[michpoch]

> Since late 2022, Russia is fighting with freshly mobilized troops that go from being civilians to dying in a meat attack

The frontline troops - sure, but officers and up?

Now think if the Chinese will be willing to take part in a meat-grinder war?

> 1960s tanks from Soviet stockpiles.

You mean in a battle-tested equipment. China got some-quality modernised soviet equipment with operators that never took part in any operations.

China has certainly a weaker military than Russia before the war. And a society that might not be willing to die in millions to occupy a small island where their fellow people live, for no good reason other than political.