More worrisome than the Tic-Tac is the thought that Red Chinese subs could get so close undetected.
Taiwan has no oil.
There is no need for Chinese troops to land on Taiwan. They need only embargo oil tankers. The US will certainly object and maybe try to escort tankers, but hypersonics can hit either the tankers or more likely the ports.
No oil means food doesn’t move from warehouse to shelves to mouths.
The only impediment to this is all military senior officers would like to achieve immortality by leading huge armies in land battles that will be recorded forever. But warfare need no longer look like that.
Taiwan starves? Taiwan surrenders.
So stop with this silliness about invading Taiwan. There is no need for this.
every inch of the east coast is monitored with bouys and underwater drones... nothing moves without us knowing it...