Right, but this means that the Taiwanese will have to deliver up their citites. They will of course have a great opportunity to bring down fire from the uplands on the Chinese, burning all their own cities on the occasion as well. Anyway i wonder if they have mountain troops in China.Yup but there is ample opportunities for static mountain defense. So if the PRC are planning to take Taiwan without nuking it, their soldiers better be doing a lot of cliff climbing.
Agree on that.I'm sure they do, but I got a feeling that on home turf, the Taiwanese will maul them to death.
Have to agree with that. I doubt that China wants to risk "losing face", but making a series of threats and never carrying them out reduces cred.
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I think you may be making the mistake of looking at this from the point of view of a conventional assault, China could flatten Taiwan long before it sent in troops and simply use its navy to keep the US from getting close to Taiwan.
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