We thought Ukraine would go down without a whimper. Taiwan will fight.
And they would lose.
I’m assuming that Taiwan already has nukes. And that several of them are at various spots along the base of the Three Gorges Dam. And a big, dirty one several kilometers back from the dam.
Invade, someone turns a key. . . and within an hour, most of China’s industrial heartland is a radioactive hell of ruins destroyed by a near-supersonic wave of live steam. . .