There is a saying in my language: "After the battle, everybody is a general". But in this comment section you can substitute it with "before battle". :D
It would be funny if China just shower Taiwan with long range missiles for 3 days straight and Taiwan just surrender before the US can send their first gun
@@youarebeingtrolled6954they also don't realize that Japan literally used Taiwan as a staging ground where they then attacked China during ww2. This is why many Chinese in the mainland disliked Taiwan.
It’s crazy that in his age he’s that dialed into modern strategy… that guy has been around 3 times as long as me, but only has so much knowledge it’s incredible.
Hey, technically, the civil war started in 1946 didn't end, there wasn't a ceasefire agreement, the civil war was simply paused by the Korean War and Korean War didn't end either.
I really agree. Distributed network warfare demands many more distributable, expendable and networkable delivery systems that can easily pick up and move to different locations.
They need to do everything because no matter how much they distribute, they are all on the island. Which is why in order to survive the initial surprise attack, they need to keep forces outside of Taiwan, North, South and East of Taiwan. China will probably also use swarms of helicopters and planes to get lots of people there quickly.
@@dtsai you're not wrong. I think a break-in defense is a great idea in this situation... It is often a great tactical strategy, but in this case especially, good call.
I think they’re wrong about trying to have A2AD in the ocean though. The PLA Navy far outguns the Taiwanese, trying to fight at sea would be disastrous for Taiwan. Instead they’re better off using the defence advantage at the shoreline and using their ships to secure routes of resupply and reinforcement. D-Day showed us just how costly opposed amphibious landings can be. A relatively small defending force can hold up and damage a much larger one with massive consequences. Furthermore, D-Day came when theLuftwaffe was nearly nonexistent as a fighting force. Provided that Taiwan could preserve its air forces in the opening hours of the attack, they could rain air power down on the landing zones with devastating effect and quick turn around while the PLAA and PLAN would be relying on carrier and mainland based sorties for air cover.
I actually disagree. An invasion is not even close to being possible and both sides know this. Russia couldn't cross rivers. 100 miles of ocean is a death sentence. There is no way to land ships against modern anti ship missiles. If China was serious about invasion they would be building a much more massive like 20x larger helicopter fleet to transport troops. But they are building a generally useful military not one optimized for invasion. Far more likely is a blockaid and ballistic missile attacks until Taiwan gives up. And countering this requires symmetrical assets not asymmetric ones. This is why Taiwan has moved towards consentrating on their own ability to threaten the Chinese mainland. It is a more effective deterrent. Amphibious landings against modern weapons are a joke proposition.
@@vlhc4642Worry about both. But in the end, ship to shore will be what determines everything. Bombing campaigns rarely ever force an enemy into submission. It's the invading force that does that job.
The most worry thing happen, if china attack taiwan it will effect ecomony the whole word, it devistate more than rusia-ukraine war.. the increase price + inflation + supply food + oil + tech suply + electronic etc its scary
@@SuperCatacata You know the word "siege" came from the Latin word "sit", as in to "siege" a fort is to sit back and wait til they surrender under your blockade. Taiwan is an island with just 2 month of fuel, you don't actually need any bombing campaign to force them into submission. The bombing campaign just helps convince them to submit faster.
Showing ones strength to an adversary and having it well known is the key to any deterrence. Many wars including much of WW2 would never have happened if the attacking side really knew what they were up against.
in ww2 the allies showed weakness through appeasement. usa was out of the picture. russia had a pact with germany. the west today shouldnt make the same mistake again.
Not quite. Hitler really was stupid enough to have started a war anyways. His generals told him it was suicide, even while the offensive in the east was still going well.
Switzerland is mountainous and armed to the teeth. It has underground (under rock) shelters enough to house it's entire population. Fortress Switzerland has not been successfully invaded in what... 600 years? Minefields can make life precarious for ships. And there is a proposal to nuke the three gorges dam floating around. Best idea is to not invade.
Not really this perspective doesn’t really make sense until the Germans attacked the Soviets and the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor the war was happening for 2 years before both of these events
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that unmanned aerial weapons, MANPADS and drones will play a far more significant part in any future conflicts. Taiwan should be building up these resources
Let's be honest, a major portion of Taiwan's strategy for dealing with China in the event of an invasion involves drawing the United States into the conflict.
@@ramjam6934 I think Japan is already preparing for it. They have been building their military up recently. Korea would depend on what North Korea says and does. I have no idea what india would do tbh. I also don't know if any of them have a treaty with Taiwan similar to ours.
