If I ping you about that it will mostly likely be from FL250 overhead, staging out of Korea.... and I don't think it'll ever happen. The PLA will have to invent teleportation before they take Taiwan. The Taiwan straits are protected by distance, lack of amphibs on the PLA's part, and the WHOLE FREAKIN' USN submarine force if needed. It looks easy on paper, but a LARGE scale amphib operation of this magnitude, fighting the USN attack boats and the USAF tac/bomber forces is currently impossible. Period. The only prayer would be if the US chose NOT to defend Taiwan.
American intelligence agencies have revealed a huge build-up in Chinese assault forces - apparently designed to invade Taiwan - as China's leaders made new overtures for a peaceful agreement with the island republic.
US officials said China was racing to complete 23 amphibious ships able to ferry tanks and troops across the 160-kilometre-wide Taiwan Strait and 13 submarines to protect them, according to a New York Times report.
"Their amphibious assault shipbuilding alone equals the entire US Navy shipbuilding since 2002," one official said.