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Taiwan Studies Ukraine War for Own Battle Strategy With China
Reuters via NDTV ^ | Mar 9, 2022

Posted on 03/09/2022 11:30:13 AM PST by Conservat1

Ukraine has a long land border with Russia.

Taipei:  Taiwan's military strategists have been studying Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the country's resistance, for the island's own battle strategy in the event its giant neighbour China ever makes good on its threat to take them by force. While Taiwan's government has not reported any unusual activity by the military in China, which views the island as its own territory, Taipei has raised its alert level. Russia's use of precision missiles, as well as Ukraine's tactically well thought through resistance despite being outmanned and outgunned, are being carefully watched in security circles in Taiwan, whose own forces are likewise dwarfed by China's.

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KEYWORDS: china; taiwan; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/09/2022 11:30:13 AM PST by Conservat1
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Taiwan better be taking notes, because we sure as Hell know China is.


2 posted on 03/09/2022 11:32:28 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Conservat1

Give every person a good rifle and train them in marksmanship and sniper techniques. Make sure there is a rifle behind every blade of grass.


3 posted on 03/09/2022 11:33:21 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Evidently


4 posted on 03/09/2022 11:33:25 AM PST by Conservat1
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Total apples and oranges—wildly different geography and logistics.


5 posted on 03/09/2022 11:34:15 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Conservat1
I suspect that the Taiwanese leaders...and citizens...know that when the invasion comes the invaders won't pull any punches.They will kill every resident and destroy every building if necessary. Why? Because that's what Mao would have wanted.
6 posted on 03/09/2022 11:36:00 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Conservat1

China will have to take control of critical facilities. Most likely they’ll use helicopters to insert troops.

Taiwan should start stockpiling manpads, training people and be on the alert for an first attempt.


7 posted on 03/09/2022 11:39:33 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: meatloaf

There is a lot of debate about whether and to what extent (non nuclear) EMP actually works, but if the Chinese has a way to do it, I would expect that to be their first move.

If it failed they could always stop operations at that point.


8 posted on 03/09/2022 11:41:52 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Conservat1

First China has to pry its troops from the arms of their mothers.


9 posted on 03/09/2022 11:42:04 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political leeft is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Better have plenty of good surface to air missiles, train every able body to use one…plus rifle and ammo for every able body…


10 posted on 03/09/2022 11:43:10 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: BBQToadRibs2

They will just surrender. They know they aren’t getting any support from US now.


11 posted on 03/09/2022 11:44:10 AM PST by lodi90
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from my home page

There are some updated conversations regarding the sampan civilian navy internal migration approach.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3979585/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4002096/posts?page=58#58

The chinese will send a sampan navy with 10million “internal migration” civilians armed with CNN uplinks, cameras, and bullhorns. When they get mowed down by our side, the resulting negative PR will be amplified by the chinese knocking out 2 of our aircraft carriers in the blockade with their hypersonic ICBM thermally guided antiship missiles.

America will luze stomach for the fight over what it already calls an internal province of China. Taiwan has never declared independence.

About a third of civilians in Taiwan are ethnic Chinese and maybe only half of them have loyalties and fifth column tendencies towards communist China. They have hundreds of thousands of cargo ships they can fill with civilians armed with cameras, CNN uplinks, and bullhorns.

The resultant slaughter will be live on CNN and the PR backlash will be enough to let China walk right back into their own internal (never did declare independence) province. If we blockade them, they’ll lob thermal-capable antiship ICBM missiles at our aircraft carriers and CNN will record them sinking to the bottom of the sea with the resultant nuclear plume.

America will luze stomach for the fight after luzing a couple $Trillion in carriers and tens of thousands of men in one afternoon, all seen on CNN, with our recourse being... to slaughter civilians. China has all the cards, they just have to lay them down on the table at this point.

And when it’s all over but the shouting, the RINOs and GOPes and democraps will be handwringing, hoping for a quick way to order chinese chips & electronics from Amazon. The chinese want the continued business of globalists so it’ll all be “can’t we just get along” and “water under the bridge” as soon as China is in charge and chips are shipping.


12 posted on 03/09/2022 11:48:37 AM PST by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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If China is to invade Taiwan, they have to really start massing troops and military hardware in Fujian Province in a big, big, way. That hasn’t happened, yet. And they would immediately close off Fuzhou and Xiamen to foreigners, too.


13 posted on 03/09/2022 11:49:18 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Conservat1

China would be more ruthless than Russia if need be. They don’t to worry about the media and all that sanctions stuff. They are on the same team


14 posted on 03/09/2022 11:50:21 AM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: lodi90

They WILL GET HELP—From Japan. Still, I wonder if Russia will help counter Japan if China Moves on Taiwan?


15 posted on 03/09/2022 11:52:35 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: MtnClimber
Give every person a good rifle and train them in marksmanship and sniper techniques. Make sure there is a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Taiwan has developed a very nice country and stable society. But they are still chinese, confucian in their outlook and also modern day progressives-socialist. They control guns very strictly.

I've been told they have a program where retired army will be given rifles in the event of conflict, but I don't know details.

but they certainly are not taking the Swiss approach of sending every man home, after his military service, with a rifle, ammo and a locker. They should.

16 posted on 03/09/2022 11:54:58 AM PST by PGR88
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If they have not taken the Swiss approach, then they deserve a Darwin Award


17 posted on 03/09/2022 11:57:21 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

China will just offer to buy Taiwan with our money. The other option on the table is being destroyed Ukraine style. They’ll take the cash.


18 posted on 03/09/2022 11:58:45 AM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

I agree.


19 posted on 03/09/2022 12:04:56 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Conservat1

If the Chinese want to Taiwan on, they should know there’ll be hell Taipei.


20 posted on 03/09/2022 12:13:29 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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