I like how Taiwanese admiral left sea drones part out. Which can become the most painful point during the warfare. This can disrupt supply and blockade military forces at no cost. Ukrainian war showed the effectiveness of that weapon.
@@DY-fy2jh Although China has more aerial drone capabilities and presumably that might transfer to marine drones too, it's also true that their USVs aren't going to have as much targets as Taiwan's will. Taiwan could use USVs against incoming Chinese ships.
I don't think that was a mistake. Many of the most sensitive details critical to any military operation tend not to be brought up, at least for now. Unfortunately, China is also aware of drone capabilities. Last I heard, they were testing a supposedly civilian small cargo ship that just happens to be capable of doubling as a remote drone carrier. Not sure what's the status on that, but yeah, the future arms race looks very drone-intensive for all sides.
The trust is, Taiwan alone can never defend against China, China is just 10x bigger and has more resources. USA may help in a normal war, but in a long term seige, No way.
Do you think dialogue can solve the problem? Taiwan has revised its textbooks and completely denies that it was once "Chinese" Taiwan's geographical location makes it impossible for it to be independent... Can you imagine having a Russian island at the doorstep of the United States?
cheapest solutions are Best Solutions. Cheap anti ship Drones & Manpads can do enormous damage to PLA, PLAN efforts to takeover without collateral damages. Make this war very hard & expensive for CCP with body bags going back into Mainland
USA doesn't want Taiwan to have Nukes. But perhaps in the interests of peace, Taiwan could get The Rods of God up in space that would only be used when necessary.
@@AvuncularMicah That does seem like a very good deterrence strategy similar to having nukes. However, they do not yet have the capability to certainly penetrate the air defences and deal enough damage so it fails massively. Dam is a hardened structure and has many ''layers'' so it isn't even know how much damage you actually need to do for it to fail.
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The minute you let china dictates who can emter and who cant They own it Philippine biggest mistake is to let china dictates what they want and what they dont want The minute you let them do what they want you loose
Becouse that would probably be the worst case nightmare scenario for the PLA. First they take heavy losses landing and taking a part of Taiwan, and now not only do they have to deal with local insurgencies, but there is still a part of the island where the enemy has their forces and can constantly launch small attacks on your positions. They either don't land at all or take the whole thing, anything in between would be a huge pain.
The US military will never directly engage the PLA.. exactly how they're not engaging Russian military in Ukraine.. seems what ever China does, they will dominate Taiwan. If not at first physically occupied on the ground, given enough time economically choking all goods in/out of the island, the Taiwanese will have no choice but to completely surrender
after pelosi's visit PLA navy did a simulated sea blockade and no foreign ships dared to sail close to taiwan.. same will happen in eventual reunification and it'll be quick and hopefully peaceful
@@xDomglmao a term I believe was said by Johnny Harris on Japan heavily militarizing the Ryukyu Island Chain where they installed Long Range Missiles capable of reaching the Taiwan Strait or the mainland China. reference: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-plHRRFHZ_f0.html
When PRC attack, ROC must show they can hold the island on its own during the early stage of the fight, if not USA may also bomb TSMC facilities to prevent PRC get hold of the facilities. Potentially getting bomb by both enemy and friend. What a tough position.
@@dianahill5116 Man woman black white gay straight doesn’t matter who’s in charge war is in our blood and it’s a part of human nature and no matter how hard we try we can never change human nature
@@millennium677 There is no such thing as human nature. Humans behave differently across cultures. Among the Amish for example, there are nearly no reported murders. It is scarcity that creates viciousness between organisms, and it doesn't stop with humans.
So a peaceful reunion is not on the table? Don't forget there are no peace agreements nor cease-fire negotiations between the mainland and TW. There should be a reason why the mainland army still keeps its name as the "People's Liberation Army".
money cant solve that, in spite of what your reddit education tells you. 700BN is put towards ending homelessness, biden just signed 100bn infrastructure, and we put more of our taxes to healthcare than any other country.@@angus7278
Because in open and free elections, Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly reject independence. The only real debate there is whether to keep the status quo or whether to apply for statehood.
There a good reason why the US and her allies in the region are making a new island defensive chain system. The goal of it to basically dismantle the China navy during it invasion. Making China force to choose between striking at a American carrier strike force or the defensive front that can do not only cripple but has the potential to stop the invasion with short range strikes onto it fleet.
