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Originally Posted by RN7
Taiwan's position is a bit like the question of Japan being nuked or not. Its fairly important from an economic point but not nearly as important as Japan. But from its geographical location it is strategically important. Air and naval forces based in Taiwan can range over the South China Sea, the East China Sea, much of mainland China and into the Pacific. During the Second World War the island of Formosa (Taiwan) was heavily used by the Japanese as a base of operations for precisely this reason, and US forces heavily bombed Japanese bases in Formosa because of it.
Even if Taiwanese forces were not present on mainland China I would be certain that US air and naval forces would be based in Taiwan during the Sino-Soviet War and the first year of the Twilight War. I could not see Taiwan being blanketed with nuclear strikes by the Soviets, but certainly a few low yield nukes against a few ports and airfields to deny them to the Americans.
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Or you could get the govt of Taiwan say they are neutral and not allow the US basing rights - which might explain how Thailand didnt get nuked either (I could be wrong about that - been a while since I read the Thailand module) - but per the V2.2. book Thailand was relatively untouched by the war - which to me means no nukes or not more than one or so
I will say this though - if we go with the "big refineries get nuked" argument - which isnt always 100% correct when you see that some werent in the canon in the US for instance - then Taiwan has several that definitely qualify