Is China as powerful as the former Soviet Union or weaker?

Who is stronger

  • The former Soviet Union

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Red_Army

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Does China's current military strength match the former Soviet Union? In 1989, the USSR had 4,178,000 troops, 60,000 tanks, 6800 combat aircrafts, 620 warships, 8500 surface to air missiles, 2400 intercontinental missiles, and 35,000 nukes. The USSR's technology at the time was equal to the US.
 
Re: Is China as powerful as the former Soviet Union or weake

Red_Army said:
Does China's current military strength match the former Soviet Union?.

NO.

In 20 years maybe. But even after 20 years, China will not have that many allies as USSR had got. But I don't think China wants to be a Global Superpower in military sense, China's focus will be in Asia.
 
Plus for China theres dependence on oil from Arab nations, don't think U.S.S.R. had that problem.
 
Flying Frog is correct, however Id venture to say that Chinese troops may be better motivated then their Russian counterparts, who have had to deal with defense rollbacks and poor standards ever since the collapse. That being said, Putin may be able to rally the average Russian soldiers moral against foreign terrorists, but not a foreign army.
 
China's current military strength is no match for former Soviet Union in almost every area.Maybe China's army can compare with Soviet Union in population.but who can tell what the exact population of china's army is?
 
Mlitary? Soviet ofcourse better MUCH BETTER.

But Economically? Politically?

Arh~~~~~~`Let's say overall,

I think China is better.
 
It may take even longer than 20 years, They still do not even have a Carrier. Most of thier military is also outdated, so it may take longer than 20 years
 
China doesn't need as much sophisticated euqipment as other countries bevause there are so many of them.

I know that it sounds stupid but they are very disciplined, the views on taking casualties are not the same as in the western world. It is more acceptable to take heave casualties.

If of some reason the chinese want to expand there land they just going to start marching. You gonna need nukes to stop them.

Don't underestimate them. They do have some advance euqipment too.
 
larsrq is right about underestimating the PRC. Don't estimate the capability of the PLA and the PRC.

Remember what McArthur said when U.S. troops were near the Yalu River in Korea? Huge miscalculation. Even so PLA was at it's infancy and their military was rushed into training, the fully mechanized U.S. military couldn't withhold the rushing human wave tactics. (Although PRC had technical and economic aid from the Soviet Union)


I know that it sounds stupid but they are very disciplined, the views on taking casualties are not the same as in the western world. It is more acceptable to take heave casualties.

Although it is true as demonstrated in past conflicts, I doubt they will accept heavy casualties for tactical success in the future.
 
The things is that heavy casualties for them isn't the same as heavy for us.

I don't like to go into numbers but it do come from different approches to human life, loyalty to the state and so on. It is partly the same in Russia but they are coming closer to the western views of it now. It will take very long time before the Chinese change there views.
 
It will take very long time before the Chinese change there views.

Well, it might not be that long that you might think. China is westernizing in both economically and socially and that will change how people will view the values of life.
 
china is changing,
sadly, the tradition of 2000 years of Confucius teaching is still among the chinese ppl ( a top rule is to obey the emperor)

one good thing about Soviet Union is that it changed peacefully (almost ) to a demoractic society and market economy,

china is changing too, but not as radical as Russia is,
prehaps in the future, china will transform itself into a democratic nation as russia did, then it wil become a super power
 
ai ya...its politcial system is still not democratic

until the government structure changed, no matter how good the economy is, there will always be super huge number of corruption and wasting of resource and money
 
....and what is diferent from the other nations spending? They waste alot of money on alot of things that don't realy matter.
 
u will know if u r or u have been in china

Government offcials wasted the tax money of ppl like hell, cuz no one supervise them

the buisenss man can use money to buy everything, even killing some ppl
by the way, judges accpet money too (my dad was a buiess man in china)

the degree of corroption in china is very serious that the production of ppl's hardworking are mostly wasted by those greedy official
 
Individually, China has the potential to become more powerful than the Soviet Union alone ever was. Currently, China has economically and industrially surpassed the old USSR in every category besided advanced technology.

Diplomatically ... well, not many nations trust them and their list of dependable military and diplomatic allies is pretty sort -- just North Korea. If they were to take some drastic steps to become more democratic and less feared, the possibilities are endless. Currently, the people of the People's Republic of China yearn to re-establish themselves as the Middle Kingdom once more -- this time to the whole world. Without resolution to their diplomatic circumstances, they may individually surpass whoever they like, but their culture and influence will not become any more relevant to the world as a whole.
 
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