>>21030686Well first you'd vaporize almost half the world's labor supply, and some of the cheapest labor at that. The price of labor would absolutely skyrocket worldwide, it'd be black plague-tier. Wages would spike all over the place, firms would turn to alternatives to try and stay profitable. Big pushes for automation, modern day slavery, laws capping wages, union busting, stuff like that. Expect tons of industry moving to Africa and SEA, scraping the barrel for the cheapest labor there is.
The entire world economy would fall apart as the supply chains relying on chinese manufacturing and indian labor are destroyed. Remember the big stock market crash during COVID? The world economy lost trillions in value. That only killed a few million people. We're talking death on a scale 500x bigger, all at once. Plus the total devastation of all the capital those countries had, their factories, farmland, real estate...
there'd also be the matter of Chinese and Indian land and resources. Realistically they'd be open for anyone to take. In practice, with china out of the picture the US military would probably have first dibs and enforce some kind "international framework" related to that, probably negotiated through the UN. If Pakistan is not included in this nuking I imagine there'd be a massive colonization effort with them rushing across the border to claim as much land as they can. If Taiwan isn't included in the nuking they might assert their legal claims as the Republic of China and claim they have rights to resettle the land.
btw, despite the devastation, the world population would recover quickly as humans continue to suck up all available resources and convert them into more drooling shitting retards, forever. The Ganges would be refilled with hepatitis and plastic within 100 years most likely, and smog would return to the former site of Beijing.
