The Chinese and Russians have the severe disadvantage of being “war-less” for too long. All that pretty shiny stuff is great unless it doesn’t survive combat.
People have been dismantling Soviet hardware for a long time in different places. The Chinese don’t even know if they can get their military to battle because they haven’t done it since they fought Vietnam in the late 70’s(except for the India dustup).
Besides that do the Chinese really want to die for the glory of the Party or open up Mercedes-Benz dealerships and get rich?
I wish we could say we haven’t benn in a war for forty years.
Can you imagine the cool stuff we would have? And the generations of good people.
You introduced the war less Russians........
Given the topic of what was learned by study of Gulf War, have the Chinese learned they are not the equal of the Russians in training and weapons?
I think war between china and Russia is more likely than either with the USA