If the battle were to take place in and around the Chinese/Taiwan mainlands...I believe it.
Taiwan only remains Taiwan as it is today because they refrain from speaking in ways that would piss off China.
My corp has a lab over in Taiwan. We do business in mainland China. I typically don’t pass up the chance to ask visiting Taiwanese employees during casual conversation at lunch or drinks about their views on Taiwanese independence.
Almost every single time the question elicits pretty strange responses. I’ve had almost all say, “We do not speak of such things”.
Why you ask? The Taiwanese are heavily infiltrated by communist Chinese officers. Even some of the workers that come to our campus here in America are likely Chinese...not Taiwanese. They may work for our company in Taiwan as Taiwanese workers, but be sure that from time to time there are communist Chinese looking to acquire technology.
Anyhow..drifted a bit, but to dovetail back in to the notion, Taiwan is still in one piece because they refrain from taking on China by remaining somewhat subservient to the mainland.
If war ever broke out between China/Taiwan...Taiwan would be a smoldering heap in a very short period of time.
IIRC, it took 100% of our air power to defeat Germany and Japan.
And then how long would it take us to rebuild the aircraft that we lost? And train new pilots, of course.
It is not the current military balance which is worrying.
What is the (huge) problem is that China continues to be a very closed society, allowing no immigration except Chinese race, and yet we continue to ship more and more of America’s formerly massive manufacturing base there.
That is very very concerning. And nobody, in either party is saying America needs to be for America once again.
I will however. America needs to be for America once again.
Come to think of it, one guy is saying that, and that is exactly why I am supporting his candidacy:
Donald Trump is saying we need to return the focus to rebuilding our very own country.
He is 100% right.
America first.
I’ve long thought that mainland China will take Taiwan before 0bama is gone.
The reasons that now is the time to move is obvious, given who commands our armed forces and foreign policy.
The paper tigers in DC have shown the world they can and will renege on promises (as in Ukraine), so the long standing promise to defend Taiwan from an invasion now rings hollow.
And it doesn’t help that we depend on them to buy and hold our debt.
Barring a massive refit from the birds at Davis-Monthan AFB that would be dangerously low. Thanks Barack!
CC
Dang, we should ramp up. Hopefully the Chi-Coms will sell us the necessary electronics.
MacArthur was right.
bmp4L8R
If the chinks lose a thousand pilots, no big deal; they’ll just pump in a thousand more.
It would take 2/3’s of our air force or one MIRV’d Trident missile.
Bflr
It is very likely that in a scenario where China takes Taiwan, you will also have North Korea invading the South, Russia attacking Poland, and a hot mess in the Middle East.