India-China 2020 Border conflict

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Grabbing Taiwan will take 2 days approx, after which when burger sends his CSG It will be exactly like their land grab this year, with chinky being like “hehe you’re sure you want to escalate, Meiguoren?”
 

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Yes, provided the Americans do nothing.
This is the best time tbh, they are in the throes of their 4 year election circus.
Taiwan's military is pretty subpar their don't have a defense strategy like korea or Israel even during such times people their say no to conscription.

Their navy and airforce stand no chance and they spend money on shiny toys like Abrams and attack helicopters.

They don't have any strategy of what to do once the PLA lands on the island itself.

But the main thing is Taiwanese people and the opposition party mostly have no appetite for war.
 

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Is Taiwan going to be easy for the Chinese?
The main issue will be if the Taiwanese fold under pressure (which is a possibility). If Taiwan actually fought back then it will be incredibly difficult for the Chinese to take Taiwan, especially is US intervene. Just look how difficult it was for Americans to take various islands during their Pacific campaign in WW2 or the allies at Normandy. It would be a massive undertaking and I doubt the Chinese would do it.
 

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Also I wanted to add to this.

India has to adapt to how it's opponents behave and how they work saying that we can't mobilize every time is an excuse.

We cannot justify loss of territory like this.

We have to adapt partial mobilization rapid mobilization units which can be deployed immediately better intelligence good network on ground.

There are lot of ways to do this.

We cannot give petty excuses like this.
agreed..
But point to be recognised is that there can’t be rapid mobilisations in these sectors. It takes mandatory 21 days to deploy a new set of boots on the ground at 17000 feet, because of the acclimatisation procedure.
 

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Taiwan's military is pretty subpar their don't have a defense strategy like korea or Israel even during such times people their say no to conscription.

Their navy and airforce stand no chance and they spend money on shiny toys like Abrams and attack helicopters.

They don't have any strategy of what to do once the PLA lands on the island itself.

But the main thing is Taiwanese people and the opposition party mostly have no appetite for war.
Only the thing in bold matters.
Taiwanese bijness houses have strong ties to the mainland, in the end democrazy is hawa, nothing else.

The main issue will be if the Taiwanese fold under pressure (which is a possibility). If Taiwan actually fought back then it will be incredibly difficult for the Chinese to take Taiwan, especially is US intervene. Just look how difficult it was for Americans to take various islands during their Pacific campaign in WW2 or the allies at Normandy. It would be a massive undertaking and I doubt the Chinese would do it.
Taiwanese folding is a given, not a possibility.
The question is how fast will they be able to take the island, and how long will it take to get a US response, now the response doesn't have to be WW3, It will just be some homo display of force sending CSG around Taiwan's coast.
 

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Whether the Taiwanese folk accept if such a thing were to happen is a different matter than any governments.

Taiwanese people don't see themselves the same as the Mainlanders. They've been centuries removed from China. They see themselves as Taiwan and nothing else. It's only the KMT invaders who started the whole PRC ROC nonsense.
 

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Grabbing Taiwan will take 2 days approx, after which when burger sends his CSG It will be exactly like their land grab this year, with chinky being like “hehe you’re sure you want to escalate, Meiguoren?”
Yes if US doesn't intervenes it will be a quick affair. Ideally we'd want US to intervene so that the diversion is bigger & taking over we GB will need at least a week... If all goes well.
We need to use this once in a lifetime opportunity totally. Both US & China busy & Pakis will have nobody to save them.
 

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Whether the Taiwanese folk accept if such a thing were to happen is a different matter than any governments.

Taiwanese people don't see themselves the same as the Mainlanders. They've been centuries removed from China. They see themselves as Taiwan and nothing else. It's only the KMT invaders who started the whole PRC ROC nonsense.
Are they willing to fight tho?
This is not Israel, Taiwan only has keyboard warriors.
 

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Yes if US doesn't intervenes it will be a quick affair. Ideally we'd want US to intervene so that the diversion is bigger & taking over we GB will need at least a week... If all goes well.
We need to use this once in a lifetime opportunity totally. Both US & China busy & Pakis will have nobody to save them.
China is not going to invade Taiwan...
Simply because it's not a war it can win as an occupying force.

Play out the scenarios here ->

1. China bombs Taiwan to extinction
2. puts boots on ground.

Scenario 1, world would bomb China to extinction.
Scenario 2, well, last few decades, occupying forces have always had a tough time in winning the war.

China is just posturing, any invasion of Taiwan will be curtains for CCP.
 

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China is not going to invade Taiwan...
Simply because it's not a war it can win as an occupying force.

Play out the scenarios here ->

1. China bombs Taiwan to extinction
2. puts boots on ground.

Scenario 1, world would bomb China to extinction.
Scenario 2, well, last few decades, occupying forces have always had a tough time in winning the war.

China is just posturing, any invasion of Taiwan will be curtains for CCP.
Nope no one is bombing China.. CCP has previously has too faught wars over Taiwan... So this is nothing new. Most of the world doesn't recognize Taiwan so support won't be much to them either. Without US Taiwan is as good as Toast.
Now Taiwanese are same as Chinese so it will likely go Hong kong way with them.
Actually US Elections is the window XI might be looking. If Biden wins fallout won't matter much. US will cut a deal & everybody goes home.
 

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Nope no one is bombing China.. CCP has previously has too faught wars over Taiwan... So this is nothing new. Most of the world doesn't recognize Taiwan so support won't be much to them either. Without US Taiwan is as good as Toast.
Now Taiwanese are same as Chinese so it will likely go Hong kong way with them.
Actually US Elections is the window XI might be looking. If Biden wins fallout won't matter much. US will cut a deal & everybody goes home.
why not... not bombing will expose US as a fake police of world..

So no reason to not do so. US has the tools and China can't retaliate as well..

CCP know its well but may be playing a game of birkmanship, US may just escalate it to show CCP as the real paper tigers.
 
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