China to wage a war with Japan 2013 *special update reuters jan17 20013 article

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oni-link said:

Shruikan said:
Japan and China are not going to go to war with each other. It's all talk.

And people are vastly overestimating China's military capacity. Despite what earlier posts said, neither of these two nations are superpowers militarily. China has immense personnel at its disposal, but is pretty far behind in terms of military technology.

The biggest reason they won't go to war is that it wouldn't be economically viable for either nation to do so.

Sorry don't mean any disrespect but the thinking of China being technologically backward is just typical ignorant western thinking.(which will cost us a lot when we get into conflict with them)  Most of their fighters are modified/improved 4th and 4.5 generation derived flankers/Migs from Russia, capable of BVR weapons,  fire and forget missles (the Japanese F15's have to think about whether they want to lock their target or avoid an incoming rocket that the J11's and J10's are capable of firing and avoiding at the same time), and stealth technology derieved from the F22 through espionage.  They are a dangerous threat!!!

No question, a war involving China would be nasty. But America had decades to accumulate military power, China is far behind in that regard.

Good thing that China doesn't go so easily to war as the US does.