>>509352378Number of boats, number of people in the fucking boats, and naturally the drone tech is more than a bit of a nuisance.
In fact, if you want a point of comparison, the population disparity is about the same as the one between Russia and Ukraine. Not only that, but it's almost as if China's government intentionally bred a generation of young, wifeless men who are frustrated and looking for some enemy to blame via the one child policy.
I don't think they're even entertaining the thought of an all-out conflict with us right now, or else they would have ramped up their nuclear arsenal as well, but the problem with China is that they think of things in centuries, while we think of things in election terms. A few decades ago they started laying the groundwork for this, and there's a very real threat to Japan, New Zealand, and if they're especially ballsy, Australia.