As for Taiwan, if the US does not prevent China from invading it, the more fools you. Peaceably reuniting with China after a few decades of give and take negotiations in the real world would be one thing. But if China invades, you will suddenly find your standard of living greatly diminished, and they will not stop there, either. They’re already occupying Tibet, enslaving and exterminating Uighers, persecuting Christians and Fulon Gong hobbyists. Once they’ve got Taiwan and all its microchip industry, they will not stop there, and you’d have a hard time stopping them, without any microchips. What would be next? Sri Lanka, which just imploded, South Korea, Japan, Australia? It would start with Taiwan.
The ultimate problem we ran into in South Vietnam, was that the people there
were never as quite as in it to win it as we were. Are the Taiwanese more
dedicated to remaining free? I’m not convinced of it.
I don’t want to see Taiwan taken by force. In all honesty I don’t want them
being absorbed into China at all. One only has to look at Hong Kong to see
why. The treatment of the people of Shanghai is another sterling example.
Then you have to look at what is taking place in the greater western Pacific
region.
The Solomon Islands have decided being in the China sphere of influence is
good. Are other nations going to follow suit?
Is Taiwan worth chancing the loss of 1-3 carriers over?
If we go into this, we will have to humiliate China, because it plans on replacing
us. We will have to defang it. At this point, I don’t see that being possible short
of a nuclear exchange.
Our trade has financed China’s rise to enough of a military power to give us a
major headache.
In the early 90s I predicted our trade with China would result in one thing. Our
youth would have to die as a result.