Who knows what shape China’s military is in? They do have the manpower advantage. Would they launch nukes at each other?
“Who knows what shape China’s military is in? They do have the manpower advantage. Would they launch nukes at each other?”
Russia and China had a border war in the 1960’s and managed not to exchange nukes. Today if China moves to retake Siberia Russia might not be so inclined to fight too hard to keep it.
Also, the state of Russia’s nuclear forces is in serious doubt right now while China has invested heavily in maintaining their nuclear forces.
Nukes more or less have a shelf life of five to ten years and then they have to be replaced. Russia’s Mayak facility that does this work suffered a catastrophic disaster in 2017 and has been inactive ever since. Mathematically speaking, unless the Russians stand up a new facility they’ll effectively no longer be a nuclear power in five years.
china couldn’t even out right win the india border skirmish just awhile ago.