Not really. If it's a manufacturing numbers game, the numbers are currently stacked in America's favor. Like most categories related to killing people (gun violence, heart disease) merica ranks first in most categories corresponding to military manufacturing. Their naval aviation component alone...
I seriously doubt this. We've got technology China is still way behind. The B-2 is 1980s technology and the H-20 still isn't a thing yet.
Conventionally, the US absolutely slams China. That said, we are not limitless in our warmongering and since China has nukes, we'll keep our distance atm.
Nobody can make the US rethink going to war. We have the world hostage. China isn't stupid enough to try anything against us, but we are quite ready to whoop their *** conventionally and then experience nuclear hellfire when it gets to that point.
China's only way to reunify is peacefully. Soft...
China is easily deterred. They posture a lot, but their "final warning" is usually a bluff.
The US, on the other hand, aren't. From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to the Maine to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, we have a long history of being willing to go into a long and protracted war over relatively...