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[–] palal@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Anyone seriously contemplating whether China would invade Taiwan needs to look at a map of Taiwan. There is no feasible invasion of Taiwan without millions of casualties: it would be a fight infinitely worse than Vietnam. Taiwan is the perfect fortress, with urban combat surrounded by densely-forested mountains and decades of buildup explicitly designed by the KMT to block a Chinese invasion. It's also an island separated by more than a hundred kilometers of open ocean. The KMT understands this, as does the CPC.

The only practical military option available to the CPC is a naval blockade like the US did to Cuba, but the KMT was actively trying to stimulate trade with China in the 2008-2016 period to make a blockade economically infeasible. Today, China imports more goods from Taiwan than from any other country in the world.

All this talk of war is fearmongering and posturing to justify increased defense spending at the cost of a lasting and sustainable peace.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Russia with a population of 140 million is almost at 400k casualties in Ukraine. Do you think China's leader with a population of 1.4 billion would mind 4 million losses?

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a little different invading a flat semi-unprepared country compared to a literal nightmare fortress island that is Taiwan.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

140 million is a little difference to 1.4 billion as well.

We should take it serious, most world leaders besides Biden were saying the same just days before Russia started its invasion.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Imagine if Taiwan invades China instead