[drq]

China would be the big winner in this.
If India and Pakistan go down, not much keeping them from marching to the Middle East.

[AM2000]

Don't discount the Persians. They're a proud people, they may be willing to buy from the Chinese but they're not about to cede ground to them. And of course, there's Central Asia where they will get a $hitload of resistance from the Bear itself.

[Tuor]

China would be the big winner in this.

Yeah, except for all of the fallout which would first (and mostly) fall on China. Of course, considering how much the Chinese government cares about their people, that probably wouldn't trouble them *too* much. In fact, it might help a little with their overpopulation problem.

Tuor