You mean like the QUAD? Where Japan was vocal about not interfering (Orianna Skylar) for fear of retribution? Or India, who's best buds with Russia? That's why Aukus was formed btw, no one in Asia is going to fight US wars lol
@@paulcruz168lmao??? The Chinese and Russian are kinda buddies. Many believe in India and abroad like you that USSR or Russia has always been a friend to India... But do you know a very lesser known fact? Just before the 1962 Indo China war.. The Chinese Premiere spoke to the Russian Premier and informed him that a possible invasion of India was brewing. The Russian Premier Delayed the delivery of Mig 21s to India which cost us the war. It was one of Russia's deliberate attempts to Please Beijing and choose Beijing over NCR(National Capital Region of India). If an imminent war breaks out now..... Then India will have to face China alone without Russian help. This is exactly the reason why India is steadily shifting towards the West and also Arab and African nations and even SEA and Australia, Japan, Korea.
China will never attack Taiwan unless one of the following 1 Taiwan declares referendum on independence 2 develope its own nuclear program 3 external forces to assist in the island independence. ... if none of that... stay clam and carry on
I don’t know if Mainland China wants to invade Taiwan, but I know the Americans won’t be spilling blood and steel to defend Taiwan. Just look at the homeless drug addicts in SF and you’ll know what a disaster we are in here.
Also semi autonomous underwater long range torpedoes. They could automatically surface to recharge their batteries once a month, using a thin film solar panels on their surface.
Ignore the trolls, every year the number of people in China who believes Taiwan is not part of China increases. I lived in Beijing until 2018, and most people then were "nationalistic" on this matter. Ever since I left practically all Chinese I talk to uses VPN and talks very openly about "Taiwan is already an independent country without recognition" and jokes about "I would rather have Taiwan passport than China passport". My prediction is Taiwan (as an independent nation) is going to outlive the PRC, and the next government of China will most likely give up this issue.
Usually, when you talk to a Taiwanese, they will automatically assume US soldiers are their own trained dogs, who will jump in at the first place whenever PLA invade, and defend taiwan like their grandma's house. Do you agree their perspectives?😀
China's policy: Taiwan is part of China, and the People's Republic of China is the sole representative government of China, as recognized on paper by the international community, even by the United States in the Declaration on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and the United States. The best way to resolve the Taiwan issue is through peaceful consultation and shelving the issue, but the use of force is not ruled out. Analysis: If the U.S. chooses to keep hyping this topic, and Taiwan's leaders keep following this independent move, war is inevitable. All along, both the Mainland and Taiwan have the option of shelving this topic, and as long as the leaders of Taiwan do not discuss independence and do not follow the United States every day, nothing will actually happen to Taiwan, which is actually a very good solution, that is, shelving the issue.
It’s wild to see literal CCP shilling being left untouched by RU-vid mods. This is a western website, why do we allow such propaganda? Anyway the CCP has NEVER governed Taiwan, not even for one second
Basically you said “as long as Taiwan bows down and becomes a vassal of Emperor Winnie Pooh, they will be fine” like no one wants that, you learnt this last election when your pro mainland politician lost
We are currently seeing in Ukraine how anti-ship missiles can be a cheap, powerful deterrent against navies. The Russian Black Sea fleet won't come within 150 km of the Ukrainian controlled coast.
China's population and military are so large that heavy casualties on the Communists' side would be accepted as "cost of business." Even a credible nuclear threat might not dissuade China. Suppose the war escalated to a nuclear exchange between the United States and China. A Minuteman or Trident missile strike against a handful of military targets and a city of two would amount to a tolerable "population adjustment," especially since in China, unlike the West, the survival of the community is culturally and legally ranked far above the rights of the individual. On the other hand, were a Chinese nuclear warhead to detonate anywhere in the United States, the actual damage and the emotional and cultural toll would be far higher for us. We need to make a decision. If China invades Taiwan, we can take no action and leave it be, which has some very unpleasant consequences. If we decide to intervene, it cannot be a politically limited strike. It has to be an all-out attack, destroying Chinese targets on land and at sea, and even attacks on Beijing and other key cities, specifically targeting Command, Communication and Control centers without let-up. If the Chinese warned they would unleash nuclear weapons, we would have to communicate that our nuclear strike would not be limited to a "population adjustment." We would be ready to use enough arsenal to turn the 50 largest Chinese cities into molten glass and much of China into a wasteland, including targeting food growing regions. Then we would offer China a way to save face and declare victory while withdrawing its forces from Taiwan.
