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Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
china will maul anybody. YOu can wiupe out 300 million, 400 million even half a billion of them and they can still swarm over alll of america and europe combined.l,. They are numberless.
You have a point there. Oddly, China just recently started putting Aircraft carriers in the water. They are definitely ramping up their military but I don't know if they can yet be classified as a global superpower. I think they are a regional power with global implications. This will not always be the case.
China definitely is a superpower.

If there ever was a non-nuclear war, they'd be unbeatable because of their manufacturing capability.

It was the American manufacturing capability that won World War II. The Soviets were losing to the Germans until the Americans sent them massive amounts of weapons. The Japanese got off to a good start in 1941-42, but eventually they were overwhelmed by the enormous number of American battleships, tanks, planes, etc produced by the US economy.

Man for man, the Japanese were actually braver and better troops than the Americans. Over 95% of the Japanese soldiers fought to the death, refusing to surrender in situations where they were badly outnumbered and out-gunned, like in the Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Peleliu.

In April to June 1945, even though the Japanese had practically no navy left, their determination caused the greatest American losses of the war in the Battle of Okinawa (over 82,000 US casualties on land and sea, 768 U.S. planes, at least 225 tanks, and 368 Allied ships, primarily from kamikaze attacks).