multiple bttt
I don’t know anything about military affairs, we have lots of experts here.
But I read a lot. If I was going to do Taiwan (and they are going to do Taiwan) - I would consider a multi-modality attack to disable or interfere with a possible US response - without killing any civilians.
EMP + ballons carrying electronic packages to block our comms would do the trick. If those ballon payloads are more sophisticated than anything we can do - and they may be - then the EMP may not even be necessary.
I’m going to miss the carriers, though.