The PLAN will be panned -- to the bottom. The PLAAF will be poofed -- out of the skies. And the PLA can only watch helplessly.
if in such a unlikely moment,
the PLA wouldn't care. They are not suppose to protect the PLA, PLAAF, rather their job is to China. The PLAN PLAAF are there only to support the PLA.
That being said. There is nothing the PLA can not do on its own. Cross a river or mountain and fight the US Army in China.
Everything about the PLA is defence.
Take for instance the QBZ-95. Looks advanced but look closer and you'll realize that this is a simple, cost effective rifle (or at least use to be). A rifles a rifle, but this is a bull pup. Not because the PLA life timers wanted that, but because their top brass, conculded what the Korean military did.
The bullpup can be used by a conscript with relative ease, and little training, while maintaining a great first shot. (there are only a few ways to hold this rifle wrong)
It has shortcomings like the fire selecter being located at a real annoying area of the butt, but that aside, the first shot is a gem and its light weight.
a perfect rifle for the odd millions of conscripts of the PLA.
The full timers ofcourse would want the best. The QBZ-95 only with a pigmy rail has caught their attention.
Ofcourse this doesn't mean they will get it.
Rather I have seen pictures of another prototype.
I can't find a picture, but it was a further development of the ak in a way. Sharing its advantages, and few of its weaknesses. a rifle for the battlefield. no bling bling just function. I can forsee the PLA trying to replace somethine like the QBZ-95 with something more battlefield. THe bullpup while a great design just doesn't feel like a rifle you want when everything is hell. The conventional design like fin fal or ak just works in trench.
all that aside, the QBZ-95 was a rifle to make the conscripts effective, rather than have them go full auto with a AK-47 from the waist.
Ill leave it to you to wonder what the Korean military and PLA were thinking about when they set the standards for these rifles.
In the end the PLA will still have China, the US may declare victory but they are not going into China. So the PLA by no means failed.
Rather they did at first fail to prevent a war.