No one sane wants a war over Taiwan, and it seems Xi's rivals are the ones trying to push for war and trying to back him into a corner.It is.
You only want this to be true because you dint want it
That isnt how it is.....
Xi wants to be greater then Mao.
Reunite Taiwan would make him greater.all he has to do to be greater then him are.
No cultural revolution, no great leap forward.
Reunion with Taiwan means he gets to deal with pacifying a population that's much feistier and better armed than Hong Kong's was when they got that back from the UK when the 99-year lease of Hong Kong expired.Reunite Taiwan would make him greater.
That alone is what is needed to put him ahead. The people can claim Mao set forth the CCP to do the other aspectsof it,
I don't think you understand.Reunion with Taiwan means he gets to deal with pacifying a population that's much feistier and better armed than Hong Kong's was when they got that back from the UK when the 99-year lease of Hong Kong expired.
Tawain has four Kidd-class destroyers. Those are basically Tico's minus the Aegis Defense System because they were built before the Tico's were and are kinda/sorta the first answer to the question of "What would a Spruance-class destroyer be if it was optimized for area air defense instead of anti-submarine warfare?"
Reunion with Taiwan means he gets to deal with pacifying a population that's much feistier and better armed than Hong Kong's was when they got that back from the UK when the 99-year lease of Hong Kong expired.
Tawain has four Kidd-class destroyers. Those are basically Tico's minus the Aegis Defense System because they were built before the Tico's were and are kinda/sorta the first answer to the question of "What would a Spruance-class destroyer be if it was optimized for area air defense instead of anti-submarine warfare?"
If China goes after Taiwan the PLAN won't be facing just Taiwan. They'll be facing practically everyone else they've irritated too.I'm not quite sure what your arguing? 4 40 year old Destroyers is not a particularly impressive force, especially in comparison to the Chinese navy: depending on how aggressive the Chinese Carrier production is and if they stay on schedule, China is a couple of years from matching the number of destroyers Tiawan has with its carrier hulls.
Looking at the Wiki, the Taiwanese seem to have about 130,000 tons of surface capital ships. The Chinese have a 135,000 tons of displacement in the already deployed Carriers. Destroyers and Frigates add an additional 450,000 ish tons of displacement. So, in surface capital ships, Taiwan is out massed about 5-1 in tonnage.
If they keep to their current fleet building plans and the type 4 Carrier works out, the Chinese will be building 100,000 ton nuclear super carriers around 2030. If they build 4 as they claim, those 4 ships alone would mass some 110,000 t each, and those three ships alone would outmass the Taiwanese fleet.
India is pissed as hell about covid and unlike our media theirs has not cucked out to China.If China goes after Taiwan the PLAN won't be facing just Taiwan. They'll be facing practically everyone else they've irritated too.
Even if the US stays out of it Japan and South Korea most definitely won't. India along with countries in SE Asia like Vietnam also have long-standing issues with China and don't want to be next.
They're not going to stay out of it and India also has both nukes and SSBNs.
EDIT: India could probably nuke every major
Chinese city within an hour if they were pushed or want to.
India also has a large enough population that China can't just throw bodies into the meatgrinder with the expectation that Chinese manpower reserves will outlast theirs.India is pissed as hell about covid and unlike our media theirs has not cucked out to China.
Against the US China has a 4.2:1 manpower advantage and every other country except India is even more outnumbered. Against India it's almost even.
Korea was the closest China got to use that tactic, and even then it was with the US not taking them serious.If all there was to war was throwing masses of conscripts at each other across a mutual border immediately adjacent to major rail lines, that would matter a lot more.
As it is, warfare very much is not like that.
Korea was the closest China got to use that tactic, and even then it was with the US not taking them serious.
That tactic doesn't work in this day and age for a variety of reasons.
And they could never get that many in Taiwan
By the time they got all their marines on the shore, they would never be able to bring their army ashore with how contested things would beNot 'never,' but it would be completely dependent upon their enemies screwing up by the numbers for weeks, if not months, on end.
Basically 'If Japan, Vietnam, the US, and India are all too incompetent to even make the effort to stop us,' is the kind of level of outcome they'd need to get to unlimited en-masse landings on Taiwan. Even then, with the stuff we're selling to Taiwan now, they might not be able to pull the landings off.
You forgot to take into account the hundred billion ton displacement that is Taiwan itself...I'm not quite sure what your arguing? 4 40 year old Destroyers is not a particularly impressive force, especially in comparison to the Chinese navy: depending on how aggressive the Chinese Carrier production is and if they stay on schedule, China is a couple of years from matching the number of destroyers Tiawan has with its carrier hulls.
Looking at the Wiki, the Taiwanese seem to have about 130,000 tons of surface capital ships. The Chinese have a 135,000 tons of displacement in the already deployed Carriers. Destroyers and Frigates add an additional 450,000 ish tons of displacement. So, in surface capital ships, Taiwan is out massed about 5-1 in tonnage.
If they keep to their current fleet building plans and the type 4 Carrier works out, the Chinese will be building 100,000 ton nuclear super carriers around 2030. If they build 4 as they claim, those 4 ships alone would mass some 110,000 t each, and those three ships alone would outmass the Taiwanese fleet.
If all there was to war was throwing masses of conscripts at each other across a mutual border immediately adjacent to major rail lines, that would matter a lot more.
As it is, warfare very much is not like that.
The tip of the spear has a long shaft. Breaking the shaft is a very effective way of neutralizing a spear so that you don't have to defend against the tip.Then its a very good thing that most of china's oil has to go past india in very slow containor ships isnt it?
Daily Wire said:
- Marriott International issued a profuse apology in 2018 after Chinese authorities shut down its booking website over an online questionnaire that listed Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as countries, rather than regions of China.
- "We do not support separatist groups that subvert the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China," the statement said.
- Also in 2018, Marriott fired a U.S.-based employee who used a company Twitter account to like a post by a pro-Tibet group.