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Originally Posted by RN7
I think a bit of wishfull thinking here. If China seriously started an invasion of Taiwan the US Navy would be sending a lot more than one aircraft carrier into the area, and in addition to the navy fighters there are a lot of Marine and USAF combat aircraft already in the Far East, and a lot more could be there in a few days.
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True. But the real trick is for the very limited in-theater forces to be able to delay the oncoming Chinese horde long enough for those reserves to make it across the Pacific. The ROC, Japanese, US, Aussie, and ROK military units in the theater really don't have the power to stop an all-out invasion. Only the threat of a US escalation to nuclear really keeps China from munching on Taiwan today.
In the meantime, China continues to play the long game of destabilizing the economies and political will of its opponents and bides its time, hoping that some really stupid future government of Taiwan will cave in to their demands.