• Endorkend@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    China has the advantage of actually having enough people to do the meat for the grinder approach though.

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        6 months ago

        eventually the bodies will pile-up enough that the next batch can just walk over.

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              6 months ago

              It would take around 400 million bodies to fill in a one metre wide corridor across the strait based on some napkin math. So yeah I guess it’s actually possible technically

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      6 months ago

      China’s big problem is what they offer internationally is cheap labor and they’re going through a population collapse now, like other countries that ascend economically, people have fewer kids and younger workers want better salaries and conditions, (understandably so!) This combined with the US’s trade war with them has caused international companies to move a lot of production to other impoverished nations like Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Mexico, among others instead of to China. China’s economic miracle was because of this large pool of population that is vanishing. Sacrificing soldiers of reproductive age would accelerate this problem.

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      6 months ago

      Not for long. China is on path to have the same demographics crisis as Russia.

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      6 months ago

      Chinese central command wouldn’t have the power to push such an approach, their army has a very decentralised structure due to its partisan roots.