Akasa
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You wish for a war with your neighbours, just to prove a point to USA and the west?
Who do you think the joke will be on, irrespective of the outcome? Say a Chinese victory, but a few chinese cities destroyed, hundreds of thousands killed and maimed, your economy taking a hit, cities and villages burning, all of which westerners will watch from their couch at home on CNN - and you think that's how to show them?
The best thing for China to do is what it is doing now - keep growing economically, improve living standards, improve the military. Hope for no wars. I really think this China threat is overrated - China has not shown any hegemonic ambitions or desire to conquer other countries, other than a few border disputes with neighbours. The only case in which a conflict can happen is if a very belligerent leadership rises to power in future.
Which is why India for example, while trying to have enough military power to defend against China in future, is mostly only worried about the threat from the other side. We know which are the unreasonable countries.
Wars in their technical sense provide a military with invaluable evaluation of their doctrine and also gives real combat data for their equipment, both of which are essential to success.