So much wrong here"Question: What was the rationale of then Imperial Japan for invading China?" Simply speaking, China's economic size didn't defend China from Japanese invasion. The US was militarily blockading Japan. China has no such ability to blockade any country. Having the biggest economy or being no.1 in GDP doesn't do anything. Enemies don't somehow stop their attacks just because you have bigger economy than them. China didn't obey the US when China was poor and the US was overwhelmingly the biggest economy. You shouldn't expect things would be any different when the economic sizes are reversed.
"by then how many Nuclear Subs do you think China would have?" It doesn't matter what or how many China would have. What China has does not offset enemy's offensive power. Modern weaponry is destructive enough even for smaller military and China has so many enemies all around. Think about this, no matter how many guns and bullets you have, it doesn't block a single enemy bullet.
You don't need much economy to have capabilities to destroy China. Even the poorest and most impoverished small countries have missiles and nuclear weapons, even the poorest tribes are running tanks and shooting rockets and Australia isn't and will never be the that much poor in the first place.
Economy is not a "the biggest takes all" game. The US or no one needs the biggest economy to have military capabilities to counter China. The US+Canada+Australia are two whole continents. They will of course always have enough economic means no matter what. Economy isn't an issue here. Taiwan already has/is adding significant missiles to strike on mainland China and they don't just go away even if Taiwan's economy reduces to pineapple farms. Taiwan doesn't even need pineapples to have nuclear missiles.
China was not even industrialized during ww2 while the US was by far the most industrialized nation and had the largest gdp in the world at that time. So of course the US could blockade Japan and eventually win the war. China could definitely blockade some countries if it went all out like the US did in a 1vs1 scenario.
Lol You think nuclear submarines are indestructible that can’t not be tracked and sunk by enemy subs, ships and aircraft? Modern weapons are destructive because of guns and bullets? By the way armor can block bullets.
So NK can destroy the US? Are you implying Australia is getting nuclear weapons?
In an arms race the economy is the backbone. Numbers and technology matters. Missiles can be intercepted and launch platforms destroyed. China has stated it would invade if Taiwan was acquiring nukes.
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