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Comment author: jimrandomh 14 February 2010 04:00:58PM -1 points [-]

What exactly are you implying China would do then? No matter how much of the world they controlled, they still couldn't invade the US or any other nuclear power.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 February 2010 03:09:35AM 1 point [-]

Off the top of my head, they could:

  • Conquer any of the stable countries that didn't have nukes and was below the threshold at which the other nuclear powers choose to scorch the earth. (Although the US should probably then trade nukes with said countries to prevent that.)
  • Claim the sea, preventing any shipping trade. Again, to the threshold of thermonuclear war.
  • Claim space. Destroy all non Chinese satellites.
  • Maintain a standing army that could defeat the rest of the world in conventional warfare without breaking a sweat. Just because they can.
  • Develop AGI. Ok yes, they could do that anyway. So all the other stuff is irrelevant.
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