some stats of the Chinese military

[pres2032]

here's what we'd face if we went to war with them:

There are currently 2.5 million soldiers with 1.8 in the PLA. The military is divided up into 7 regions and 27 districts. There are 21 Group Armies in each district and each army includes 60,000 personnel, 44 infantry divisions, 13 infantry brigades, 10 armored divisions, 12 armored brigades, 5 artillery divisions, 20 artillery brigades, and 7 helicopter regiments. There are also 5 infantry divisions, 2 infantry brigades, 1 armored brigade, 1 artillery division, 3 artillery brigades, and 3 anti-aircraft brigades which are independent from any of the Group Armies. In addition, there are three airborne divisions.
Plus various paramilitary units, a large airforce, and the nukes...

[Maple]

1. Much better to

trade with them, than fight.

[4morewars]

2. Where do you think they got the money....

to build this army ?

[pres2032]

5. Deng's economic reforms have done wonders

[oneold1-4u]

3. We are safe--

as long as we keep wally world in business!

[vpigrad]

8. True

> as long as we keep wally world in business!

The flip side of that is if we ever put Wally World out of business, we'll have a billion pissed-off, out of work people from China to deal with.

[WMliberal]

4. uh.... okay

what was the point?

[pres2032]

6. i'm current;y doing a paper on it

and it also came up in another conversation i was having here

[WMliberal]

7. o

Okay.