Cyber.
Warfare.
or
Electronic.
Blitzkrieg.
Think of The Art of War or Oriental philosophy in general -- lie about your intentions, soft-pedal your strengths, and attack in a way that you've won the war without having to risk open battle.
America's military and economic strength is predicated on its 'wiredness'.
If they disable our C-and-C (by denying us the ability to *communicate*) they can just waltz in and *take* Taiwan.
And put an end to the impression of American invulnerability.
Couple that with judiciously chosen sabotage and/or suicide attacks (say of key personnel at our Clintonized national labs), and the hollowing out of our infrastructure (we *import* apples from China!!? What happened to the state of Washington), and China sees itself as invincible -- they have us on manufacturing, technology, population, and (for Taiwan) short supply lines.
IF this happens, I hope President Thompson has the balls to summarily execute a couple dozen CEOs for treason.
(Please note that the 'common sense' punishment for those CEOs, the bill of attainder, is explicitly unconstitutional -- which is why all the Dems were pushing for 'censure plus' for Bill Clinton. Lying scum.)
Cheers!
Seems unlikely that President Romney or McCain would do anything. Romney has his hands dirty with complicity... Bain Financial and Huwai Technology....and McCain would regard it as "torture" or some other damn weasel evasion.