I wonder, has China's modern military ever been in any kind of a real shooting war? Not the Korean war, because as I understand it, they simply threw bodies in there with no real military strategy.
The US and some of it's allies have had: WW I and II (obviously), Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I and II, Afghanistan, and countless military operations and skirmishes throughout the last 30+ years. I'm talking Panama, Somalia, OPS in Pakistan and all the Stans.
What military conflict has China done?