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China declares war on the US. What happens next?
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Read or listen to the world's best nonfiction books in a matter of minutes and become a smarter you. The Americans go to Defcon 4, or whatever the equivalent is nowadays. The American navy takes up a defensive stance as far as they can from Chinese airbases without abandoning any contested or populated friendly territory to Chinese air strikes. Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia also go on high alert, but do not commit themselves to any action.
If no nuclear weapons have been launched in the first hour, diplomats in the United States, at the United Nations, and in every national capital on the planet with any independent influence begin communicating frantically to organize a ceasefire. The United States air and naval force in East Asia maintain a strictly defensive stance, hoping to avoid any violent action that might escalate the crisis. Civilian aircraft and ships in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Ohotsk, and the Philippine Sea flees for safer waters.
As soon as word gets out to the financial markets that are currently open, the Chinese yen crashes and will likely drop half its value or more by the end of the trading day.
Everything else depends on how serious the Chinese are about fighting someone. z
If they launch nuclear weapons, at isolated American military targets, the Americans will try to retaliate in like fashion. If they strike at civilian targets, the Americans will try to respond in proportion. If they escalate and make multiple nuclear attacks, the Americans will respond in kind and tens of millions of people will die over the course of the next few days. If the Chinese launch multiple warheads at the United States, a billion people will die, and it is possible that enough weapons will be launched to trigger a world wide nuclear catastrophe.
If China launches conventional attacks, the East Asian nations, Australia, and the United States will coordinate their conventional forces to contain the battle. Taiwan is the most likely target, and China’s greatest chance for a successful end to the war is the Taiwanese air force and army not being able to contain a massive Chinese air and amphibious assault while the American navy stays clear of the Chinese coast to avoid escalating the conflict.
If North Korean joins the conflict devastating warfare will erupt along the DMZ that the South Koreans, Japanese, and Americans should be able to contain with a week or two of brutal fighting and massive air strikes. If China attempts to send ground forces into the peninsula, United Nations strikes at the North Korean transport net will bring about a stalemate. Otherwise, relentless pressure from the infuriated South Koreans, reinforced by a limited number of American regular infantry divisions, will drive the North Korean armies slowly north.
American naval and air power will be focused on screening the Philippines, Okinawa, and its supply links to Japan and Korea. American ground forces will be sent in limited numbers to those nations to show solidarity. Japan and South Korea are fully capable of defending their air space against China, but the Americans will quietly reinforce them as needed. The priority, at all times, will be to avoid combat between American and Chinese forces.
China has no naval options as long the Chinese air force cannot engage the American air force close to its own bases and SAM defenses. Indonesia will probably be left along. as the Chinese have to sail or fly past the Philippines to strike at them, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore will stay out of the war if China lets them, but will stay linked to the American to keep their air defense nets tight.
If China launches a ground assault against Vietnam to settle that grudge, the Vietnamese will contain it themselves, with supplies flowing in from friendly powers through their Southern ports and airfields. This war would be an upgrade from the last war the two nations fought thirty sum years ago. The Vietnamese held China that time and they expect to do it again the next time.
The war is unlikely to last more than a few weeks, even if it does not go nuclear. Chinese industry is export-dependent, so Chinese factories will begin shutting down on the first day of the war and the economy as a whole will be sagging visibly every day thereafter. The Americans will continue to trade with every nation in the world that is not in the combat zone and the dollar will stabilize at a lower level relative to the Euro than at any point in the last twenty years. The Yen will collapse to the point of money markets only trading in it out of courtesy.
Meanwhile, as I noted, diplomats everywhere will be applying any pressure or persuasion they can think of to bring about an end to the conflict. Hopefully within a few weeks to a few months after it started.
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Read or listen to the world's best nonfiction books in a matter of minutes and become a smarter you. The Americans go to Defcon 4, or whatever the equivalent is nowadays. The American navy takes up a defensive stance as far as they can from Chinese airbases without abandoning any contested or populated friendly territory to Chinese air strikes. Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia also go on high alert, but do not commit themselves to any action.
If no nuclear weapons have been launched in the first hour, diplomats in the United States, at the United Nations, and in every national capital on the planet with any independent influence begin communicating frantically to organize a ceasefire. The United States air and naval force in East Asia maintain a strictly defensive stance, hoping to avoid any violent action that might escalate the crisis. Civilian aircraft and ships in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Ohotsk, and the Philippine Sea flees for safer waters.
As soon as word gets out to the financial markets that are currently open, the Chinese yen crashes and will likely drop half its value or more by the end of the trading day.
Everything else depends on how serious the Chinese are about fighting someone. z
If they launch nuclear weapons, at isolated American military targets, the Americans will try to retaliate in like fashion. If they strike at civilian targets, the Americans will try to respond in proportion. If they escalate and make multiple nuclear attacks, the Americans will respond in kind and tens of millions of people will die over the course of the next few days. If the Chinese launch multiple warheads at the United States, a billion people will die, and it is possible that enough weapons will be launched to trigger a world wide nuclear catastrophe.
If China launches conventional attacks, the East Asian nations, Australia, and the United States will coordinate their conventional forces to contain the battle. Taiwan is the most likely target, and China’s greatest chance for a successful end to the war is the Taiwanese air force and army not being able to contain a massive Chinese air and amphibious assault while the American navy stays clear of the Chinese coast to avoid escalating the conflict.
If North Korean joins the conflict devastating warfare will erupt along the DMZ that the South Koreans, Japanese, and Americans should be able to contain with a week or two of brutal fighting and massive air strikes. If China attempts to send ground forces into the peninsula, United Nations strikes at the North Korean transport net will bring about a stalemate. Otherwise, relentless pressure from the infuriated South Koreans, reinforced by a limited number of American regular infantry divisions, will drive the North Korean armies slowly north.
American naval and air power will be focused on screening the Philippines, Okinawa, and its supply links to Japan and Korea. American ground forces will be sent in limited numbers to those nations to show solidarity. Japan and South Korea are fully capable of defending their air space against China, but the Americans will quietly reinforce them as needed. The priority, at all times, will be to avoid combat between American and Chinese forces.
China has no naval options as long the Chinese air force cannot engage the American air force close to its own bases and SAM defenses. Indonesia will probably be left along. as the Chinese have to sail or fly past the Philippines to strike at them, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore will stay out of the war if China lets them, but will stay linked to the American to keep their air defense nets tight.
If China launches a ground assault against Vietnam to settle that grudge, the Vietnamese will contain it themselves, with supplies flowing in from friendly powers through their Southern ports and airfields. This war would be an upgrade from the last war the two nations fought thirty sum years ago. The Vietnamese held China that time and they expect to do it again the next time.
The war is unlikely to last more than a few weeks, even if it does not go nuclear. Chinese industry is export-dependent, so Chinese factories will begin shutting down on the first day of the war and the economy as a whole will be sagging visibly every day thereafter. The Americans will continue to trade with every nation in the world that is not in the combat zone and the dollar will stabilize at a lower level relative to the Euro than at any point in the last twenty years. The Yen will collapse to the point of money markets only trading in it out of courtesy.
Meanwhile, as I noted, diplomats everywhere will be applying any pressure or persuasion they can think of to bring about an end to the conflict. Hopefully within a few weeks to a few months after it started.
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