I think that the PRC just has to create a credible threat, then offer a carrot, and the Taiwanese will surrender.
It only makes sense. They can’t trust us (the USA) to come to their defense, they don’t have nukes, and, win or lose, much of their nation would likely be wrecked.
On the other hand, if the PRC offers them a deal with some degree of autonomy (like Hong Kong had or has), they might go for it.
“they don’t have nukes,”
I wouldn’t bet that way.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
“They don’t have nukes”
Even though Taiwan was detonating nukes in the early nineteen eighties, they don’t have them now. Evidently.
Just like Israel didn’t have nukes in the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties...then a two hundred warhead arsenal just magically appeared when the Oslo Accords were negotiated in nineteen ninety-three. Somehow.
A post good for a laugh, like the original article.