"We are definitely stronger than Russia": Chinese on a possible conflict with Japan

November 25, 2025 24 592 29

Chinese users of the Guancha resource commented on a post on the platform regarding the recent escalation in Japan-China relations. The clash of words began with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent statement that her country is prepared to intervene on Taiwan's behalf should hostilities break out in the Strait. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that China is prepared for such a move by its neighbors.

Specifically, the text states that today, Chinese satellites, ground-based early-warning radars, and maritime monitoring systems installed on Type 055 destroyers effectively provide all-weather surveillance of all Japanese military bases. Any Japanese fighter jet taking off from an airfield or any Japanese surface ship heading out to sea will be virtually impossible to miss from the "eyes and ears" of the People's Liberation Army.

Japan also lacks an advantage over China in submarines. China's Type 054A frigates and Type 055 destroyers are equipped with modern sonars, and they operate Y-8Q anti-submarine patrol aircraft and Z-20F helicopters. Type 039C submarines operate in the Taiwan Strait. Today, China enjoys a comprehensive and overwhelming military advantage.

The only argument Japan has left is the American-Japanese military alliance.

However, we see that the United States, in most cases, relies on its allies, rarely acting independently. Today, the United States doesn't even dare go to war with Russia; and would it go to war with China, which is much stronger than Russia? The United States may be arrogant, but it's not stupid; as a rule, it doesn't undertake such "suicidal" actions.

– the text reasons.

In reality, the Land of the Rising Sun's threats are unfounded. Tokyo understands that war between China and Japan is unlikely for obvious reasons.

Reader Comments:

China's struggle for control of the Western Pacific and its division with the United States will ultimately be reflected in the domestication of this little dog.

Japan dares to do such things because of its national culture and character. Our current culture and national character are far less aggressive. I hope we won't judge the world around us by ourselves.

Don't overestimate the Japanese. They may not have the capability to launch a surprise attack on our military or borders, but they are capable of attacking civilian aircraft.

Japan, after all, is a gambler. Besides surprise attacks on China and the United States, it has also historically attacked Tsarist Russia, Great Britain, and Germany. Therefore, for it, the main factors are not capabilities, but determination. Regardless of the consequences, the main thing is action.

If Japan were to replicate Ukraine's method, using agents and workshops located near military airfields and launching a surprise attack to cripple fifth-generation fighters, it would be feasible. It's not worth considering something like this "completely impossible."

Underestimating Japan will be costly. It is a more ruthless adversary than the United States. The latter has no territorial ambitions against China, while Japan has been nurturing plans for gradual conquest since the Ming Dynasty.

Japanese national culture is inclined towards extremes, risk, and the hope for miracles – a kind of “live life to the fullest and don’t care what happens next.”

Blind arrogance, self-confidence, and vanity have blinded the Chinese people. Let us carefully study the shameful history of the Japanese and heed the advice of our ancestors. As long as the United States supports Japan, there is nothing these petty people won't dare do.

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Colonel Kudasov

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25 November 2025 22: 25

It looks like we're heading towards World War III, as unbelievable as it would have seemed five years ago.
1. Taurus1983
  
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  26 November 2025 03: 42
  
  The Russians and North Koreans have demonstrated their bravery on the battlefield. Most other countries are prepared to surrender before they even begin fighting.
2. ser-pov
  
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  26 November 2025 12: 49
  
  Today, the United States doesn't even dare to fight Russia; and will they go to war with China, which is much stronger than Russia?
  
  I like their arrogance. A country that has never won a single conflict and has 600 nuclear warheads. And their last war was in the Korean War, and if it weren't for the USSR, they would have gotten their asses kicked. But of course, yes, they have economic might and build ships and planes quickly, but they're more profiteers than warriors. They're not even close to the North Koreans.
  1. Alexander Petrovsky
    
