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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
This gets at what is concerning about this. You are going back to imperial powers just invading for the hell of it. China can watch this and go after Taiwan. Hell - the US could go off the deep end and come after us if they wanted to, nothing we could do to stop it.
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I don't think that China has the sea lift, or amphibious assault capability yet to actually invade Taiwan.
If they were going after Taiwan, they would simply level it and force Taiwan to surrender. But its likely that there would be a strong American Naval response to something like that.
While China's Navy has undergone a strong modernization program as have their airforce, and they now have I think one modern carrier and one not so modern carrier in use, and they've upgraded their submarine capability, its likely that the American's could do some real damage to China in their own backyard.
I'm not as worried about China going after Taiwan as they go after the resource rich areas to the south like the Spratley Islands (sp?).