[wildbill]

The total deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are probably less than the average daily BIRTH rate in China.

The traditional strategy for China over the millenia has been the 'pillow'. Invaders strike into the interior and become surrounded by the pillow effect of the huge population.

Mao and his collegues used to boast they were capable of surviving a nuclear exchange that would kill hundreds of millions because their populatiion could withstand those losses and their undeveloped infrastructure was not as dependent on maintaining their infrastructure and technology as the West. Not much has changed.

[JasonC]

Horsefeathers. China is one of the most conquered countries on the planet, and has a tradition of military victory that consists in absolutely nothing. They've occasionally managed draws. They've never won anything.

[JasonC]

If it were not for American arms, the Chinese would still be cowering in front of Japanese overlords kissing their shoes saying yes master and hoping they would not chop of their heads.