The PLAN could build 500 ships in 2 years and overwhelm the near Pacific and those islands. The Japs would lose a war of attrition.
> The PLAN could build 500 ships in 2 years and overwhelm the near Pacific and those islands. The Japs would lose a war of attrition. <
Stalin famously said that quantity has a quality all its own. That’s something first-world countries seem to have forgotten.
As an example, during WW II the Germans produced around 6,000 excellent Panther tanks. The Soviets produced around 65,000 very good T-34 tanks.
China would still lose. Attacks from China/Mongolia ended up badly in the past,
Example from a national geographic article: "In the 13th century, Genghis Khan's grandson Kublai Khan had already conquered much of China and hoped to expand his Mongolian empire. To attack Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main Japanese islands, he amassed an enormous fleet of Chinese and Korean ships. It was one of the largest armadas the world has ever seen, with more than 140,000 sailors.
Yet twice, in 1274 and 1281, Kublai sent his overwhelming forces across the Korea Strait, and twice his fleet was destroyed."
Japan and China have been feuding for millennia, and China has failed to successfully invade Japan. In this modern era, Japan is more than capable of repelling China.