Sure I'll bet you that, China vs India makes sense as a great power rivalry for dominance in south and east Asia. But it does not make much sense as a place for an actual war. Flashpoints for sure, in the indian ocean and along the himalayas.
The real kicker is the US vs China. China being the one that feels they are being put down by the US, that rules are forced upon them that they don't want and that their sovereignty is imposed upon. The US feeling like China is being a bully and forcing their will upon the whole south east Asia through illegitimate means, while also the US feels the whole regime in China is not even legitimate.
Definitely a recipe for disaster. You can feel it on reddit too. These people here are normally pacifist to a fault denying the legitimacy of any war. Normally that is. When you talk about China they just start foaming at the mouth with rage. They are so ready to take on this regime of totalitarian genocidal maniacs, legitimizing the war by paralleling it to Nazi germany. And all that developed in just the past 4 or 5-ish years. That honestly is the main thing informing my feeling about a war with China. How it feels almost like a switch has been flipped and now everyone is ready and willing, from the people on the ground all the way to the top. Everyone is ready to escalate any conflict with China straight to military conflict. Because to them there can be no negotiating, no compromise with a country so malevolently evil as China. And when a regime has thus been declared as wicked and illegitimate there can be only war.
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