My guess is that if China was to invade Taiwan and wanted to knock the US out of the equation, they'd be best served by calling in all the US debts well beforehand. Drive the US economy so far below it's knees they'd have to gut virtually every part of national spending, mothball ships, and downsize the military in general. Then, after say 5 years of downsizing when the US can barely even patrol their own beaches...
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If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.
Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"
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