| It can. And it would've been true even with cold war peak weapon stockpiles. To anybody claiming the opposite, am asking them just why wouldn't it be any different how in Mao's most famous saying. Even with an extreme prospect of loosing half of population, you will still have a very angry country that too went completely overboard on preparing for NBC war, and which will still have world's biggest heavy industry even after massive losses. Even to this day, NBC shelters are built in every Chinese city. Xi, and top military officials spends most of their day in bunkers. The industry is holding bi-monthly, or tri-monthly mobilisation, and war production drills. Most state employees get military training, and basic military training is still a part of high school, and college in China. Humongous food, and materials caches across the country prepared explicitly with war in mind. And of course, the famed Kim style VIP nuke shelters in the mountains to hide a big portion of the party elite are very real too, as are the draconian plans which CPC has for its population in case of war, with being shot on sight for opposing conscription probably being the least cruel. Seeing well educated, if not elite, people in the West dismissing that so easily makes me nervous at least. |