I wonder what Taiwan would do. I would think they would stay out of the fight between China and the USSR while it is still conventional, with the possibility of providing material to the mainland to curry some postwar goodwill. It gets harder if Taiwan thinks the USSR is in it to win it and it is not just a large border skirmish. Taiwan might get away with "volunteers" helping China with logistics, aircraft pilot training or even "volunteer" pilots, and aggressive naval patrols that harass Soviet warships and not suffer any conventional retaliation. Taiwan would avoid getting nuked in the initial Soviet strike against China because they Soviets wouldn't want to tick off the US, but once NATO gets involved in Europe, I'm sure Taiwan would suffer retaliation for any help it offered to China.
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