The pre-WWI German analogy is emphasized by this vid. Frenemy in Russia looming large along two sides. Overtly hostile land powers to the south and a bottled up body of water to the east. Complete encirlment, response? Build High Seas Fleet to challenge Grand Fleets the U.S. can bring to bear.
Long suspected Japanese nukes become irrelevant in an invasion. Hideki needs to merely breach a reactor core to cook a celestial army. South Korean forces are much higher quality. Chinese moslems and the Tibetans both want Holy War. India wants its claimed land that China holds, China wants the same from them. Vietnam would love to humiliate China again.
China has as many buddies as Eichmann in Israel.
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