My stance on China is, if the massive billions of average citizens in China would simply Walk Over and destroy the communist gov. it would end.
They did that already, it's called the "1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
We could end the BS here in America by doing the same thing. Fear and the facade of a comfortable life are powerful things.
Seeing the fortification of the capitol between Jan 6 and inauguration I think that might not necessarily be the case if they would mobilize 20k troops and have the logistical support of USMIL plus whatever militarized defenses of those sorts of structures we haven't seen yet.
I don't think you could muster that many troops to basically shoot at their neighbors. And truthfully, even if they had 20K troops if even ¼ of the civilian population mobilized they would be outnumbered. I seriously think they would hesitate to use anything really heavy on citizens, if anything it would make them look worse than they already do and turn more folks against them. I think they would be more likely to invite the UN to come help and, well... I'll let you speculate from there.
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