So - all this huff and guff... but if China really wanted to - they would squash Taiwan like a gnat...
RE: Taiwanese television broadcast a video on Friday of a military exercise simulating the island coming under attack.
Simulations are useful, but there is no substitute for real life experience.
Frankly I just hope that the Taiwanese would be able to pop off the nukes they supposedly dont have before getting crushed
China would win, but it would be a nasty fight. China wants the island with it’s people and resources, just nuking it would not serve their interests.
By both a “face” issue and a force issue, they would have to take it intact, and the Taiwanese have a lot of nasty surprises for air and naval craft approaching the island.
On paper it would seem so however I lived in Taiwan while I was in High School and the geography of Taiwan is such that China’s options are limited in respect to an amphibious invasion which greatly allows Taiwan to concentrate her defenses.
Sort of like they did Viet Nam in 1979?
And in doing so their already shaky international standing would hit rock bottom.
No one in their neighborhood trusts the Chi-coms already.
Chi-coms economy is starting to get shaky and the chi-com leaders are simply trying to change the subject.