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Originally Posted by madmikechoi
Taiwan's existential threat has always been the People's Republic of China. Period. If anything Moscow could and possibly would wave the carrot of letting Taiwan call the shots over a mainland rump state- of provinces across the Taiwan Strait if Taipei launched an invasion at the same time the Red Army ran across China's Northeast, Mongolia and West (this would be predicated on Soviet satellite and ELINT on PLA forces across the Strait).
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That's a really interesting twist that I hadn't considered. Of course, this risks Taiwan being a target for U.S. strikes, once the U.S.A. joins the war, but probably not nuclear strikes. In fact, if the US Pacific Fleet is is having to fight the Soviet, the North Korean, the Vietnamese, the Indonesian (in solidarity with ally Australia) AND the Taiwanese navies, it could help explain PacFleet losses and the weakness of the USN presented in canon.