What you said.
Overt aggression toward any enemy with the means to reciprocate just isn’t their style, especially considering that a generation or two of economic and political subversion and intimidation will work better.
China always takes the long view.
“Overt aggression toward any enemy with the means to reciprocate just isn’t their style, especially considering that a generation or two of economic and political subversion and intimidation will work better.
China always takes the long view.”
I heard an interesting counter to that the other day (maybe BBC). The point was that Taiwan is not Hong Kong and as time passes the people of Taiwan identify less as being Chinese and more being a separate nation and people. Nearly all the old Nationalist who fled there are dead, the current population has less and less thought of China as home. The longer the wait the harder for the CCP to assimilate the population.