Not really. They were They were unable to proceed beyond the 38th parallel after the PVA counterattack, thus being unable to project force further and signed the armistice.
Their calculation will be the same as China's calculation that the other side (the US) has nuclear weapons, at least.
They are both conflicts in which the US did not go all out and chose to extricate itself because they were considered sideshows to the main opponent the US wanted to focus on. In Korea's case, the USSR. In Afghanistan's case, China. China would be very foolish to try and use Korea as a comforting thought giving a sense of overconfidence that the US would surrender and accept defeat without using nuclear weapons, just as the US would be foolish to overestimate China's willingness to accept defeat.
nope, that is again factually untrue. Your claim is 1. the US did not go all out in a manner comparable to Afghanistan and 2. they thought it was a distraction from more important things elsewhere. Both assertions are provably false.
They underestimated China's resolve to their own disadvantage.
I don't buy the argument that US war effort in Korea is half hearted attempt. They throw everything that they got including the kitchen sink. Something like more than half of their army strength was sent to Korea
You missed the point. It isn't that the Americans were worried about the Soviets intervening in Korea. They were worried that if they went all out in Korea/China, their energies would be distracted from the Soviet threat in Europe. They basically wanted to reserve most of their power to counter the Soviets from breaching the iron curtain. Similarly, the reason Biden is pulling out of Afghanistan is because Americans feel Middle Eastern wars take up resources and attention which they would rather spend countering China.
Does China want to fight a global war? Never!
Biden pulled out simply because they couldn’t not win. After spending over 2 trillion dollars the end was nowhere in sight, this is independent of China. Americans do not have the stomach for protracted conflicts that drains blood and treasure endlessly.
Interesting to note the US has been defeated soundly in the Korean War [ helped by the Chinese Volutary Army], when they wanted to cross the 38 parallel but were driven back with huge US casualties. Second, the Vietnamese War where China helped the North Vietnamese and the yanks have to retreat out from Vungtao. Now the Afgaistan War at which they scuttled out like rats on a sinking ship! Have the US learnt?
