They could easily move a couple of million troops across a 90 mile straight. China has so many small boats, trawlers, fishing craft, freighters. It would be no problem at all. Just simply send a flotilla swarming that way. In six hours the whole thing would be over. I want does not have the combat power to stop the swarm because they would be fully engaged with the Chinese Navy. The US Navy can’t get within 500 miles of the place without getting lit up by Chinese missiles. PLAF fighters and bombers could do out and back sorties from the mainland effortlessly.
China could easily see is Taiwan on any given day. The only thing stopping them from doing it is a credible nuclear threat. And political financial considerations. Nobody believes America will use nuclear weapons anymore, so that one’s gone. Nobody seriously believes Biden would do anything to stop China. So it’s coming.
Also, China is not stupid. They won’t just wake up and do it some morning out of the blue. Just like BLM and antifa riots in America, china will foment unrest of some sort in Taiwan and then cast their invasion as a rescue mission, reestablishing stability.
It would have to be a D Day scale, and would have to cross more water.
When they arrived they would be greeted by a million rifles.
They don’t have the means. If they did, they would have done it already.
Astute post.
Rhine River barges. Operation Sea Rion.