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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
plus, us >>> china, by far, militarily. and if NK acted out and made the first act of aggression, say against SK, china probably wouldn't even back them because the US and china have a mutual disinterest in going head to head in an actual war. doing so would be too detrimental for the economies of both countries, especially china.
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Exactly. China's economy is massively dependent on US sales. War with the US means that China's economy would probably completely collapse in on itself. It wouldn't take long before the Chinese gov't wouldn't have money to pay their soldiers - and soldiers get pissed when they don't get paid. Meanwhile on the US side, sure, we'd suffer quite a set back as a bunch of our consumer products would suddenly be unavailable. That doesn't mean, however, that we couldn't produce the same things.
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