ticket price Russian weapons since the 90s has been minimal. The Imperials had some British-designed ships from the 20s, but otherwise had a thriving (if not wholly efficient) arms industry that had minimal infusion of foreign technology, even from Nazi Germany.

The PRC has the manpower, but it is not educated, employed manpower on par with Japan - and the PRC does not have the industrial base to compete with Japan. The PRC's industries are inefficient, its power grid is antiquated, its banking system is a mess, and infrastructure from roads to ports is on the brink of failure, asides from a few SEZ's, never mind the red tape and corruption. Japan has nowhere near the unemployment the PRC has, and has industrial capacity to spare. The PRC's only true advantage is in raw materials, of which it cannot utilize fully. Calling a hundred million uneducated and unemployed citizens anything other than a national disaster on part of the PRC is nothing short of disingenuous.

25 years is pushing it for a PRC vs Taiwan or PRC vs Japan confrontation. Waving the flag does not make structural problems disappear. The PRC is NOT prepared for a war from which it will emerge with a clear victory, and saying it will be so in 25 years is laughable.

The whole question of pitting one sovereign nation against another, with the sort of suffering war causes, is criminal. Only those whose lives are actually at risk are usually anywhere near honest about something so disastrous.

Answer 4

One your question is a bit out of line. If the Chinese Army was the second best in the world, then it shouldn't have any trouble taking on Japan & Taiwan simultaneously. Despite not being, in my view, the second best Army in the world, the PLA of today can take on both countries but for the shortage of landing craft required to perform the sea crossing for a large number of men.
Next one wouldn't call the Japanese ineffective - they have the second largest defence budget in the world - just behind the US and well ahead of China. PLA has normally won wars through battles of attrition - which have resulted in heavy loss in lives to itself. I would like to say that your understanding of the PLA's capabilities are poor for a patriot, if you feel that it requires 25 years to take on Japan or Taiwan militarily. Another 25 years will mean that the PLA will maybe just use a finger instead of the hand it will need now.

Answer 5

Taiwan and Japan are fictitious enemies to China. The real prizes are Tibet, Mongolia and the Eastern half of once was the former Soviet Union. China could take 100 million guys, cross Afghanistan and take Iran (and I mean in a very very bloody way) too and not even really phase their population.

The real reason China is saber rattling is to get the U.S. to spend billions on equipment that won't even really phase China like subs, aircraft carriers and a few thousand troops. Notice the U.S. has absolutely no way to get China to give up Tibet and in efect just let China have it. Why? Because even without Iraq and Afganistan in the way, the U.S. couldn't get in a position to liberate Tibet. If China wanted to hop to Afganistan, again, there is little anybody could do about it.

Answer 6

though a somehwat poorly worded question (china's not two-faced?), i'd have to say china'd crush japan and taiwan, unless they were backed by the west (which they'd likely be). all three are technically advanced, so there'd be a lot of collateral damage, but china's just too big, and taiwan and japan too small, even if japan was allowed to have an army, which, at the moment, it isn't, twenty five years isn't a great deal of time to build one from the defense force in place.

Answer 7

Hi
China will not be in a position to attack anyone for twenty years yet.They have too many internal problems to fix.Even though there army is big ,there navy and airforce is far below standed. There navy and airforce could only support military actions for more than six weeks.There biological weapons program is progressing well.

wayne wells

Answer 8

It would be a war between China and The rest of the Western World.

Answer 9

Taiwan will automatic surrender to China some day. For japan i think china is not go to spent there time on it

Answer 10

China is evena able to invade US' fleet in Pacific.
china have been developed into one of 4 most nuclear powerful country (USA, russia, israel, china), and japan/taiwan are far outmatched