Who would win in a war.   China or USA?
482133
China..War isn't just who'se got more tanks and more missiles.\nThe chinease people are more cultured and better educated and the average chinease citizen knows far more about the outside world than the average American, they are not apt ot belive in such fairy tales like those that fill the amrican media about other nations and therefore they are less apt to getshoked when facing the real world in a real world.\nBesides, the educational system in china is better, and is not weakened by a weird control of regressive religious thought as the case with america andtherefore the chinease aremore innovative and can produce better research, which helps in modernizing weapons.\nThe chinease production is the highest in the world(500 major industrial cities!)and their rate of development is staggering(from 10-16% yearly!) They can afford a long war(and it has to be loong causeyou just can`t destroy the whole of china by a sudden nuclear strike, not unless you wish to commit suicide!)\nIn short China have wisdom, innovation and culture + a very modern army+ 1.3 billion citizens, most of them youth who are able to serve and ell trained for fighting.\nLets hope such war will never happen.\n\nAnd again it isn`t amatter of who spends more. USA is having a major problem in Iraq despite being a million times richer! And USA will not dare attack Iran despite having a far superior army, war isnt that simple, it isn`t a fight in a bar:)
304487
China is a threat but by far not the real threat. Its nation has survived for thousands of years. These people are not stupid; Eastern military thought is superior to that of the West, even if their military technology is not as advanced as the West's. The Chinese follows the wisdom of Sun Tzu's Art of War; the most important teaching it has is: "To win a thousand victories is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."\n\nIndeed the US is in debt, just like -every- other country in the world. China would not have to even invade and occupy the US; why would it want that responsibility? It already has 2 billion people to worry about. To become the global hegemone, they only need to sit back and watch the United States throw away its people and its money in its foolish exploits around the world (ie, Iraq?). We are weakening ourselves tremendously in all areas. We are alienating our "allies." We are expending our treasury. We are dulling our weapons of war.\n\nHowever, we must also look at a greater threat to every country in the world. Globalization is demolishing national identities and borders. Multinational Corporations, which have no loyalty to their home countries nor the host countries, are able to manipulate governments to do their bidding. The scariest part is that there is no morality and little accountability; the bottom line of capitalism is making profits at any cost. There is no built in morality within capitalism, rather it relies whatever morality a capitalist has beforehand. Other non-state actors also can threaten the United States of America, such as gangs, drug cartels, mafias, etc. MS-13 is the most dangerous gangs in the US, and it is destroying us from the inside.\n\nIf we faced China, it would be easier to know who the enemy is and how to fight them. But as we can see in the past few years, it is the more shadowy enemy that we cannot fight or defeat. Al Qaeda is a perfect example of this. It has been years, but we still have not been able to destroy this organization. States seem to be helpless when it comes to fighting non-state actors, but it is no surprise. Non-state actors have to deal with less bureaucracy, don't have many worries that state actors have. As a result, they are flexible, fast, invisible, all over the place, and deadly (thanks to technology like internet, explosives, WMDs, etc).\n\nBut it is not surprising. Before 1648, there was no modern state. There were only non-state actors. And now they will rise again, over the ashes of the states. It sounds apocolyptic, but we only need to see recent events to see that states have a very difficult time fighting them.
932390
Actually, according to a Pentagon war study group back in the late 90's, Israel would win. It comes back to fighting on home turf, as well as Israel knows the US's war plans, so Israel would be able alter the war strategy accordingly, thus keeping one step ahead of US forces.\n\nUnless, of course, you are talking about going nuclear, in which case, the US would win hands down.
985264
china... US... 2090ish.... \n\nnot sure on the winner.. depends on what happens between now and then... \n\nat the moment, U.S. is a two point favorite... the way I see it....\n\nthere is almost no chance that either\n\nA. the U.S. will completely fall out of the world view in 5 or so years\n\nB. that Russia will become that large of a player in 5 or so years... \n\nmaybe 30-50... not 5... unless there is some sort of huge depression... or nuclear incident... which would be WWIII anyway most likely...
380347
U.S. cannot go to war with China because they know there is no chance of being successful against China... Half of their army is still in Afghanistan and Iraq... Also if U.S. attacks China, other countries such as Russia, North Korea, and Iran will make an alliance with China = World War III.  \n\nChina is not looking towards war at the moment because they are trying to establish their economy.  Maybe in ten to fifteen years China will become the next super power because it's the only country in the world that is becoming rich all other countries are getting poor (including U.S. as they are spending a lot on their defence plan.)
1179725
China is the second most powerful country they out number us.  Only advantage we have is our technology and wepons are more advance because we spend more money on this.
765901
USA = insecure = hegemony or survival = war
1140062
Most definitely yes.\nChina is a very Old and disciplined country that has survived\nfor so many years. thus their huge population.\nThey have the technology and resources to control the world economically. It will be through economic rule that China will be able to dominate the world.\nand if called on the China army is well equipped to defend itself.
1076474
well it is china (even japan said the US will lose if we figth china)\nwell it will just make more war but the real reason is that there is no point in putting money in a country when you can not take something back (ie iraq = oil)
951927
Yes, even with all of the soldiers deployed to other hot spots, we have plenty of troops here in the US that would be able to effectively defend this country against almost any invading force.  I say almost because if China ever decided to invade, we'd be screwed.
433595
USA is having hte maximum access to the energy. Next one is CHINA
149682
China will be the most powerful country and United States will obey China's politics. . .
199132
Attacked and invaded China to get the resources they needed for world domination.  \n\nThen attacked the US at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.\n\nThen they lost the war they started.
394389
I think our relationship with China is on even keel....but bordering on adversarial unfortunately.\n\nTheir military build up is on going and for what?  Who are they getting ready to fight?  Probably no one....but we are in debt to the Chinese in the billions of dollars.  Eventually we will have to concede that they are on our tier of dominance.\n\nI agree with a previous poster's analysis in that they will be the superpower on one....it may not be real soon, but it will be one day.\n\nThis is the thing.  Small thing.  All they have do is....drumroll please.........convert to some form of democracy.  That's all.  Nothing major.  They can do that in a few weeks.  \n\nSeriously.....Communism does not work.  And look at what America is trying to do.  Bush was over there wanting China is ease up on religious tolerance....along with a few other things.  But see....we don't really want them to have a democratic system....we want them to have widespread, capitalistic tendency.....democracy-styled freedoms.  There is a massive difference.\n\nWe don't want a mega copy of us.....we are Miller, or Budweiser.  We want them to be Zima.
657964
its possible but china is threatning to side with iran if we do, and american does not want to go to war with china
969207
The US. Japan's army is small and not able to beat us.  There is a treaty with Japan that they will never wage war against us again FYI.
461538
I think the bigger question is will China go to war with Taiwan; Will China Invade Taiwan. In this modern age, it is highly unlikely that the situation will arise given the vast information that can spread in a heartbeat around the world about an action. The US and USSR were in a cold war for decades without committing a first strike, and the result ended peacably. The Republic of China and the Peoples Republic have been at a similar standoff for a similar number of years, and no action will happen that would mar China's building honor in the world spotlight. At most, the mainland will keep rattling its saber to keep the island on its toes, but nothing damaging will happen.\n\nAnd lets try and keep the slanderous remarks down to a minimal ok?