Roger A. Shrubber
Well-Known Member
i don't think this war would be anything like the Ukraine war...i highly doubt China is in the same state of decay that corruption put the russians in.I never advocated any of those things, just spelling out the realities of the situation. If China attacked Taiwan and there was war the chip making facilities would be destroyed and some of the workers would relocate to other places where chip fabs are being built now. The reality is we are building chip fabs in American and the EU in anticipation of trouble and moving China out of the supply chains for strategic things, that is policy.
As far as the UN goes China does not have a say in the fate of Taiwan, the people do, just like in Ukraine. If China does invade Taiwan they will feed a lot of fishes by Taiwanese efforts alone destroying most of them at their points of embarkation. The war would end up like Russia's war with Ukraine and have a lot of unintended domestic consequences. They got a taste of what could happen with covid protests and war would mean mass unemployment, they are a government with no real legitimacy and they know it.
they may not have the very best equipment, but what they have isn't ww2 era leftovers they have to clean the rust off of to even recognize.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/taiwan/china
Taiwan has state of the art defenses, but they have a huge coastline to defend, and any landing on any part of it then negates those coastal defenses in that area.
China's navy isn't a joke.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/11/05/yes-china-has-more-warships-than-the-usa-thats-because-chinese-ships-are-small/?sh=2dffbb5f611d
China can and would take Taiwan, is a day or two, if they decided they wanted it enough. the conversation so far didn't even call in China's coastal missile batteries, or their airforce...
Ukraine pulled the biggest motherfucking rabbit in history out of their ass, and the russians are the ones that were responsible for it, through incredible gross incompetence. don't expect China to hand Taiwan the same kind of gift.