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Yeah, I mean, North Korea and South Korea claim the same territory but it would still be very bad for NK to conquer SK since NK is a totalitarian dictatorship and SK is not. Same logic applies to China conquering Taiwan. Taiwan is much freer than China is, after all. China, meanwhile, has a...

Taiwan's official name is the Republic of China. It's Chiang Kai-shek's government in exile. They're the descendants of the people who fought Mao and his Communists during the Chinese Civil War. Taiwan still technically claims all of China (and Mongolia) for itself even nowadays...

This is actually why I view a Chinese invasion of Taiwan as being slightly/marginally more justified than a Russian invasion of Ukraine. As in, still not very justified at all, of course, but still a tiny bit more justified than what Russia is currently doing: Specifically, with China and...

Agreed. Also, as a side note, it's pretty cool that Taiwan is showing us what a pro-Western version of China can look like, simply on a smaller scale. Similar to the comparison between West vs. East Germany, North vs. South Korea, and Ukraine vs. Russia/Belarus.

Canada has enough cognitive elites already lol! :D

Yeah, that makes sense, though I think that the US and Western countries would be more lucrative destinations for them. Still, resettling in Thailand or Malaysia or Indonesia won't be the end of the world for them if they will want to flee China--if they're actually allowed to flee China by the...

How many Taiwanese do you think that the US would be able to successfully get out of Taiwan in a mass evacuation if it was losing this war?

But at least we would get a lot of Taiwanese refugees moving over here and bringing their excellent cuisine, cute Asian waifus, and high-tech over here, right? ;)

You mean similar to how Israel sent ground troops to Lebanon in 2006 to fight Hezbollah instead of doing it exclusively by sea and air? This little stunt on Israel's part cost a whopping 121 Israeli soldiers' lives in that war! :(

A short war and a decisive US victory?

Do you think that the US would actually be willing to go to war with China over Taiwan? The question here is self-explanatory. On the one hand, the US has been de facto defending Taiwan for over 70 years and has a long history of directly participating in Asian Wars: -The Asian theater of the...