More likely because of the massive loss of life from all the flooding. They are claiming something ridiculous like 40 deaths? Entire cities are flooded.
Two factors at play. One is they have a demographic bomb. Like many western nations they have an inverse pyramid with far too many old people vs young.
Two is that they are planning to go to war on a global scale to replace the US as the global superpower and will need the manpower. They are likely to lose a lot lives initially as they lack the combined arms experience in warfare.
All American combat experience in almost two decades now is in things like dodging IEDs and bombing sand people with no meaningful anti-aircraft weapons.
And then we have a lot of the servicemen with experience opting to get out when their contracts are up because of the new regime and meanwhile the ones with the misfortune to stay in are getting trained in things like how to be antiracist instead of how to be a cohesive, effective fighting unit.
What you miss is that we have troops that have almost all been under fire in deployments and fired back. i.e. the US doesn't have green troops, all that China has is green troops. CCP's combat experience involves rounding up men and women from their homes and sending them to concentration camps. When the CCP decided to fight India in hand to hand combat, 45 CCP fuckwads were thrown off the mountainside to their deaths compared to 20 Indians. When you look at the CCP's equipment, their poor production comes into play for their jet engines and equipment. The only advantage the CCP has is hypersonic missiles they get from Russia and frankly I doubt they can produce the engines for the missiles domestically. China is weak, its why they are mass building nukes now, their conventional military lacks teeth.
More likely because of the massive loss of life from all the flooding. They are claiming something ridiculous like 40 deaths? Entire cities are flooded.
Two factors at play. One is they have a demographic bomb. Like many western nations they have an inverse pyramid with far too many old people vs young.
Two is that they are planning to go to war on a global scale to replace the US as the global superpower and will need the manpower. They are likely to lose a lot lives initially as they lack the combined arms experience in warfare.
All American combat experience in almost two decades now is in things like dodging IEDs and bombing sand people with no meaningful anti-aircraft weapons.
And then we have a lot of the servicemen with experience opting to get out when their contracts are up because of the new regime and meanwhile the ones with the misfortune to stay in are getting trained in things like how to be antiracist instead of how to be a cohesive, effective fighting unit.
Things aren't looking good
edit: Oh, and most men that would otherwise be eligible for service aren't because we're all fat. Things'll be fun (read: they won't) if we go to war.
Skills and lessons learned from the GWOT are very applicable to what's coming in the US.
What you miss is that we have troops that have almost all been under fire in deployments and fired back. i.e. the US doesn't have green troops, all that China has is green troops. CCP's combat experience involves rounding up men and women from their homes and sending them to concentration camps. When the CCP decided to fight India in hand to hand combat, 45 CCP fuckwads were thrown off the mountainside to their deaths compared to 20 Indians. When you look at the CCP's equipment, their poor production comes into play for their jet engines and equipment. The only advantage the CCP has is hypersonic missiles they get from Russia and frankly I doubt they can produce the engines for the missiles domestically. China is weak, its why they are mass building nukes now, their conventional military lacks teeth.
However that has included things like JTACs communicating with aircraft for air strikes, etc..
The Chinese got embarrassed last summer against India during their border spat.
Well they did build a lot of pointless empty cities, so maybe they stacked up so many lies they accidentally made a truth.
Speaking of which, https://youtube.com/watch?v=vZdBeczDLpA