How much poorer would it be ?This would possibly lead to a delay in things such as China joining the World trade organization, which means China is significantly poorer.
How much poorer would it be ?This would possibly lead to a delay in things such as China joining the World trade organization, which means China is significantly poorer.
Well seeing as over 500 million Chinese have emerged from extreme poverty since 1981, with China integrating into the world economy being responsible for this change.How much poorer would it be ?
By then the ROC Army had not been downsized like they were afterwards.
What...the....eff. They've been downsizing since 1996?
Is that "moral hazard", the lesson they took was US will bail us out, so it's up to them to work on military protection, not us?
The former, did China even have a presents in the Spratly Islands in the 1990s?
So assuming one of the missile tests strikes a ship, or an island leading to a border conflict that escalates what would be the outcome?
A small scale war between the PLA and RCOM with the latter being backed by the United States would result in the Chinese loosing.
The main question however is what ramifactions would China being sanctioned in 1996 have on the rest of the world, especially if this leads to China developing characteristics of a rouge state.
This would possibly lead to a delay in things such as China joining the World trade organization, which means China is significantly poorer.
Unless it deals with magic, don’t call something ASB. It’s extremly discouraging, this is an alternate history forum. There were reasons why every scenario on here didn’t happen, you wouldn’t enjoy it if your scenarios were all referred to as ASB.
How about we come up with a response rather then simply shouting impossible.
Almost ASB. Iraq was sanctioned seriously after the Gulf War including arms trade restrictions and was never able to rebuilt its army by arms acquisitons. Any shipment from a lost PRC to a lost Iraq is going to monitored closely and intercepted if anything suspicous is detected. Moreover, PRC is likely to be sancationed too after a failed attack and the sanction regime may also include restrictions on arms trading too.
But they could do it illegally
A lot of shady stuff happened with general 'aid' to Iraq post Gulf War.
Hussein noted that Iran's weapons capabilities had increased dramatically while Iraq's weapons "had been eliminated by the UN sanctions," and that eventually Iraq would have to reconstitute its weapons to deal with that threat if it could not reach a security agreement with the United States.
No 1996 era PLN/PLAAF have absolutely no chance against the USI don't think China could take the main island (lack of sea lift) I think they can take some of the smaller and closer islands (and maybe HK as well)
I picture air war, what was Chinas air power like at the time? Could they strike US bases in the region (SK, Japan)? Would thy strike them?
No 1996 era PLN/PLAAF have absolutely no chance against the US
They still don't today, but in 1996 it would have being an even worse wipeout
Would an American victory encourage the US to attack North Korea over its nuclear program