An invasion of Taiwan would also be much more expensive and difficult than a land invasion, and unprecedented for China to boot. Russia conducted a soft invasio

An invasion of Taiwan would also be much more expensive and difficult than a land invasion, and unprecedented for China to boot. Russia conducted a soft invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and seized Crimea long before 2022. China has also not fought a recent war- even prior to the war in the Donbas, Russia had already invaded Georgia. So it's not necessarily as easy a mistake to make, with different cost-benefit calculations.