“And if they do threaten war, they don’t have the logistics capability to do anything outside their own borders.”
Probably so, but they do have nuclear weapons. Besides, we’d have one hellofa time stopping a billion Chinese from doing anything. What could the western States muster, 100 millon, maybe?
My view is that China has zero interest in war. Some old guards do, but the country is run by many who could care less about war. They want commerce. They didn’t go to college to fight a war.
However many of them there are is meaningless.
They can’t do anything with them. Period.
As to nukes, yeah. They have them. So do we. So again, meaningless threat.
China is a castrato with no arms or legs in terms of deployable military.