The sky is blue.
Water is clear.
The sun is bright.
I can beat up a lion.
Lets just state the obvious, act all serious and call ourselves think tank and milk the government for lots of money!
Of course there are holes in the current Chinese military set up. Just look at the photos of the the recent winter exercises and see the old as hell tanks. Look at some of the gloves the soldiers wear. There isnt enough money to compete with the Americans, only enough to deter them from interfering with Chinese interests in China.
China is undergoing a 'transformation', the changes taking place are piecemeal and incremental. There are massive problems but relative to a few decades back, things look much better. Remember in 1996 an American aircraft carrier pretty much pulled right up between Taiwan and the mainland. Would they pull something like that now?
Times have changed and that is enough. Give another few decades and when Chinese GDP overtakes that of the Americans, maybe then they can be dislodged from East Asia. Circa 2049, 100 years after the founding of the PRC.
I will be an old bastard by then and probably lying in a hospital bed. But smiling like a proud ape.
