>>>China is a 3rd rate power but with tons of people.
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>If/when China decides to invade another country, they'll do it with 1,000,000 troops. A loss rate of 50% will be "disappointing", but there are plenty more troops to replace them. You need to consider who is capable of standing up to that.

Recall, recently, seeing an article (from the UK, there was nothing in US about it), about a speech the Minister of Defense of the CCP made. He mentioned that that if let lose biological weapons in the USA, they could kill over 100 million people. And, if the US nuked China that the total loses would be small in comparison to the total population.

Also, they have been threatening Japan with war over rights to the oil fields in the East-Seas.