“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.
I remember reading not to long ago a report or article
by a Chi-Comm academic claiming that Vladivostok belonged
to the Chinese in the past and that China will eventually
eventually take it back. This article would not have been
allowed to be published without the official permission
of the Chi-Comm government.
I have no doubt that the Chi-Comms are eyeing Russian territory.
The performance of the Russian military in Ukraine must be
encouraging to China.