The brute fact constraining the PRC’s ambitions in that direction is that mass movement of troops by sea is risky and difficult. I recently did the math on Chinese sealift craft and despite an expensive buildup since the 1980s they don’t have the capacity to move even a single division-sized formation over ocean. Ain’t nobody going to take Taiwan with one division, they’ve has too much time to prepare and fortify over the last 60 years.
The PRC leadership is evil and ruthless, but it’s also cautious and historically literate and can read maps. Accordingly, the People’s Liberation Army is designed not to take territory but to hold the territory the PRC already has. Its mission is not conquest but the suppression of regional warlordism inside China itself. The capability for the PLA to wage serious expeditionary warfare doesn’t exist, and can’t be built in the near-term future.
The PRC doesn't need to conquer Taiwan. Kung Flu or a virus like it but more virulent will do it for them. That is one of the reasons it was designed for.
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The Chinese are already at war with us....this virus is the latest salvo in that war. They aren't going to be fighting conventionally. They NEED our land and resources....remember, there is a close to TWO BILLION Chinese and they are running out of resources for that mass of flesh. So they are going to engage in every form of warfare EXCEPT open conflict. Espionage...corporate and political, cyberwarfare, economic warfare, propaganda, biowarfare....ALL tools they are using. And 99.9% of Americans are clueless to this fact.
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