The PLA is clearly getting ready for an invasion of Taiwan, but my guess is they’ll hold off until they can extend their reach a little further in the Pacific and wait for the US Navy to finish falling apart, which it’s doing a good job of all by itself.
“The PLA is clearly getting ready for an invasion of Taiwan”
China lacks the amphibious capability to invade a heavily defended and highly motivated Taiwan. They’re planning to build Yuzhao and Yushen amphibious support ships in the future but what’s lacking is any kind of landing craft capability sufficient to land infantry and armor on the beaches of Formosa. Their current collection of landing craft are 1950’s vintage boats copied from WW2 American boats that were captured in Korea. Those boats looked nice in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ but they’re useless against Taiwan.
Nope, if China is mobilizing for a war *right now* then they could only be mobilizing for a land war.