5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident

[Ace Otana]

That video lies about how many women are actually in the Chinese women's army. The figure it quotes is closer to the amount of people fit for military service, it's not as if they actually have a professional active women's army of close to 300 milllion. But it does make a point about the sheer number of Chinese people that could in theory be part of an army.

However, if we did see a conflict between the states and china (highly unlikely, but still,) my money would be on the U.S. for the sheer amount they spend on military tech means they have a far superiorly equipped armed forces with vast amounts of experience and know how and would be able to call on support from more countries than China. Fortunately, for all it's faults as you say, M.A.D keeps us all safe despite also having the slight worry of also being able to destroy us all.

True, it wasn't entirely accurate but does make a point. I'm pretty sure China has far more than 400 million soldiers anyway. I'm unsure about the female population in China's army but it is quite high. I think China's population sits at 1.3 billion. They vastly out number the US and are armed to the teeth.
My money wouldn't really go to either US or China. Both are very large and powerful giants. There would be an epic blood bath on both sides. The US would take an unimaginable amount of casualties as well as China would. I don't think it would be a question on who wins, but who's left? The US is far from invincible. No matter how much money goes into defence. My money might go on China, it is a very very big and very powerful nation. If you take away the nukes, your talking about going up against at least 400 million Chinese soldiers, maybe 500 million. Can't see how you can win (let alone survive) against such an epic force.

If the US had a show down with China, I think this would be the end result for the US -


Thought I'd add this - http://www.abytheliberal.com/world-polit...inst-china
It's a good read.