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Originally Posted by Hebdomad
It's not like they will be a benign superpower (if there is such a thing). During Mao's reign, when they were still an undeveloped nation, they invaded Tibet and then went for India - where they found they could go no further.
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This is a huge assumption to make with only the support of events from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Originally Posted by demiGOD
On a more serious note, currently China has the biggest Army and Air Force in the world. Its Navy is quickly passing Japanese and American Naval technologies and the rest of its armed forces are becoming technologically at par with the US and the world.
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I'm not an expert on military matter but this is absolute rubbish. China has no real blue water navy so how can you can say that they're quickly passing American naval technologies ? China has been thinking over developing a blue water navy (there was an article about just that subject The Economist a few weeks ago) in order to protect their trade routes and project power in the region but they're a long way from starting to build the ships (especially the carriers, although people have been speculating that they're getting ready to build one) let alone use them effectively.
In terms of air force it may be big but it's mostly full of older planes which couldn't even come close to touching the newest generation of American planes. The J10 which they disclosed details of last month is comparable to an F16 Fighting Falcon (1978) or MiG29 (1983) hardly on par with an F22 or F35 are they ? I'm not saying that China isn't upgrading its military or that they're not trying to develop a blue water fleet but to say that currently they're it's anywhere near the level of the US or even of the UK or France in terms of technology is pretty
