What Should China Do If The US Uses Tactical Nukes?

bajingan said:

The us has vindicated China suspicion that their missile defence system is aimed at her (and russia)
Therefore China must (and already doing) increase their nuke warheads to at least 1000 to ensure mad

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LawLeadsToPeace said:

Then they get nuked and things are going to escalate really really fast. Finally, everyone is going to nuke each other into oblivion. Simple as that.

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hashtagpls said:

That's exactly right; just this week there was a successful (or so claimed) ICBM intercept test by the Pentagon; the USG has desired full spectrum nuclear dominance and missile defence primacy so as to prevent themselves from reaping what they intend to sow.

In the eg in that twitter post, it's not unfeasible to expect the US to do something as stupidly irresponsible as launch a mini-nuke at Fiery Cross reef (perhaps with the same damage as the MOAB) and then hunker down, daring the Chines to do something about it.
You saw this behaviour from Trump after launching tariffs against China then having the nerve to demand that China "not launch reciprocal tariffs against the US", like the old Polish saying, 'the US cries out in pain as he strikes you'.

Secondly, this admin. has demonstrated its white supremacist leanings so would not be particularly bothered by radioactive fallout afflicting the rest of east Asia since it would kneecap any notion of Asian superseding white nations.

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Nobonita Barua said:

I would say they will be doing good job converting a hegemonic threat to a threat that will end it's existence.


If it really happens what has been mentioned above, i don't see any other option for China except completely de-populating US.

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quantumlight said:

Not that simple, US counting on China getting nuclear blackmailed

Look at the Huawei example, US tries to kill Huawei, what did China do to Apple? Nothing

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quantumlight said:

Not that simple, US counting on China getting nuclear blackmailed

Look at the Huawei example, US tries to kill Huawei, what did China do to Apple? Nothing

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bajingan said:

I agree with you, the only way to deter us belligerence is ensuring mad
Minimum nuke deterrence is no longer enough

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quantumlight said:

Not that simple, US counting on China getting nuclear blackmailed

Look at the Huawei example, US tries to kill Huawei, what did China do to Apple? Nothing

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hashtagpls said:

But that's exactly because attacking Apple at this point in time would play into the Trump admin's strategy for a tech war with China and hopefully provide a reason to "re-shore" factories or at least get Apple's factories out of China so the Trump admin. can start bombing.

Similarly,the US would try to instigate a crisis in east asian so as to have an excuse to send carriers to the taiwan strait, and if in the event of a US defeat (highly likely), they would consider launching a mini nuke at fiery cross reef or in the event of a SCS or taiwan confrontation (much like what Pompeo tried to do with the provocative flights so close to civilian airliners), so as to poison the region, materially as well as politically.

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