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Horrifying thought for the day. China is caught in a demographic nightmare. With 1.3 billion people, more and more their domestic policy is turning to "lebensraum".

At first, this means overwhelming their Uighar and Tibetan minorities with Han Chinese; building new, Han-only cities next to the ancient native cities, then diverting all resources to the new cities. But even that is not enough, and not fast enough.

So now they are starting to eye unoccupied lands in adjacent nations, even going so far as to lay railroad tracks into the wilderness.

Not too long ago, however, it was noted that they have built a scale model terrain map of their disputed border with India, and here is where the real potential for horror begins. Because India, likewise, is becoming increasingly overburdened with people.

Most specifically, men. Because of their mutual prejudice against daughters, millions of whom have been aborted or killed, both China and India have imbalanced demographics.

As many as 30 to 50 million men, or more, are growing up with no chance to have a job or a wife. They are generally uneducated, and a great burden on their respective societies. A dangerous one.

There is a distinct possibility that China and India could have a war, solely to 'cull' their extra males. A "demographic war". No matter the official casus belli, the real reason would be to mutually exterminate millions of extra men.

Such a war would be in a desolate, isolated place. A giant "no-man's land" between the two countries. Millions of conscripts would fight with small arms supported by massed artillery fires. Each sides' regular armies would stay in the rear as a second eschelon never committed, as endless replacements are sent to the front.

Massacres not seen since the trench warfare of World War I. An intentional stalemate devoid of tactics save to charge the enemy machine guns and to fire endless barrages of high explosive artillery--the deadliest weapon on the battlefield.

Both nations are already aware of this as a possibility, but so far, each has only considered a modern sophisticated war between technological, professional armies, not a "peasant war" of attrition.