Sorry Legion, I have to disagree with you on the invasion front. It's actually pretty easy for them to do with their quasi-military, merchant marine fishing fleet, using reverse Dunkirk tactics.
Throw in some supertankers and cargo ships too, the former of which will be very hard to sink if empty, and just carrying troops and helos, and you've got a heck of an invasion force.
I hope it doesn't come to that.
Yep, same old game but just upping the pressure using their jets. They do the same against the Japanese, as do the Russians too, regularly, e.g. hundreds of times a year.
A pity the Taiwanese can't just blow them out of the sky, but like they say, that would just give China the pretext it wants.
Apparently, over just Friday and Saturday, there were incursions by 37 aircraft, including strategic bombers.
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Perhaps we could send them some of our new-fangled lasers, and claim "salt corrosion" if any holes or cuts result in engines being knocked out, or wings, cockpits, and rudders falling off.
Implausible deniability IS a real thing.
I'd love to see the USN sail within 100 yds. or so of ALL their illegally built and claimed islands in the South China Sea weekly, which we really should start calling the East Vietnamese Sea, just for grins, and to poke the giant panda.
The most effective thing to do would be to try to get most of the world's nations to put a stop to this by canceling all trade with China until they behave reasonably, both on Hong Kong and Taiwan.
If they don't, they should be cut off from the world until there is a regime change, and the institution of democratic freedoms for the Chinese people.
I doubt that will ever happen, unless they overplay their hand very badly, AND even then, some will still do business with them, since they're poorly lead.
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