China has millions of surplus military aged males. When the next big shooting war happens that will make a huge difference because they can afford to take huge casualties that other nations cannot absorb. Numerical superiority is an often overlooked military tactic
That's one argument.
From a big picture standpoint.
Big pictures are made of small components.
Those "surplus military aged males" are all the only son, only child, of
millions of Chinese couples.
When they start getting slaughtered, there better be a dam good reason.
And it better be able to be passed off as defending the homeland.
