Why would Britain fight Germany in 1914? It is the whole Anglo-Saxon mindset about picking a fight with the strongest foe and gamble such risk would pay off to perpetuate dominance (hegemony). AND keep in mind that Americans are very ideological and use christianity to justify the necessary sacrifices necessary to maintain hegemony. Losing to Taliban does nothing to weaken US-led order, but losing to China could mean the end of the US a Pacific power. Therefore, for maritime powers, pick the strongest land powers and defeat them with the hope of perpetuating your leadership. Otherwise, once such land power were to become powerful enough to build a navy to erode your dominance it would be too late. It is also why Britain could tolerate rising powers elsewhere (US and Japan), but simply could not afford to have Germany becoming the dominant power in Europe. So yes, from a traditional maritime power's perspective, the US will fight China because it is only nation state with risk of ending US hegemony.
I wouldn't say march, but it is pretty common for all militaries to walk several miles for 2-3 hours wearing heavy gears though. I would be surprised of 国军 soldiers today can't even bear standing under the summer heat for a few hours. It is basic combat tenacity and survival skills. If ordinary civilians can do it, so can soldiers. Trust me, when I started my college military training, it was painful to run three laps around a soccer field. But after the training, I started training for Guangzhou marathon since I realized how physically adaptable human bodies can be. By the way, it was pretty fun to carry the type 81, wear a GK80 helmet, and walk 4-5km in 1980s military gear through the forests of northern Guangdong. We ran into cobra snakes several times and it was funny how students freaked out over them.
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Wow that’s a pretty cool experience bro! Which college did you go to and which military unit did you doing your training at? Sounds like you’re pretty skilled. Also your English is excellent for someone who grew up and went to college in China.
Then it's already too late for them to win without getting crippled, even conventionally. You have to understand that winning isn't enough. They have to win without getting crippled because they need to actually enforce their hegemony.
They can't even deploy their carriers continuously anymore despite having 11 of them. if they lose any ships at all, can they enforce their hegemony anymore? Can they stop Russia from taking Eastern Europe? What about Iran closing the Persian Gulf? How about France leaving NATO? How about keeping Japan down?
If they have all these allies wanting to die for them how come they went from NATO down to G7 down to Quad and now down to AUKUS? Shouldn't their coalition be getting bigger not smaller?
That's just the military aspect.
@FairAndUnbiased bro that is the beauty of the Russian Chinese Understanding, from a low based any increase in military strength from both the US need to match it, then you add in Iran, The US had reach an Imperial overreach just like Rome on its latter part of history. With its vassals needed to be cajoled , the world is looking forward for a multi polar world with US allies among those who support it. The coming Hungarian election is a litmus test, if Orban wins re-election the cascading effect will be huge as it will affect the French election.
I just don't see a Taiwanese resistance being able to operate in a surveillance state
Think every car and smartphone being monitored
Plus CCTV cameras covering all the urban areas
Along with constant airborne drone coverage
It's straightforward to China to do this and then automate the surveillance system
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No. Such a victorious China would set the rules by which the world runs.