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Ukraine is flat-easy to attack. Taiwan. Start with air assaults and finding a way to take out communications, satellites and cell towers. Amphibious attacks are too vulnerable.
Something tells me a blockade will start it up. Taiwan has the money and technology to fight. China can waste a million men and it won’t matter. Might as well get it over with.
China can waste a million men and it won’t matter.
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That is the perception in the West. In China its a different matter. China’s population seems to have taken a drastic nose dive from an estimated 1.4 billion to 500-700 million. No one can say why - lots of speculation. A million dead troops would have a huge impact.
Mostly because there are no social services in China - families depend on their men to supply income, the loss of which would make millions homeless, destitute and street beggars ( which BTW have completely disappeared, according to reports ).
Such civil and social upheaval would directly threaten the CCP and its rule. The central Party rule is: nothing is allowed to threaten the Party.
So not only will China not lose a million men, it will not invade either. It will just continue to bluff, threaten, and issue strong propaganda statements in its multi-billion dollar worldwide propaganda campaign.