Of course Chinese casualties matter. But why do you think a few smuggled-in nukes going to change that materially? What do you propose to do with the nukes? How

Of course Chinese casualties matter. But why do you think a few smuggled-in nukes going to change that materially? What do you propose to do with the nukes? How many warheads do you propose to need to do it? > being a fairly calculated player I believe that there exists some threshold of pain that even china would think twice before shrugging it off. This is not in doubt. It just that nukes are not magic. They are not an automatic “you won” card. The most sensible thing I can think of with nukes regarding the protection of Taiwan is to hit Chinese deep sea harbours. If you can distrupt enough of them then maybe they can’t board their troops. But that is a lot of warheads, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they can restore some semblance of operations even in a nuked harbour.