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I think I said China COULD have a 10 million man army. What do you think is wrong about that? With 3 times the population of the USA why do you think that out of the question? Right now they have a standing army of 2.3 million, not far off from my 10. I think it not out of reach they could muster up, shanghai if you will, enough to make a TWENTY million man army if they had to.
Their previous MO in warfare was to overwhelm the enemy with numbers. What makes you think that way of thinking has changed?
With nearly a billion people, they are already straining the resources of their country and are now the largest producers of pollution in the world. Some cities there have air unsafe to even breath, like Los Angeles when I was a child. I was 7 or 8 when I got pneumonia and we lived maybe 10 miles from downtown LA. So we went to Children's hospital in downtown and I remember seeing the air looking down the street as a dirty brownish green color. Thinking at the time, that doesn't look good, especially for a sick kid.
LA has done a lot to clean up their act but the basic cause of smog there in the 40's,50's, and 60's was a huge conspiracy that took decades to uncover, and all the principles were dead and buried by the time the scam was figured out.
It seems LA in the 1930's had a nice efficient mass transit system and had for years, electric trolley cars, overhead wires connecting to the motors to run the things. Power coming from hydroelectric power, the streetcars ran very efficiently and relatively quietly for a long time and cheap transportation also.
Well, Goodyear tire and rubber and a couple other tire companies saw an opportunity for a scam, got together with the Detroit car dudes and the oil companies and started a campaign to cast doubt on the viability of the electric street cars. In the 30's, the air in LA was almost pristine.
So they bribed the local politicians, not hard to do, and had all the electric cars removed, the tracks covered with asphalt and installed diesel powered buses.
The result was disasterous. The air quality shot down the tubes to the point where people were literally getting sick breathing it.
They figured out there was a scam, about 30 odd years later, all the principles dead but they reversed course, got rid of the stupid spewing buses and are reinstalling electric trolley cars or electric busses and with the other air quality measures, LA is a lot cleaner now.
Not perfect by any means but a hundred times better than last century.
So now China is going through the same thing, using coal as the chief fuel and really clogging the air there in some of the major cities.
They are finally cluing into the fact they are screwing up big time and are taking steps to clear the air, like using solar for instance.
My guess is it will take 20 more years to get the quality of air to the present day Los Angeles level.