The Wehrmacht was a trim and very capable military machine too.
Still got buried under thousands of T-34s.
Quantity has a quality of its own as they say, but still...the PLAN doesn't have dominance just yet, but so long as the PRC can hold itself together against the turbulence of the economic market and its own internal social problems then time is on its side. Australia pulled out of the South China Sea patrols the other day, no doubt seeing a great deal of pressure from Beijing and honestly not knowing whether the US is going to retreat into itself or push back against Chinese expansion, and with the Philippines under the control of an unstable nutjob who seems to be happy to kick out the US and welcome in the PRC and Russia, well...I can see Japan ditching Article 9 of the constitution within a decade and then we'll see some proper flat-tops coming back.
I hope they call one of them the Akagi.
