Their biggest military asset is cannon fodder.
How many young men do they have that will never get married? They have to give them something to do...(cold showers?)
In a war of attrition china has the upper hand. I could be wrong on that, but, I don't think so.
>>How many young men do they have that will never get married? They have to give them something to do...(cold showers?)
As weird as this sounds, I'm hoping for low-cost sex robots and teledildonics to solve that problem. It's not as far-fetched as it sounds.
It's the only possible reasonable way I can see for that problem to get resolved. It's that, mass homosexuality, or mass foreign conquest of the kind not seen since the Mongols came out of Central Asia.