[mrmeyer]

It would escalate to nukes at some point. In college there were a fair number of foreign exchange students from Japan, S. Korea, and China. I had to interview them for a business class and discuss business culture in their countries.

The interview with the Chinese student got ugly when Taiwan came up, and she made the point quite adamantly that the US would not stop China from reclaiming Taiwan. The anger and hatred her eyes were something straight out of Orwell's 2 minute hate in 1984. It was as if a switch had been flipped. Perfectly calm to completely enraged.

[Chickensoup]

cannot blame them. Would you want China protecting Long Island?

[Nervous Tick]

>> It would escalate to nukes at some point.

If I were president, China would be informed in no uncertain terms that *any* military attack on Taiwan would be met with immediate nuclear destruction of every major population center in China.