Formosa.
I get nervous any time a ship is described as “unsinkable.”
When I watch videos like these, my negative opinions about large centralized states are reinforced. Large states controlled by a few politicians are very dangerous. Even our individual states in the US are too big. The little people would be better off in sovereign states of, say, 200,000 people or less. Such states cannot afford big military budgets and a toxic state would be of limited impact. In a the US, the people would be much better off with 5000 states and a very very small and very weak central government. In this way wars pushed by nationalistic demagogues and psychopaths would be minimized.
The Chinese see a mountain of cash sitting on Taiwan and South Korea. The U.S. needs to go “old school” on them if this happens. China is either going to implode or explode. They have swallowed three poison pills. One not of their doing. First pill: The one child policy. Leads to lots of unmarried men of fighting age. Second pill: Capitalism on the coast to save their economy. Leads to a most relevant threat: A strong and growing middle class. Third pill: A growing underground Christian movement. Changes who is really in charge.
It is not conventional wisdom, but I think at this point in time (the era of President Trump) the odds favor China going to war with India rather than the U.S. Ostensibly to win a little disputed mountain land. In reality it would be used as a safety valve on the Chinese pressure cooker. Each side would have to burn through about 100 Million men. Holy crap Batman! Stability would likely return for a while.
On a separate note: Why “MAD” doesn’t work with China. They see it as population control.