"A Chinese Invasion Of Taiwan Will Not Be An Easy Task" Topic

"Roaring out of the sky, an F-16V fighter jet lands smoothly to rearm and refuel on an unremarkable freeway in rural Taiwan, surrounded by rice paddies.

In different circumstances, this could be alarming sight. Taiwan's fighter pilots are trained to land on freeways between sorties in case all of the island's airports have been occupied or destroyed by an invasion.

Luckily, this was a training exercise…."

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Yes, it would be difficult, but not as bad as some people try to indicate, I suspect, especially if using their "merchant fleet", cargo ships and tankers to help with amphibious landings and support, and/or air drops of paratroopers, weapons, ammo, and other supplies.

It will be a lot simpler, if much more time-consuming, to further develop economic ties between the two to the point that Taiwan cannot survive without the Mainland.

I figure it will take about 40 years.

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Which is probably their actual plan, at least originally, but then they started getting their populace all hopped up on faux pop-nationalism, Putin-style, to divert everyone from the fact that the Party isn't really communist as such and has largely flushed the authority that came from that ideology down the toilet, which is fine until someone in power drinks their own cool-aid or is forced to do so by public pressure…

"(The Chinese Communist Party has) largely flushed the authority that came from (Communism) down the toilet"

Tell that to non Han Chinese, tell it to Tibet. Hell tell it to anyone that questions the party, or even tries to google the Tianaman square massacre and the nationwide massacres at the same time. Tell it to the people in the re-education camps. Tell it to the Chinese foreign students who are monitored for signs of disloyalty by government agents overseas. I could go on..

Never said they were not a nasty authoritarian one-party state or carrying out what effectively amounts to cultural genocide on the fringe ethnicities of the country or engaged in blatant neo-colonialism / imperialism.

I just hope that the rather frightening social engineering experiment that they're engaged in bites them in the ass – preferably before group-think poison affects the collective mind of the Chinese people to the point where they do think that attacking Taiwan or anywhere else for that matter is good idea.

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