Ok one time in 46 yrs. Still not their MO. I just dont see it. They arent just gonna kill off the people they need working. Makes no sense whatsoever. They have dreams of being THE global economic powerhouse. A war will kill those goals overnight
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There were other famous battles they had back then on their Russian border.
Recent years, it's clashes on their Indian border in Himalayas - so far just contact brawling, but with deaths.
Now they have a modern navy and air force. They do invasion related exercises near Taiwan routinely.
We encounter mainlanders daily all over Asia and Oceania. It's a different way of thinking - goal and expediency driven exclusively, with morality intentionally driven out.
I still do not see China attacking the US unless provoked and left with no other option. There is litetally nothing they have ever done to even almost hint that they would.
That's routinely done by US navy ships sailing through Taiwan Strait, which Chinese consider their interior waterway.
It's as if Chinese navy were sailing about the Great Lakes.
Seems unlikely they would attack US territory for that, but those ships, they certainly eventually will, when they think they can "win", which is imminent.