I don’t suppose there is any way to determine how much progress they have made in developing EMP or in developing a nuclear arsenal that is the same size as ours or larger. As recently has 5 years ago, I had thought for sure we had by far the largest nuclear arsenal ever, but now our administrations have put ours in the decline and the Chinese are likely working overtime to build it up. I read a report once of some loony “scientist” who honestly wanted us to cut our arsenal down to like 15 nukes or so.
The one saving grace is that even if we are back to the Cold War times, at least the Chinese govt has the sense not to try and create a situation where their whole nation goes up in nuclear smoke, like the Soviets and much unlike the Irani Ayatollahs. Even with our reduced arsenal now I imagine they would not be that likely to risk something like that, though of course North Korea makes for a great proxy. Hopefully we can get a Congress in the nearest elections that will start bringing the nukes back up.
The one saving grace is that even if we are back to the Cold War times, at least the Chinese govt has the sense not to try and create a situation where their whole nation goes up in nuclear smoke, like the Soviets and much unlike the Irani Ayatollahs. Even with our reduced arsenal now I imagine they would not be that likely to risk something like that, though of course North Korea makes for a great proxy. Hopefully we can get a Congress in the nearest elections that will start bringing the nukes back up.
The Chinese do not have to possess these capabilities. Russia has them, and if Russia and China acts in concert against us, we are screwed.