Taiwan (Republic of China) already belongs to the People's Republic China the way that Hawaii belongs to the USA or the northern part of Ireland belongs to England, or French Polynesia belongs to France and US Micronesia belongs to the USA. What the people there want is entirely irrelevant.
The average PLA soldier or sailor is likely to be from a one chid family. Throwing their lives away in human waves like they did in Korea in the 50s is no longer feasible. And that is only on the military side. More one child families will be looking for an answer from the CCP if Taiwan retaliated by launching missiles against Chinese cities. The one child policy is one of the best deterrents against a profligate waste of lives that any invasion would involve.
U really think China can't inflict this same level nuclear retaliation on return. China's nuclear arsenal is growing at an alarming level. They will have 1000 nukes soon. And they will be able turn 50 American cities back to the stone age in return
It is nonsense to say China A A the ZZ Taiwan. They are one big family , the same races bearing the surnames in one common book called '百家姓'。Every surname of each person in Taiwan can be located in this book of hundreds of surnames. Wither you like it or not, you can put it to test.
Taiwan isn't recognized as a sovereign nation by most of the world. " Only a handful of countries officially recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state. These countries include Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Vatican City."
i don't think taiwanese has the determination to perform guerrilla warfare or something like that. the biggest obstacle to china is always the international reaction, not taiwan itself
@beeperbeeperson lol, wow,. First Taiwan isn't where all transistors come from, Taiwan makes most 5nm and below processing chips used in phones and GPUs, and drones processors use 28nm chips, maybe 14nm at most, and the vast majority of chips are power transistors, power regulators and radio modules that uses even bigger nodes. In other words nobody need Taiwan to build drones. Second China is one of the worlds largest maker of 28nm chips, has been mass producing 14nm for a few years now and just started mass producing 7nm. DJI has been under US sanctions for 2 years now, did they care? Three, drones needs a lot more than just chips, you need cameras, radios, batteries, motors, motor drivers, and composites. Taiwan has none, its' all China. The only way Taiwan can build any drone is to buy from Aliababa, infact they had a scandal last year where they had to send their military drone to mainland China for repairs.
@@vlhc4642 China doesn't have 10 thousand drones with the range to cross the Taiwan strait. The cheap commercial quad copter and small fixed wing drones being used in Ukraine can't travel anywhere close to that far. And you don't need SAMs to counter drones. Ukraine is very effectively countering slow moving drones with small arms fire and mounted machine gun fire (anti aircraft guns). The German supplied Gepard anti aircraft gun is very effective.
I am following Kings & Generals' Pacific campaign that was fought between Japan and the Allies. It's mind boggling how many amphibious assaults both sides conducted throughout the campaign. And in between those assaults, you have the successful ones, the not-so-successful ones, and the failed ones. Then there were so many battles fought just to resupply the armies already landed. From the Japanese side, you have the early 1942 campaigns where they conducted so many amphibious landings all around the Pacific - from Philippines, to Malaya, to Dutch East Indies, Guam, Wake, and so on. And then the US did the same from Guadacanal to the Pacific islands, all through Iwojima and Okinawa. And that's just the Pacific campaign - there were amphibious operations done in the European theater too by the Allies - the North African landing, the Sicilian landing, the South France landing, and of course the famed Normandy landing. Even Germany conducted some amphibious assault in their invasion of Norway and the airborne operations of Cretan assault. The amount of experience accumulated by not just the US but Japan and other belligerents in amphibious assaults were immense. Meanwhile, China has conducted 0 amphibious assault in modern time. Can they excel in their first try by just learning from military history? If the generals and its officers were first rate students and implementers of those studies, maybe?
In fact, what you call those experiences have long been lost in the dust of history, and modern Westerners only have the experience of the war on terror, and everyone is at the same starting line in the great power war
don't worry china will not fight taiwan - don't have to russia will come down alaska n mexico come up california - no usa no usa lapdogs taiwan japan phillippine korea ...
It’s not getting mentioned much but the Panama Canal is experiencing a lot of issues. The Pacific Ocean sits higher than the Atlantic so ships need to pass thru 3 lock gates. Due to droughts only 32 ships can pass thru a day with draft or weight limits in place to preserve fresh water. This could seriously limit the US ability to resupply or move assets
What do you mean by the Pacific Ocean sits higher than the Atlantic Ocean? I know the lock gates are there to level the boats with the fresh water lakes in Panana but I'm curious to know your answer to my question.
