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>It would be smarter to let HK persist to convince Taiwan there is no threat to re-unification so that they move towards annexation willingly. It's a display o
by hh3k0 4y ago
>It would be smarter to let HK persist to convince Taiwan there is no threat to re-unification so that they move towards annexation willingly.
It's a display of strength, in my opinion. "Struggle all you want, but in the end we will have our way with you." I'm not a geopolitical expert or anything but I fully expect China to take Taiwan by force while the West is busy with Russia. I'm fairly certain that we couldn't effectively sanction both China _and_ Russia
- bobthepanda 4y agoIf it did happen, it'd probably be the worst war we've seen, full stop. The US is still giving out Purple Hearts medals meant for the land invasion of Japan, which was expected to be horrific in terms of casualties due to the terrain. In this context, the US actually investigated and totally gave up on the idea of a land invasion of Taiwan, because the geography is so much worse; there are very few flat beaches from which to do an amphibious D-day style landing, and all of them are a few km away from mountains from which to rain down artillery.
- CorrectHorseBat 4y agoI can't imagine it going any better than Russia's invasion. Taiwan is all mountains, there's a sea in between with 13 beaches where they can land and China's military has no experience whatsoever. It would literally be shooting fish in a barrel for the Taiwanese army.