// As for Taiwan, an invasion...even without outside intervention...is more than China’s limited power projection capability and expertise is able to pull off without unacceptable losses.\\
Yeah, and those crosseyed slanteyed yellow monkeys the Japs could and would NEVER attack Pearl Harbour.
Update your paradigm, old timer.
“Yeah, and those crosseyed slanteyed yellow monkeys the Japs could and would NEVER attack Pearl Harbour.”
Non sequitur.
If it’s your contention that China would attack US bases, don’t you also believe the result would be massive retaliation?
Do you believe that China believes they could win an all out war with the US? Do YOU believe they could?
All scenarios in the war games never include the US striking mainland China, but they almost all include China striking US bases west of Pearl Harbor.
China could not survive an all out war with the US Pacific Fleet AND the US Air Force at the same time. And if they want to go nuke, they lose worse.