The naval assets we'd need to put china in its place are already in the Pacific. This isn't 1945 when most of US assets were centered on the East Coast. We have major bases in Philippines, Japan, Korea, already. They would all be attacked preemptively by china if they expect to survive more than a week. (Those attacks would also result in a defacto state of war between China and S Korea, China and Japan, and China and Philippines- forcing china to stretch its resources even further). Not to mention bases in the remote pacific islands like Guam midway Hawaii etc. Unlike any other major nation, the US doesn't really need to fear direct attack on its homeland. That means we can send large portions of our collective assets to one region, and not leave ourselves open to attack. So many nations rely on the US for their national security so if the US is actually attacked (as it would be if china invaded taiwan) many would immediately come to the aid of the Americans. Australia is in a similar position as S. Korea and Japan, concerned over China's aggression. I believe they would similarly step in as they've been building up their military as well in preparation of this conflict. The UK joins us in most of our wars anyway. Should Aus be directly engaged, then the UK would be as well. In a defensive war such as this, Canada and Germany would similarly join. Obviously all would if Article 5 is activated but IIRC it is not automatically activated if the attack on a NATO nation occurs outside the north Atlantic. However, most nato nations wouldn't care about that distinction in the event of a sizable attack such this. Finally, trumping all those factors is one simple factor: microchips. For some stupid reason, no one realized what a stupid idea it is to have all the world's microchips made in one spot. Even if that one spot were as safe as, idk... Kansas, it would still be an all eggs, one basket situation. Now let's put that basket right next to our biggest rival. Granted we didn't know they'd be our biggest rival until about 10 or 20 yrs ago, but still we knew they sought to recapture taiwan. Regardless, we've had at least a decade to start building those microchip plants here. Some would be coming online now had we done so. But we are really only starting to do so now. Bc we've allowed our internal squabbles dominate our focus. Even when we aren't squabbling domestically, large portions of us say we need to only focus on ourselves and stop policing the world. Which is true, of course, but we don't have that luxury yet. I fear we adapt too slowly sometimes. This is such an enormous ship - by far the biggest ever built - this ship of state turns very slowly. It accelerates slowly. It's slow to stop. And its captain is never the best person for captain; its captain is the person best at becoming captain.
it all depends on the willingness of china regarding own human losses. lets say china does not care at all, they just drop a few 100k soldiers over the island. a few 10ks might die, at the same time attack with warplanes and warships. if china just throws in the bodies, taiwan can do nothing to fully repel it. if china wants to minimize casualties, then its quite a tricky endevour. i think you cannot overtake taiwan with accepting many losses. its just a too small and crowded space.
you don't know how important the strategical position of Taiwan for China, if China lost Taiwan, then that's a big potential threat for the safety of China.
drones? flying ones? no i mean if china drops this amount of soldier within the same day. like operation normandie. drones wont help. taiwan will get simply overrun but china suffers extreme losses. as i say, china is able to do that if they want to. @@blowindzhang6795
In Japan, the legend of the Divine Wind that stopped the mongel invasion is legendary. Fighting over the land is one thing, but getting there across the sea is much harder. Many PLA will die in the crossing with missiles and subs.
Why make things so complicated when the United Nation of more than 180 countries approved Taiwan is part of China and accept it than to deny it will cause tension and conflict. China do not have to invade Taiwan as part of China and the Chinese Nation must be United soon. 🇨🇳🇹🇼
*THE EIGHT NOBLE ENDEAVORS* Every freedom loving country needs people willing to form Grassroots Organizations/Movements. 1) To ensure that our politicians aren't putting the interests of the CCP above our own countries. 2) To support human rights, and preserve freedom & democracy around the world; from the CCP-PLA's undue influences and harm. 3) To elect politicians who will be on the right side of history. 4) To develop tough on China legislation. 5) To expose and weed out CCP corruption abroad. 6) To foster the fraternity of NATO Nations. 7) To stop China stealing land and resources 8) ....anything else necessary. *This is a conversation we all need to be having with each other.*
You sir are an intelligent individual, this is coming from a person on RU-vid. The CCP is an extremely corrupt and efficient force, they are the super baddies that make terrible bridges, poisoned baby powder, and immense human rights abuses by making CCTV CCP City
Taiwan should follow hong kong and macau,one country two systems.joining western countries is never a better option, they are diminishing power comparing china.
