Quote Originally Posted by FoxtArt View Post
If China goes in there... they will succeed.

Politicians control our wars with 3-6 year election cycles. China? Doesn't have to care.

China has facial recognition, emotion tracking, and outright concentration camps, aka "re-education camps" for undesirable muslims inside their own country (Uyghurs).

They don't have protestors, liberals, hippies, or anyone at all to answer to. They don't have rules of engagement like we do. They would fight a total fucking war, and then it's pretty hard to foment underground resistance from inside the walls of a Chinese concentration camp, who doesn't believe you are entitled to any rights, unalienable or not. It's also pretty hard to be motivated to resist when they haul your family off for it. They either would be reeducated, or they all will be executed. And it is IMPOSSIBLE to hide with the technology and net they deploy.

We can laugh at their movie trailers - cause we do make much better in Hollywood.

China though, knows how to control people with a fist of AR-500 steel. If they start pushing into neighboring countries then we may as well bend over and turn over the keys of the world to China, they will clean out places like Afganistan and have fresh territory for resources and future chinese settlement. Whoever used to be there will be a subchapter in our history books, not theirs....
that was one of the factors to their advantage.
They most likely not need to worry about human rights. They would not care if it is Karzai or Taliban. They will do business regardless of human rights.

Main obstacles I see so far is topo/terrain and some logistics.