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I'm just curious if this is true if you back china into a corner. I'd imagine they'd take over taiwan and south korea? Is our tech sector really immune from thi

• stickfigure 5y ago
  Hypothetical military campaigns against Taiwan or South Korea would be much more difficult than what's going on in Ukraine right now. Russia can drive tanks into Ukraine from three sides. Taiwan and Korea would require naval battles in oceans full of submarines. Large-scale amphibious assaults were incredibly precarious in the era before AWACS and spy satellites. Now they're probably impossible against a modern adversary. Also - as someone else mentioned - China doesn't want to be a pariah state.
  • hollerith 5y ago
    >China doesn't want to be a pariah state. Agreed. In particular, they rely on international trade to keep the economic prospects of their young men rosy enough that they won't participate in huge riots that bring down the government, which is the historical fate of most governments of China.
  • tekknik 5y ago
    > Large-scale amphibious assaults were incredibly precarious in the era before AWACS and spy satellites. Now they're probably impossible against a modern adversary. This is quite a bit naive. Do you not think ships are capable of planning their movements around satellites? Do you know how fast a ship can leave a US port and dock up in an Asian port (ships have an unclassified, and a classified speed)? Are there no other methods of camouflage that can be employed to hide from a satellite when it is over you? You don’t think it’s possible because how it’s done has layers upon layers of classification walls.