The one country, two systems measure completely failed because the vast majority, if not all Hong Kong candidates are endorsed or instated by the CCP to dismiss their claims to special autonomy.
*"Taiwan needs to give $1 to $2 trillion to American Defense companies or else"* This is what this Wallstreet video is saying. Need to make some $$$$ off of US Defense contractors....
When Kruschev tried to put nukes on Cuba, Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of that island. Kruschev backed down, he had to. The other alternative would be WWIII. Taiwan is just another Cuba with one difference, both Taiwan and China consider Sun Yat-Sen as the father of modern China, both are Chinese with Chinese blood, use Chinese names, language, customs, celebrate the same festivities, share the same history. That's why it's best for both to reunite peacefully, no matter how long that would take -Yan Yuan 😮
The US demands full access to international waters. If China expects to block access to the international waters around Taiwan, will they also expect to stop US freedom-of-seas navigation trips?
The best defense is for Taiwan to develop nuclear weapons. NATO could easily crush Russia but it dares not because of Russia's nuclear arsenal. Taiwan is very advanced. It would be pretty simple for them to do it on their own.
That is true, but just imagine what could happen if China discovered it before its complete. It could trigger an instant invasion. If it was sucessful it would guarantee their safety, but its way too risky.
Taiwan tried and were like 1 year away to be capable to pump out nuclear weapon in late 1980s. Guess who found out and forced Taiwan to stop the program? U.S. ofc. And that's that. Too bad really as Taiwan with nuke would be the strongest ally U.S. has on China issue.
I love when people denial about "nato is strong.. could easly fight russia.. best army.. blahblahblah" but in reality nato just no action talk only LOL
@@privacyhelp Being "all talk" means its working as intended. NATO exists primarily to provide peace trough deterrence. Nobody dares to invade a nation which is a part of NATO becouse it would lead to said nation getting completely overwhelmed the second the article 5 gets invoked, and as such there was never a need for NATO to go in guns blazing against somoene.
What is China's sea lift capacity? 2.2 million troops mean nothing if you cannot transport and supply them? How many drones does China have for a first strike? and what does Taiwan have as far as drones and anti ship missiles? No one is coming to save Taiwan, not even the US.
It seems USA can always find a place they want to help and somehow that place always end up in ruined. Maybe the problem is either Taiwan or China. Just saying...
@@universalcompilations1662 taiwan war will be in usa russia n china will support cuba texas or whole south puetorico hawaii russia will come down alaska n mexico come up california china can support the red indians n natives in newzealand n australia usa is full of holes - no need to touch taiwan/asia
I'd like to see the state of China's economy in about five years, ten years. China's demographics are showing a rapidly aging population. Will they actually have the capability to do it? Another COVID outbreak? The ramp-up to mounting an invasion from the Mainland, or man-made islands, would be so obvious as to allow the US Navy and Air Force to get into position. Crossing the expansion of the Strait is a heck of a lot wider than the English Channel. The big question for me is, why would China risk destroying a territory, through warfare, that is trying to acquire? Make no sense.
According to the constitution of Taiwan or Mainland China, Taiwan is a province belongs to China.(Republic of China (Taiwan) or People's Republic of China (CCP))
US won’t allow Taiwan to trigger a nuclear war by itself. Washington has stopped Taiwan from developing its own nukes 3 times. Read the article Taiwan’s dire strait from Mearsheimer.
What allies need is to blocked oil going to China from the east and they will dry very soon and not able to continue the war effort. Oil blockade is very easy to do, so China need to think before launching invasion like that.
*You need to study Switzerlands defenses. You need lots of mountains and canyons for this type of warfare which Taiwan also has. Switzerland has enough tunnels and underground bunkers to hide their whole population!!! Over 35,000 miles of tunnels!!! Then they have 25,000 Howitzers shooting down on to the roads in these canyons and these Howitzers are built into the rock face and so well hidden they are impossible to spot even if your looking right at them. The Howitzer barrels are painted and textured in granite paint and 3D paper mache to make them look organic. Fake Barns on real farms are loaded with Anti aircraft missiles. When war is near the Swiss DIG TUNNELS and stock pile ammo and food and hide all their Defenses in plain sight. Search YT for a video on the topic as its fascinating!!!*
For now, China will not send its military to invade Taiwan. China will take at least ten years to build up more ships, submarines, more planes etc. They are also wary of the US sponsored military alliances and bases around them. At this point of time, they can only irritate by sending its ships and planes into Taiwanese waters and airspace. All that siren warnings is good enough to send fear, disrupt daily economic activities. Nations and governments must seek peace.
