If war broke out USA could win the initial battles but China's manufacturing
capacity would bury us much like ours did to Japan in WWII. In WWII we had
literally thousands of existing factories we switched to war production. Now
all of our factories are gone. Our industrial capacity could not sustain a
war with China. China has nukes too so that would not be a viable option. http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/13/politics/us-china-confrontation/i
