This is more obvious scenario. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-with-china/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-

This is more obvious scenario. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-with-china/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi... Any invasion plans would require a ton of perpetration that would be seen months before. The US Military is a logistic machine. No President would sit by and watch the preparations and do nothing. The death of a US carrier group in defense would ensure that the US would not backdown. Think of the US after Pearl Harbor. It would end with nukes and the US would “win” for some definition of the word win at that point. The Russians would op out hoping to come out the untouched as the US and a China destroy themselves. Because of this a well reasoned response risk wise would be for the US just to go nuclear day one and decapitate China before they saw it coming. That’s far more likely.