China can lose 80 million people and barely blink. How many can Taiwan lose?
Careful now. When I started pointing that stuff out, my post got deleted. These military cheerleaders are thin skinned.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4002437/posts?page=50#50
It’s not about competing body counts, it’s about applying pain at the most vulnerable points to bring down the communist regime. Three Gorges Dam is but one of many asymmetrical pain points that a nuclear Taiwan could hit, that would keep the regime so busy they couldn’t effectively continue a campaign against Taiwan. Frankly, I think the CCP has been making a huge mistake recently by not only threatening Taiwan, but also Australia, India, Japan, etc. (as well as the U.S., of course). If China did move against Taiwan, or especially if they did that in concert with some kind of belligerence toward any of these other countries, they would have their hands full in a hurry.
So many people think China is somehow this invincible 800 pound gorilla, which they are not even on their best day, but they would have no chance if they pissed off everyone else at once. Yet they seem determined to do just that. Maybe they think Russia will back them up, but I really doubt that would happen.