who would win the us or china?

Question

just curious

sorry i ment in a war

Answer 1

I hope we never find out.

Answer 2

It would depend. Assuming no nukes were involved, neither side would win a war fought until unconditional surrender, because neither side would be able occupy the other.

The Chinese would simply overwhelm the Americans with numbers on any battlefield - the only reason that the Americans weren't thrown completely back into the sea in Korea was because the Chinese were very poorly equipped, had no artillery, and no air cover. That's changed now, though.

In terms of naval warfare, the Chinese are a long way off from competing with the Americans - which is why there's been no invasion of Taiwan - but that's changing.

If the Americans were to go war over Taiwan (and I don't think they would) the Chinese will win: by the time they get round to invading, they'll have secured enough missiles and other anti-submarine defences to affect a landing.

In the event of a nuclear war, no side will win.

Answer 3

Well if nuclear weapons were allowed then we would surely win. We also still have air supremacy, as I do not think that China has the stealth technology on aircraft like we do... yet. Also more importantly we have a better navy. These two are important because they NEED to rule the seas to even get to us. However something that I would like to point out is that we have NO chance on the ground.

There are a variety of reasons. First lets look our own military. Our army has the best equipment, but if you look at the cost of each Chinese troop versus the cost of each American troop compared to the effectiveness of an American troop versus its Chinese counterpart. Yes American troops are slightly more effective but because the cost difference makes it much more costly for the Americans to lose people than the Chinese. Plus they have more troops. They are better with ground tactics also as warfare is still thought of as an art form over there. The also won't suffer from the severe war weariness that our nation has to endure. For example look at what the media is doing to Bush and how almost the entire nation started acting like wusses(I wanted to use more severe language but I don't know if that is allowed on Yahoo Answers). Also historically the only war that we couldn't win militarily in history was against China. It was called the Korean War in 1950s. What most people don't realize is that it was a single Chinese battalion that pushed the Americans to the sea. The reason why we were able to even push back is because the Chinese thought they proved the point of crossing their borders and headed back. Now I don't know about you but I am weary of any nation that can do that to the US.

So to recap I think that we will win because we can keep most of the casualties in China. However, do not think for a second that it will be as easy as Iraq (Yes you heard me I think that the way people in our nation are acting is despicable and none of the “cut and runners” should call themselves Americans). Expect American deaths numbering over 300,000 people at least in the first couple of years. East Asians perfected guerilla fighting as we have seen in Vietnam. Not to mention contrary to popular belief the Chinese are well fed and have a high level of nationalism. To say that it will be bloody and that there will be outbursts and fighting across the world is an understatement. There are Chinese people and sleeper cells across the globe. The Chinese also have Communist nations and allies of China that hate Americans. Needless to say by the end of such a war the causalities could number in the 100s of millions. I am not overstating it.

Answer 4

You need to add specifics, like militarily, contests, etc.. That would help. I guess if it was militarily, US. Why? Though China has a huge army and population, only 200 million out of over a billion people actually live contently and many want a capitalist government. In this with superior troops (our troops are pretty much the best), the locals may support us which number in the hundreds of millions. Not to mention we only have a small portion of our troops in the middle East at any given time (we actually have more then 2 million I believe). Though we both rely on each other, but China wants Taiwon but Taiwon is a Democracy and the US are prepared to defend Democracy countries at any given point.

Answer 5

a great question because there are so many current events that need to be examined relative to this issue:

Bush a few months ago made what sounded to be an outlandish statement which I have not stopped laughing about since:
"I claim space" around the world this sounded ludicrous and supported the idea that americans are nutty imperialists that now are claiming everything

China blinded one of our spy satellites as it passed over their country with a laser, personally I think if they dont want us watching them they got that right in my opinion.

Very recently China shot down a satellite of their own from low earth orbit. Something to the effect of 125 miles up or so. Our military satelites are at 250 or so miles up. So no immediate threat but what the chinese are saying is if you want to start a war or guide a missile to a target in our country you are in for a big surprise.

Honestly there wont be a war with china unless we get dragged into it over Taiwan. Given what has happened in Iraq we will be in isolationist mode for a very long time. Chinas economy is dependant on us and we wouldnt have clothes for ourselves without them. That doesnt mean contention wouldnt exist but an all out war is improbable.

To the exact question with current technology as it stands it would result in US victory. We have a superior Navy and ultimately they have nothing that is close to it in subs carriers etc. Additonally air superiority is unquestioned China recently aquired a number of russian fighter jets but realistically we are ahead in this area. F-16's are the best fighter I am not claiming in all 1-1 fight but we have alot of them and they are very good. They do have a vastly larger # of actual troops and in that regard we would unlikely be able to invade and conquer the country. In the same vein they would be even less capable of the same because they have no system to deliver large numbers of troops quickly.

Answer 6

It depends on what the competition is. If one is talking militarily, currently no one rivals the US, and the US would win, though by a narrow margin. The only way the US could utterly decimate China in their current condition, is through nuclear annihilation, but conventional warfare would leave both parties extremely damaged, but the US would come out on top.

However, given how fast China is ascending the technological and economic ladder, I think within a decade or two, the tables will be turned, and China would be the clear winner in an armed conflict, and that for that matter as an economic powerhouse as well.

Answer 7

At this point there is no way the U.S. could defeat China in a war.
Logistics, troop numbers and money are the reasons the U.S. would lose.
I think from a naval standpoint we'd beat them pretty good but if we ever got into a land altercation, we would simply be overwhelmed by the number of troops and raw war resources China could bring to the front.
For anyone who said nukes...that's completely and utterly dumb! If we nuked China, Russia would nuke us since we would wind up poisoning millions of russians with the radiatio fall out from nuclear weapons. so of course if it goes Nuclear, that's it folks...that's the end for us all.

Answer 8

The EU.

If the us and china went to war both countries would be destroyed like Europe after WWII. Then the country's that stayed out of the fighting probably the EU would have very little to no damage to there economy could rock in the world market. Like we did in the late 40s and the 50s after WWII.

Answer 9

It would be a nuclear war. Both countries would be turned into wastelands filled with mutants who could not reproduce anything by babies with three heads and tales.

This is a trick question, there will be no winning in the next world war.

Indeed, the fourth world war will be fought with stones.(Einstein)

Answer 10

You really wouldn't like to know the "true" assessment of that question...Our military might has been greatly over-stated,and even though there are those that believe each and everything they're told, action speaks louder than words, and I will assure you.If China had attacked Iraq,for what-ever reason, it would have truly been a "cake-walk" because there is true strength in numbers,and they have definitely got the numbers,and with so many of our troops preoccupied in other arenas, they would be like ants on an old popsickle stick

Answer 11

the us, no doubt.

china may have more soldiers than the us, but the best they could do to attack us is launch missiles at us. and considering that they don't have that many icbms it wouldn't be much of a problem.

they couldn't send troops here because there navy is very small and isn't capable of moving a large military across an ocean.

the us on the other hand has many, many weapons that can reach china. if need be we could move most of our troops over there (we already have a lot in s. korea and okinawa).

also consider this. the us spends more on our military than the rest of the world combined.