So if you just let China take Taiwan, you will have to let them have Midway, Hawaii, etc., and even then you won’t be able to avoid devastating losses. Crocodile. Have some neighbors. Eat me last. If you fight them on Taiwan, you may have devastating losses, alright. But you will be suffering them on your terms, not theirs, and stopping them before their territorial ambitions get any further, and with a committed ally in the Taiwanese, who are defending their home.
Yeah, yeah. Not our circus. I’ve heard it before. It is. America’s circus, America’s monkeys. Too late to stick your heads in the sand and tell the world to ‘go ‘way’ or let the bully eat your lunch.
That's quite a leap.
Taiwanese are committed, but they are a minority in their own country. About a third of the population consider themselves Chinese, not Taiwanese.
That’s part of the reason they haven’t declared independence.