they could invade Taiwan?
And Hold it?
ROTFLMAO!!!
How pray could they do that? We have given Aegis class Destoyers and Taiwan is a part of USMJC under a peace treaty with Japan.
Further, they no ability to control sea. We own Sea, Air and Land.
Our numbers are superior in strength for accuracy and coordination.
They have no, zero, appreciably effective battle group and even if they did, they would have to contend our surface ships, Carriers and Air to Air or Air to ground capabilities.
Not going to happen.
This their pipe dream to get back a dead guy named Chaing Ki Check.
They can work all they want but if they can’t even make a decent knock off of a car, their sea going strength is in barges and shipping vessels.
Hardly the vessels needed to control a football size territory on the sea.
They have worked to build transports capable of crossing the Taiwan Straits. What is it? 90 Miles? You don’t need a bluewater navy for that. They have missiles capable of obliterating Taiwan, and their version of Exocet “ship killer” missiles that can sink a Carrier. It wouldn’t take much to invade Taiwan and once there it would be difficult to dislodge them.
They could do it...if a U.S. President chose to let them.
No mentioning names, now...
I really have to argue with you on this. I believe that China may not constitute a global strategic threat at this moment, but is a regional power that has enough capability to strike across to Taiwan. Give them twenty five more years and they will have the strategic capability to challenge the USA, even less time if we don’t get our economic and military house in order. People in the west laughed at Japan as a power until the 1905 war she had with Russia. She trounced the Tsar’s forces and was hitting us at Pearl Harbor thirty six years later.
You assume that an Obama administration will go to war to defend Taiwan (treaty or no treaty).
Yes, we have the physical ability to devastate China. Do we have the WILL?