Who would win in a war, China or the United States?

Question

I think China would win

Answer 1

Right now, the U.S. is still stronger, but that may change.

Of course, we're so busy in Iraq, we might not have time to fight.

I think the bigger question is whether the rest of the world would sit idly by as China tried to attack the U.S.

Answer 2

"War" is such an open-ended enterprise. Are we talking limited? Conventional? Nuclear?

China's only ready force at the moment is its 15th Airborne Army. Its Group Armies have been cut down several times during its modernization drives over the last decade, and have had to be rigorously monitored for loyalty because of Tiannanmen.

China has a terrible road network, it has no strategic lift to speak of, and everything it has is more or less pointed towards Taiwan.

America could reduce China to ruin simply by clearing the western Pacific and bombing China's infrastructure - the bulk of which is concentrated on the coast - to ruin.

Once the Chinese government loses its ability to move its troops, it will have no means of imposing order. China will basically implode, as it uses brute force to keep minorities and dissident movements in line. Once the military and the police are wrecked, the Chinese people will move in and finish the country off. It will be complete anarchy, and it will not be pretty. The aftermath won't be democracy either. It will be warlordism, just as it has always been in China's past.

On the flip side, China has nothing that could impact American social order or its infrastructure on anywhere near such a scale. Population is of no consequence if you do not have the ships, planes, and supplies to sustain such movement. China has none of that in sufficient quantities.

In a limited war, say over Taiwan, China would likely prevail if the 7th Fleet was kept out somehow, either by surprise attack or by diplomacy. If it is all-out conventional, China is a barrel full of water moccasins ready to tear each other apart.

In the event things go nuclear, there is no winner. Just losers, and big losers.

Answer 3

If we are talking in terms of a conventional war, then that depends on who's turf you are fighting on, if the US was fighting to defend itself from being invaded by China then it would win, and vise versa, but the US has far more up its sleeve in technological warfare at the moment and I can't see that changing in China's favor for some time to come.

In a nuclear scenario it still looks the same way, the US has the capability to fire from any of its subs at very close range before the Chinese could even get one out of its airspace, the subs are the most powerful force in terms of a nuclear war, and the US has too many to be contended with, in any case if the Chinese were to compete and match the US it only means one thing " MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION"

Answer 4

Well it would depend on the type of war and where it was fought. Both countries have advantages in various situations. Land mass and population aren't the only things that matter. Look at what Japan did to China during WWII, and Japan was fighting the U.S. and Britain at the same time.

Answer 5

conflict is "Pandora's container." You under no circumstances comprehend what a conflict will convey out. it really is why that is continuously extra efficient to target to dodge one. As to who might want to win between China and the U.S., maximum in all probability the U.S. regardless of if the inhabitants of China is about 4.3 circumstances that of the U.S., there are dissimilar extra aspects to judge than mere inhabitants length. remember... China develop right into a lot higher than Japan contained in the early twentieth century yet yet Japan made China its doormat from about 1895 until eventually 1945. for sure, that develop into then.. it really is now. yet, most of the same aspects nonetheless observe and high quality counts for lots as against volume.

Answer 6

THe US has the best miltary in the world. If it were a traditional war and not fighting in a guerilla war we would roll them over. We are the only military that can launch a bomb from the US and hit practically everywhere in the world. China doesn't have anything that could even reach hawai'i.

Answer 7

Got to hate this answer, but neither would really win as much as both would lose. This is no new realization, but it applys. If we killed a million chinese (about 20 times the american dead in the decade long vietnam war) every week, we'd still be killing chinese 30 years from now.

Answer 8

China. Definately.

If you think about it, how overpopulated is China? Yeah, insanely overpopulated. What has China's type of government been? Yep, dictatorship. Who's to say the dictator wouldn't just enlist everyone in the military?

Answer 9

US with its technology.
China with its roaring manpower.

I think it would be tough. But China will win though.

Answer 10

I think China--manpower, plus we gave them our factories--same reason the North won the US Civil War.