Muttley
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Of course he did, I didn't say otherwise. My point is that it is very unlikely that China would attempt a military solution. Yep lob a few missiles into the sea and perhaps buzz the Taiwanese air defences. But the shortest distance between the Chinese mainland and a beach on Taiwan is 100km. Compare that with WW2 Operation Overlord. Shortest distance of what 35km? To achieve success the Allies had to achieve air supremacy, eliminate the possibility of naval intervention and assemble a huge fleet with hundreds of specially constructed landing craft. As Russia demonstrated with their attempted "coup de main" on Kyiv if you do not have the means to quickly support any rapidly deployed airborne troops (assuming they manage to land) you are going to lose them. There is no easy military solution. Perhaps a Chinese blockade of Taiwan trying to force the US into a maritime conflict that the Chinese couldn't win? Sorry I cannot see a way in which the Chinese could hope to achieve re-unification militarily. A Taiwanese fisherman was interviewed by the BBC as he tied up his boat on advice from the Taiwanese Coast Guard...All true but XI did say that
people the BBC spoke to do not believe China is about to attack Taiwan. "They're a bunch of gangsters," says one man fishing on the dockside.
"Those communists talk big, but they won't do anything. We've been living with their threats for 70 years."