(January 9, 2024 at 10:15 pm)Aegon Wrote: In 2019, the total labor force in China was approximately 800 million people... so 200 million would be approximately 25% of the labor force. For comparison, in the US during WWII, about 20% of the adult male population served
So do you think they'd like to kill 25% of their economy to march to Israel, just 'cause?
I don't. They don't give two shits rubbed together about Israel compared to Taiwan. "Hey, let's sandbag our economy so we might march through Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, because ... wait for it .. the Bible"?
Yeah, I don't think so. They aren't stupid.
As for US mobilization of both economy and military, in 1941 we had an enormous untapped labor pool: women. Do you think that obtains in modern China? And remember, we only mobilized 12 millions for WWII. That's a little shy of, you know, 200 millions, so equipping, feeding, and fueling them is, let us say, a tad easier.
Your percentage argument doesn't hold water. Those 200 million marching to Israel need beans and bullets ... if China wanted to do that, which they don't.
Absurd.