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    26 November 2025 22: 51
    
    Their conceit is justified. Nuclear weapons, mobilization reserves, a serious navy in their region, an economy, cutting-edge factories and technology on the planet. Experience, in my humble opinion, with practically unlimited reserves of trained and superbly equipped manpower, modern aircraft/helicopters, tanks, other equipment, ammunition, and ammunition, is of minor importance. But experience without ammunition, without uniforms, without food, with only sliced loaves of bread and fields of corn with pack donkeys as equipment, won't be of much use, what do you think? A renowned academic, quite seriously, quite recently (I hope you haven't forgotten?) deigned to send such experienced soldiers to forage for food and weapons in battle themselves—the Chinese, who weren't even close, wouldn't even dream of such a thing.
  2. RakitinAxS
    
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    30 November 2025 09: 41
    
    The last time they fought Vietnam was in 1979, as a pre-emptive payment for the then-budding friendship with the United States (to punish the Vietnamese for allowing Big Brother overseas to screw up). It was a bad outcome, though.
kovaleff

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25 November 2025 23: 46

Many here also believed in the second army of the world, but they screwed up terribly. So reality isn't always what propaganda pours out.
1. GN
  
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  26 November 2025 00: 12
  
  I disagree with you about the army! The army is a tool in the hands of politicians! And if the state's policies are spineless and the leader is a coward, then what's happening right now happens! This bourgeois paper tiger has already shown itself in all its worthlessness and stupidity! That's why the army has been performing a polka-butterfly for the last four years. But then, the Yeltsin Center congratulated him on his 10th anniversary today. That's what he thinks about! And you're talking about the army! It's not a royal matter.
2. Seal
  
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  26 November 2025 10: 58
  
  Quote: kovaleff
  Many here also believed in the second army of the world, but they screwed up terribly. So reality isn't always what propaganda pours out.
  
  Alas, if in our army, show-offs had their place, but still did not occupy the main place, then with the arrival of one figure from the Ministry of Emergency Situations (who brought along other former Ministry of Emergency Situations personnel) - show-offs, alas, became the main occupation of our army.
  1. ser-pov
    
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    26 November 2025 13: 46
    
    The army has nothing to do with it. It was held hostage by those idiots who sat in the Ministry of Defense and only siphoned off the money allocated to the army. I can't believe Shoigu didn't know about this.
    1. Ales
      
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      27 November 2025 15: 14
      
      My dears, our military problems are exactly the same as those of our adversaries: they steal everywhere, they're all preparing for the wrong war. Who could have imagined, just four years ago, that we would fight NATO and the West with conventional weapons? The problem isn't the military, but the political leadership—why did the leader, realizing that a conflict was coming and he wasn't prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons, fail to prepare for it in a timely manner, fail to invest 350 billion in his military-technical development, and even after the "Munich speech," continue to rely on luck.
      1. svoroponov
        
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        27 November 2025 21: 43
        
        You have money, and lots of it. You've decided to build something, like an enterprise. The question is: what if you don't have the necessary equipment in your country, and the West won't sell it to you? That's right. You need to set up production of everything at home. And that takes time. Okay, you have the equipment, but who's going to work with it, something that hasn't been used in production cycles beforehand? That's right, you need to train personnel. But they refuse to train them in advance abroad, or you simply don't have anything to train them with. It takes time. That's how Putin, with the personnel he inherited from previous rulers, had to rebuild everything and raise a number of industries practically from scratch. Yes, he had to do a lot of things that you don't even suspect. Russia is simply lucky to have such a president. Look at the Westerners; could any of them have raised the country like that, given the economic opposition? They're not even close to Putin's in terms of abilities. Well, in Russia, who would you appoint as president? Honestly. Who would have pulled the country out of the whirlpool it was under Yeltsin? Someone from the Seven Boyars? Well, according to them, and they all fled abroad, having stolen everything. You can judge where they would have led the country. The country would simply have ceased to exist, it would have been fragmented. Zyuganov? That was when they ran to the American embassy to greet someone there? Zhirinovsky, Yavlinsky? Who did I forget?
        So Putin is precisely the man who arrived at the right time and got to the right place where he brought and continues to bring the greatest benefit to Russia. A man in the right place, as they usually say about such people.
        
