The other, unmentioned difference is capability.
China is not capable of occupying Taiwan.
They can destroy it, but they can’t take it.
I tend to regard China as being part of Taiwan’s territory. The communists are the illegitimate usurpers who would never have taken over without the help of Democrats in America.
China cannot afford to have many young men die in a war when they are facing a very serious demographic crisis. Also, we do not fully know what the pandemic did to their population and country and society as a whole, it is likely that very bad.
ummm, iirc the legitimate elected government fled to Taiwan during the war and you commie bustards took over
Putin felt as though Ukraine was moving further away from Russian influence, so he acted. I'm not sure that a similar situation exists between Taiwan and China. It seems as though the two entities could probably accept the current status in perpetuity.
I thought China was supposed to invade Taiwan at the same time Russia attacked Ukraine. It was predicted here. Did they not get the memo?
Formosa is an island off China's east coast..
Has China in the last 500 years conducted a successful invasion on an island 120 miles away? Or anywhere else?
If Xi wants to invade Taiwan, he has to realize the battle space and order of battle.
The battle space is now everywhere. Media, internet, space, land, sea, air and other ways to kill.
The order of battle? Spies, sabotage, airborne, beach assault who knows?
Does anyone know if Taipei has deliverable nukes?.
Be a shame if the Three Gorges Damn failed.
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I suspect that Taiwan is better armed and has a better military then the Ukraine. Taiwan has 3 time the per capit GDP of China. Taiwan is basically a first world industrial nation. They would not go softly into some Communist night.