In warfighting capabilities, reach, combat readiness, effectiveness, troops who want to be there (volunteer force), and have way more experience than China could hope to have. Militarily, China isn’t ready to take on a peer and it’s laughably pathetic they think they can.

You talking about tear gas/ pepper spray, you know less lethals? Dude, I had to breathe that shit in during boot camp for the navy. It ain’t that bad. How ICE is using it (and ICE as a whole) I have problems with. Escalating on civilians, shooting them in the head with pepper balls. It’s fucked up. Kidnapping of people, no due process, I absolutely agree it’s terrible. Look, internally with our issues it’s bad, I don’t like it, and it needs to change.

Compared to China, we are still better: We don’t have a culture of cheating (The another child saying in China. Parents making up a fake kid that’s succeeding to make their child succeed at all costs, including being a pathetic cheater), which they do, and for them to think it’s okay and a sense of strength (like the piss poor ‘saving face’ bullshit) is delusional and shameful. If they have to cheat, they will never be better than their competition, because their competition has skills where they don’t.

Doesn’t China have: Social credit and massive surveillance to hold down their people? Round up the uyghers on trains, forcing them into a concentrated area? Aiding Russia in their war, only to waste time because Russia won’t win? Massacred civilians in Tiananmen Square, where it was filmed, and DENIED it despite the clear cut case? (Again, that weak saving face shit). And that’s just scratching the surface.

China is militarily a regional power that thinks they stand a chance in a fight, when anyone that follows the history of war knows other than numbers (and nukes they won’t use because they’d cease to exist) they are a shit military confined to south east asia because they don’t have the force capability to project further.