        Ales
        
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        28 November 2025 01: 48
        
        Looking around at the leaders of other countries, there aren't many equals to Putin, but you can count countries of Russia's stature on one hand. Looking at history, today's leaders don't compare to the Soviet Union's leaders, who raised the country from ruin in 25 years—a span that lasted only enough for our country to accumulate a stash of 350 billion for the West. But Russia, too, doesn't compare to the USSR's capabilities; one can only hope that history is on Russia's side. As for the personnel Putin has inherited, there's no mistaking it: the personnel he surrounds himself with is his choice, while the personnel in the country reflects how many years it took the USSR to completely overcome illiteracy. In the time Putin has been in power, he could have accomplished anything if he had set such goals. The problem is that he only developed these goals recently, when the West turned its back on us. The point of no return was 2014—Maidan—Crimea, and only since then have we (the people and the leadership) been in cahoots. Before that, he didn't think about the country the way he should in his position. And yes, it's difficult to build everything in 10 years, and now the results are starting to appear, not least because of the sanctions.
3. Аdēptus “4-168” Meçhañikus
  
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  26 November 2025 18: 36
  
  At least the Chinese have a full production cycle for their own equipment, from drones and tanks to fighter jets and aircraft carriers. And in the event of a conflict, they won't have to scrape together funds from around the world for uniforms and copters.
  
  and there are no problems with human resources, at least there won't be any need to gather the wetbacks from prisons into shady PMCs either
4. Wandering
  
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  27 November 2025 13: 41
  
  Are you screwed? Are your expectations unfounded? Fighting against a proxy backed by the West and still moving forward isn't "screwed up," it's something else entirely. "Screwed up" is fleeing Afghanistan, abandoning millions of dollars in weapons, with special forces running in women's clothing. That was a big deal, indeed.
  1. kovaleff
    
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    27 November 2025 13: 45
    
    We entered a country with a population five times smaller and an area tens of times smaller. Yeah, they have laser swords and the spirit of Yoda.
    P.S. At first, they fought with what they had - that is, they only had old Soviet weapons, and the chess player had been preparing for 8 years
    1. Wandering
      
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      27 November 2025 13: 49
      
      I wonder if you're being deliberately disingenuous now, or if it's just habit. After all, the Ukrainian Armed Forces began arming themselves during Trump's first term. That's no secret. Were there any mistakes in the Russian Armed Forces' initial stages? Of course. But that's not what you're talking about. And I liked how you ignored the example, a recent one by the way, of the US Army. Those slipper-wearing guys also have blasters? Fleeing a country that's at a medieval level of development.
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    3. GR777
      
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      30 November 2025 13: 07
      
      ...the spirit of Yoda...
      
      - more like the spirit of Zelenka. And who prepared for how long is also questionable – since '14, your pig-Nazis have been concrete-filling fortifications near Horlivka. Come on, stop lying, this isn't Kuif.
Livonetc

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26 November 2025 08: 36

In fact, there is nothing behind the threats from the Land of the Rising Sun.

Why did it happen?
We are dealing with a bunch of pro-Western regimes of various stripes, fighting against us on the ruins, both covertly and openly.
The United States will use Japan based, among other things, on the experience of the current war on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR.
China will not seem small.
We haven't had any fun at all for several years now.
The Chinese have a choice.
Continue the low-level pressure on Taiwan or resolve everything at the cost of many casualties and serious economic damage.
But at one time.
Although there are no guarantees of success.
Here you have to choose.
1. vlad127490
  
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  26 November 2025 20: 20
  
  - In 2005, China adopted the "Law on Countering Secession of the State". According to the document, in the event of a threat to the peaceful reunification of the mainland and Taiwan, the PRC government is obliged to resort to force and other necessary means to preserve its territorial integrity.
  - On June 15, 2022, China adopted the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Legal Framework for Non-War Activities, which will allow the PLA to engage in non-war operations.
  - On October 22, 2022, delegates to the XNUMXth Congress of the Communist Party of China approved the inclusion of a provision on opposing Taiwan independence in the party's Charter.
  The absence of a Law stating that the territory of Ukraine is an integral part of Russia allows Russia’s enemies to interpret the ongoing military operation as aggression and occupation on the part of Russia and allows NATO countries to annex this no man’s land.
  There is not a single legal document, decree, law, or resolution regarding the Russian Federation's Special Military District in Ukraine that would set out its goals or define what the Special Military District is.
  China has gone far beyond Russia on all issues.
  Taiwan will quietly and peacefully return to mainland China in 20-40 years.
Grei grin