All 差不多 in quality..... The PLN isn't what one would call a modern navy. When I was in the USN; we were constantly having to chase China out of the territorial waters of other countries, where they didn't belong.
@@manofsan Taiwan's age demographic isn't that different from China's, though so it's a rather strange argument. Unless the taiwanese start youthening their population there's only a very small advantage at best for Taiwan not enough to make a difference if China can improve fleet capability and internal stability before the attack.
Taiwan's only hope is to: 1. Enhance its own littoral and coastal defence force by means of using cost effective and asymmetric warfare platforms like coastal defence mini-submarines (120-500 tons), shore-based anti- missile defense systems, drones (surveillance, combat, & kamikaze), naval mines, ground-based air defense systems (long-range, medium-range, & short-range), man-portable weapons ( ATGMs and MANPADs), mobile artilleries (MLRS), and decoys. 2. Build more well concealed and underground bunkers for the storage of provisions, logistics, shelter, etc. 3. Store necessary much needed provisions and logistics. 4. Ask for help/support to the US
Taiwan's only hope is to stop inviting the evil and sit down with China. Do you know what's Taiwan's language? It's called Mandarin Chinese. They are the same people. Stop being tricked by the imperialist with the divide and conquer tactic.
Taiwan's new "Xionghang" stealthy high-altitude hypersonic orbit-changing cruise missile has a range of more than 2,000 kilometers; the "Xiong Falcon" stealthy, ground-to-sea supersonic orbit-changing cruise missile has a range of more than 800 kilometers. Both types of missile warheads are equipped with radar guidance seekers, infrared image seekers, and AI identification systems, so that the missiles can attack moving targets at sea or land targets. They are dual-purpose anti-ship and land-attack missiles. A new high-performance AI chip is added to calculate the image of the captured target for enhanced recognition, so that the missile has an AI smart missile with a similar eye recognition function. This is why "Xionghang" and "Xiong Falcon" have completed 20 live tests, with a hit rate of 100%. Both "Xionghang" and "Xiong Falcon" can communicate with satellites, early warning aircraft, and drone. They can also use pre-installed geographical orientation map data without relying on GPS, and use the INS inertial navigation system to navigate to the enemy's target area , start the scanning of the radar infrared image finder to find the target, and the AI eye algorithm recognizes and compares the image parameters of the enemy target in the missile computer to identify the target to attack. AI eyes can identify interference flame shields and false targets, and only attack real targets; because of the AI eye function, missiles are not interfered by enemy electronic warfare, and use high-speed and high-performance AI chips to calculate and filter out enemy interference electromagnetic waves, and can also reversely capture the interference source and report the coordinates of the enemy interference source to the friendly drone and early warning aircraft through the data link to carry out follow-up strikes. The flight computer of the missile can pre-plan the path of flying around to deceive the enemy, and change the attack target through the data link, and carry out coordinated group attack operations with the same missile network.
"The guns and the bombs and the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure." Sounds like a kick @#$ missile. I hope one is never pointed at me. 😂
@@IAmBeingSilenced If you don't have a gun to defend yourself, you have to kneel to Putin and beg for mercy. Taiwanese look down on the Chinese Communist Party. Taiwan needs to build more missiles, drones, submarines, , unmanned submarines and new stealth fighters to protect itself, so that bandits dare not come to rob.
Taiwan must legalize gun ownership and encourage its' citizens to learn how to shoot by sponsoring rifle clubs and marksmanship competitions. That would be the most cost effective way to make the PLA think twice before setting foot on Taiwanese soil.
it only increase casualties in taiwan. This is very easy to solve in war time. Taiwan is very small with only 24M people, just divided taiwan in small pieces and move taiwan people group by group to Xinjiang, then freeze food supply for half year. Soon taiwan will be clean.
This will never happen. The entire Taiwanese populace has already completely bought into the "Guns bad, Americans are stupid for having guns" narrative held by the rest of the world.
@@strassmanncai It would be best if the USA sells its nukes to Taiwan to use immediately on the 3 gorges dam. Wouldn't that be great? Mainland will be called West Taiwan! :)
