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Isn't 6 to 12 months that ages in wartime ?

• gruez 5y ago
  Presumably china's not randomly declaring war? They could start building it once tensions rise.
• ashtonkem 5y ago
  The presumption is that they’d begin building them once they decide that America won’t guarantee their safety, not once China declares war.
  • PicassoCTs 5y ago
    China had a one child policy. It cant declare war. Everyone of those soldiers has two generations of parent pensioners depending on it. China is not trying to emulate the us and thus - disregarding the propaganda, not gearing up for war.
    • ashtonkem 5y ago
      > It cant declare war. History tells us that countries can and do declare war when it would be illogical for them to do so. There was a running theory before WW1 that the economic interconnection of Europe made war impossible, which was obviously false. Does this mean China is gearing up for war? No. But to declare that China can’t declare war is fairly ahistorical. > China is not trying to emulate the us … disregarding the propaganda Ironically, I’d argue that this is propaganda. “We’re not like that other power, we’re so much better” is pretty classic stuff. Although I’d argue that China isn’t emulating America, I’d argue that China is emulating 19th century Britain with its debt diplomacy.