Did the Soviets maintain a similar level of parity to the US during the Cold War that the Chinese do today?

china is a joke compared to the US or the USSR during the cold war

No, the Soviets were never in a position where they could have defeated the US whereas the US made calculations that they could defeat the Soviets but it would be a Pyrrhic victory.

China/Soviet Union comparisons as "Adversaries to the USA/Western Capitalists," isn't good really.

The USSR represented an alternative to Western Capitalist system, and saw itself that way. Communism was god and the USSR was its prophet. USSR challenged the Western Capitalist system and sought converts from other countries.

Current China, meanwhile, doesn't challenge Western Capitalism. Nor is it a prophet peddling an alternative way of life. In fact: it absolutely doesn't give a fuck so long as it makes a buck.

Which is why Americans are utterly confused as whether to treat China as a USSR style enemy or as a business partner.

We would crush the US in conventional war. Only nuclear weapon keep them safe, but Chinese engineer developing missile defense and new 5th generation fighter that is much better than overpriced F-35.

Already we are a large proportion of Canada. We will control Canada in a generation. China play the long game. We will have launch pad for dominance. US astronaut go to space on Russian ship. China has own rockets.

China will take your nation.

>Chinese Rocketry
>youtube.com/watch?v=Uax-oMzuIA8

Their military is quite strong, even though you may not value it because they're not as active (read: aggressive and imperialistic) as the urss was

Wasted quints

the last bit of your sentence makes me laugh

>We would crush the US in conventional war.
By swimming across the pacific? I don't think you appreciate the logistics of invading a country the size of the US.

good luck boyo :D

Ok so to go over a couple aspects
>nukes
The soviets lagged wayyyyyyyy behind until the mid 70s, then caught up and exceeded america but only by a bit
>ground fordes
The soviets maintained fundementally overwhelming superiority in ground forces and were ahead in conventional military technology in a couple areas for the entire cold war
>navy
Same as above except replace soviets with usa, the soviet navy was based on coast defence and commerce raiding and possibly occasionally trying to snipe carriers
>airforce
Same as above
>econmically
Obviously the usa had a wayy bigger economy but the soviet union was on a war footing for basically its entire existence and could moobilize faster than the usa as well as outproduce them militeraly for at least the first year of war
>politically/diplomatically
The alliances were essentially equally strong throughout
>espionage
The soviets had basically the whole a,ericam government permiated with spies for the whole thing really, thats why they never sunt up that many spy satelites, they knew where every silo and airbase was before it was evem built

But this is all moot since china isnt even attempting to achieve party with the usa in any way, since theyre not trying to replace the usa as global hegemon like the ussr was. China is succeeding perefectly fine under the current global order, and is perfectly happy for the usa to do all the work to uphold said global order while they develop their country

Canada will be majority Han by 2050.

They had much more. USSR was more or less equal to US militarily by the early 80s (though this degraded), Chins is like 50% US military power atm

You are dumb. Chinese army is much much larger and our new planes and tanks as good.

America collapse in days without Chinese imports.

>they're not as active (read: aggressive and imperialistic) as the urss wa
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>America collapse in days without Chinese imports.
nah, that's a meme. Chinese economy is entirely dependent on being able to export to richer nations, but if Americans stopped getting Chinese imports tomorrow we would simply revert back to the state of affairs from a few decades ago.

user thia is bait poating. The United States production ability out class majority of the nations on earth.

China losing the U.s as a trade partner and exporter would do more harm to it and ita economy than the U.S. There is also the fact that China is incapable of complete power projection and doesn't have that many allies who will put up with its stuff. We also have other factors to think about when it comes to a military and that is logistics and corruption.

>revert back to the state of affairs from a few decades ago.
Does that mean we can hardline on Taiwanese independence again?

I agree. The catastrophe that was the Tupolev Tu-144 really demonstrated the burgeoning gap between western technology leaders like France, UK and USA. The Soviets even asked for technology and French expertise to help solve some of the design challenges and were rebuked multiple times.

The Americans made the F-15 to beat the hypothetical super-fighter the MiG-25 looked like. In actuality it was pretty trash and only has the advantage of flying really really really fast and mounting some pretty boilerplate missiles that were pretty good at their introduction. Pretty much every American 4th gen buries the MiG-25.

t. Foxbat is my favorite eastern aircraft

have you read mig pilot?