The Chinese need a massive military to not only expand in Asia to make room for the burgeoning population but at some point they will have to occupy the western hemisphere as well. Their population is not shrinking as some would have you believe. The one child policy is a farce. In 1980 it’s population was a measly 800 million while today it is almost double at at aprox. 1.5 billion. At that rate of expansion it has no other choice but to move outward. Nobody talks about that issue but we have been responsible for giving them the industrial capacity for engaging in world conquest. In the meantime we are dismantling our industrial capacity so that we can live like we used to in the 19thj century to “save the environment”. Europeans (ie white people) as a race will extinct by the end of the century. We may be willing to “share” the planet, but that is not in anybody else’s plans. I wish we would wake up, but unfortunately the public indoctrination system has most of us drunk on the wine called Utopia sold at the river Denial.
They learned the lesson of WWII: He who has the production capacity and the political will wins. They have both, we no longer have either.
The Chinese military has been steadily shrinking in size for some time now; what has happened is their equipment has become much more modern.