What is you all's opinion on Taiwan being able to hold off an invasion? Will they immediately collapse and roll over?
Im sure the Taiwanese would kill many many invading Chinese. But eventually they would simply be overwhelmed by numbers.
Asked since 1949: “Can the dragon swim?”
The Red Chinese will not take the Republic of China while President Trump is in office.
If Democrats control Washington D.C. the ROC is endangered - but then, aren't we all.
That would have occurred during the Obama era, not now. ☺
Like I mentioned in a thread about Australia fending off China....get bio-weapons. Then they can inform China privately that if they are invaded it will be the end of China. Don’t need missiles or an army.
The U.S. doesn’t need a simulated invasion for our troops to practice repelling, the actual invasion of our southern border could provide all the training and exercise needed if they were properly mobilized.
China isnt going to invade Tiawan militarily.
They're not stupid.
The Taiwanese can hold them off. Been to CKS airport many times on route to Philippines, HK, SE Asia etc, and ALL security guys are armed to the teeth. The best time they could have done it was when obamatard was president but they didnt.
The Chinks know we wont just stand idly by like obamatard when Russia took the other countries by force. I read years ago they got mines for the sea to take out the ships.
Taiwan needs to learn from the Swiss. Send every discharged conscript home with his rifle and ammunition. Bring them back once a year for range time and checking.
Even the Chinese Communists would think twice about invading if they knew they faced 2-3 million armed citizens.
I think Taiwan would be a tough nut to crack.
Taiwan has become more and more of an asset to China over the last two decades.
It would be stupid to destroy that asset.
The Chinese tend to be fairly smart... But they have made many bad decisions in the past.
In the early eighties, Taiwan was test detonating their emerging nuclear arsenal at sea. This rattled the mainland communists, and Reagan negotiated a cessation of provocative nuclear preparations. The detonation ceased.
The cessation didn't come about because Taiwan abandoned their plan of defense. It came about because the United States provided Taiwan with tested designs.
This load of horse manure is of the same stripe as similar pieces written about Israel in the sixties and seventies when we were pretending the world didn't know Israel was the eight hundred pound nuclear gorilla of the middle east.
You asked my opinion, there it is, and there is why.
Semper Fidelis.
I think that depends on the size & scope of the invasion force.
If they require everyone to own a lethal weapon, it would greatly minimize China’s invasion.
China ain’t invading shit
We’ll cut off trade and destroy their economy in 10 minutes
And furthermore. We can nuke them to smithereens as well
They love to bluster and act tough and lie cheat lie cheat steal
But that ain’t it in realpolitik
Which this prez has down
An attempted Chinese invasion of Taiwan would need to reckon not just with Taiwan’s own capability, but also the probable reactions of Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Australia, etc., not to mention the United States.
An invasion would require a large number of heavy cargo ships. You cannot conquer a nation with only air power. Taiwans subs would likely take most of the transports out.