A video that seems to have been produced for the Chinese government depicts an entirely successful Chinese attack on a US aircraft carrier battle group and the conquest of (apparently) Okinawa:

Chinese Animators Envision a Future Asia-Pacific War—and Blow Up the Internet

The video apparently ends with:

China is strong, victorious wars require deaths; for all to be strong and safe, [we] face the risks and dangers of war. We wholeheartedly love peace, but must be prepared for the likelihood of war. We respectfully and solemnly commemorate the 70th anniversary of the war against Japan.

Huh.

As is the way with propaganda videos, this one shows Their Side wholly successful, with their weapons and forces unfailingly accurate and capable of evading interception. Obviously a Chinese attack on a US carrier group and an invasion of Okinawa would be a whole lot messier for the Chinese than depicted here. American military tech is, at least for the moment, substantially superior to Chinese. But I don’t care how advanced you are if the enemy can simply throw waves of cheap weapons and cheaper soldiers at you. China is, after all, far closer to Okinawa than the US is; if for some reason the PLA wanted to set the world on fire, I’m sure they could eventually scrape up enough sheer blunt force to trash the US military in the region. The question is why they would want to do such a thing. The Chinese invade sovereign Japanese territory, and kill tens of thousands of Americans, someone will take offense to that. It would not surprise me in the least if, as the last American forces on Okinawa collapse under the sheer weight of a hundred thousand Chinese invaders, someone pulls the trigger on the megaton-class nuke buried under the base. And then the counter attack would begin, perhaps in the form of Tridents rising out of Ohio-class boomers lurking out int he middle of the Pacific.

Sure, it’s just propaganda. But then, so was Mein Kampf. Propaganda *can* change a country.