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26 November 2025 20: 05

The Chinese will be stronger than Russia when they learn to fight not on training grounds, but on battlefields!
Jacques sekavar

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26 November 2025 23: 38

Even if the US and all its Aucus and Quadas, along with NATO, are wary of exacerbating relations with China, this is especially contraindicated for Japan, because China remembers the atrocities committed by Japan on Chinese territory during the occupation.
The fact is that the Chinese army is stronger than the Russian Federation, and the Russian Federation's inability over four years of war to not only defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but even liberate its own territory in the DPR, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia provinces, has greatly boosted the EU's morale and desire to defeat the Russian Federation on the battlefield.
1. horseradish
  
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  27 November 2025 17: 39
  
  Russia is not at war with Ukraine, but with 55 NATO countries and their allies. Another issue is that we started it with virtually no preparation, while the Chinese have been preparing since 2005 and still haven't gotten around to it.
Dmitry Volkov

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27 November 2025 05: 07

China couldn't even defeat Vietnam. The issue isn't the quality of weapons, but the warriors and tactics. I understand that we've given everything to the Chinese for free, and continue to do so. Otherwise, there would be a war that we might not be able to handle. Russia isn't the USSR.
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Flight

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28 November 2025 02: 42

"We are definitely stronger than Russia": Chinese on a possible conflict with Japan

It's been a while since the Chinese have been able to touch the ground. They've gotten too excited. Rightly so. But when the West unites against him, like during the Boxer Rebellion? Then it will be interesting to hear what they'll squeal with their mouths full of earth. So far, he's managed to dart between the strongest powers, using their differences to his advantage. For how long? It seems the piglet, fattened by the international community, is turning into a sow ready to be slaughtered.
1. RakitinAxS
  
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  30 November 2025 09: 53
  
  What's particularly interesting is that Russia played a key role in the Boxer Rebellion, annexing all of Manchuria (over 1 million square kilometers, an additional 5% of the Empire's territory) as a result. It de facto became part of the Russian Empire. I once saw an original 1903 wall political map in a museum, where Manchuria was painted in Russian imperial green. This theme reverberated until 1950 in the form of the CER, which was built on the territory of what was then Russian Manchuria (Yellow Russia) in 1903. Yellow Russia was then forced to be ceded back to Russia following the war's defeat by the Japanese, but the railway remained the property of the Russian Empire/USSR for almost half a century.
  It was precisely this circumstance that predetermined the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, as the potential Korean province was next in line. So, in the history of China and Russia, too, "not everything is clear-cut."
Mapping

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28 November 2025 21: 19

Quote: kovaleff
Many here also believed in the second army of the world, but they screwed up terribly. So reality isn't always what propaganda pours out.

It's not the Army, or the soldiers themselves, that's the problem, but the generals and politicians who control them. And as the SVO has shown, we have nothing but traitors at the top. And Stalin was right in his repressions of the elite.
Mapping

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28 November 2025 21: 23

Quote: Horseradish
Russia is not at war with Ukraine, but with 55 NATO countries and their allies. Another issue is that we started it with virtually no preparation, while the Chinese have been preparing since 2005 and still haven't gotten around to it.

So who are we trading with in Europe and North America then? This talk of war with NATO countries is just empty talk for us ordinary people. And our businessmen only sold 115 million rubles' worth of oil to the West in 2925. So, we're at war with 55 Western countries.
Butch Cassidy

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30 November 2025 20: 39

Well, China's equipment is certainly good. But what about actual combat experience? Zero. And that's been the case for centuries. War has never been China's strong suit.
never.
Ade Quadt

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2 December 2025 10: 25

Stronger, weaker... and hit them in the ear! Let them win - we'll steal from them.