Nobody is shooting at each other, and never will as long as our leaders have half a brain

can you imagine the storm that would occur if we won as big in 2018 as we did in 2016? flipping "secured" democrat seats, ginsburg dying, giving us a third judge on the bench? if they keep this insanity up, or intensify it as they keep doing, then we might get 20 senate seats in the fall, not 10

you should read a book called 'war without bounds'

actually the english name is 'unrestricted warfare'

china performing all strategies in that book today, and the bok was written in 1999 i believe

Economic competition. Not war.

disagree.

Aside from their inferior navy, nothing would stop them from fighting a real war, and winning it

lots of economic/industrial espionage conducted by PRC

LOTS

Yes, that is economic competition

like most chinese intelligence operations target scientific research or corporations in the defense industry with the intent of putting them ahead in the competition

Walmart and Target do the same thing

As do most governments

it isnt economic competition imo. hold on.

Sure that's a watered down term but war is too extreme

The only thing the PLA lacks is naval power projection because they only have one active carrier. Two more in production

Having been in the US Army myself anyone who thinks that PLA soldiers could not take us needs to go to rehab

Naturally I want us to be the best in the world but the reality is that man for man we are not

Doesn't the Chinese military have more troops than us?

Yes

We have the advantage of technology and combat experience.

But that isn't enough of a force multiplier for an adversary that is 10x larger than you

yeah lol

Nowadays with so many people getting out, we don't have the edge in experience anymore

Meanwhile the PLA is deployed to Africa and fighting a Muslim insurgency in Xinjiang

They have had problems in xinjiang for over a decade now. An actual domestic terrorism problem

Army vs Army they are only about 60% larger than us

Yeah

And they've taken the gloves off

Much to the dismay of the UN and Amnesty International

Amnesty Intl is trash very biased against Western country

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/23/china-used-flamethrowers-on-uighur-terror-suspects-blamed-for-coal-mine-attack.html

AI is biased against anyone

They bitch about west, east, everything

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inmates-of-chinas-muslim-re-education-camps-tell-of-brainwashing-torture/2018/05/16/32b330e8-5850-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html

Those aren't PLA actually, it's the People's Armed Police which is like border patrol, customs, riot police, antiterrorist police, and the fire department

They are called that because until recently the regular police were not armed

irony

Yeah I was shocked when I found out they didn't carry guns

They do after Kunming though. Traffic cops are still unarmed, one got killed this year in Chongqing, a really great guy