[John H K]

The Taiwan military can withstand the barrages, but her civil population has inadequate Civil Defence measures. Even if Taiwan can discourage China from invasion, her civil population, economy and etc will take major damage

Throughout history the effect of semi-accurate convetional bombardment on civilian morale and economic production has consistently been wildly overestimated. In 1944 German military production INCREASED under massive firebomb attacks at night from the British and American attempts at pinpoint bombing by day, amounts of ordnance that the Chinese couldn't even begin to approach by simply lobbing conventional missles into Taiwan.

[GOP_1900AD]

However the effects of complete vaporization by nuclear warheads is undeniable. Removal. The only question is, what is to be removed.