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Does China even need to attack Taiwan? Put an embargo on the island. Will US has the political will to directly confront with China? Seems unlikely.
by temp8964 5y ago
Does China even need to attack Taiwan? Put an embargo on the island. Will US has the political will to directly confront with China? Seems unlikely.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoTaiwan is too closely situated to the Ryukyus (and American airforce/navy bases) for China to enforce an embargo on them. Unless China can block off Japan also, then they can't really cut the island off from anyone. If you mean a direct economic embargo, then China loses a lot of its export potential (e.g. via FoxConn) driven by descendants of the mainlanders who fled to Taiwan in 1949. A lot of the factories are owned/managed by such Taiwanese, who are much more in line with a unified China than other Taiwanese, but are still unwilling to become PRC citizens.
- smitty1e 5y agoA naval blockade? That would be tantamount to an attack. After Kabul, whether the feckless U.S. will bother to recall that Taipei is an ally is another question.