Why China Would Struggle to Invade Taiwan (A country they believe they own but don’t) Doing so through force would prove enormously difficult and costly.

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1. Need those semiconductors

2. Taiwan thinks it owns the rest of China. 

3. And if they invaded Taiwan the entire Western World would boycott Mainland China. The US, UK, EU, South Korea, Canada and Japan would refuse to do business with them or drastically cutail thier imports from CCP. They can’t risk it.

4. Who says they need to literally conquer every inch with foot soldiers in like a month? A prolonged blockade of the island would eventually wreck it economically. They don’t even need to surround the whole country, since it only has a handful of actual ports.

   They can keep targeting military assets with drones and missiles the whole time in preparation for a later invasion too.

5. Well with the internet having solved that problem, and thanks general for your keen strategic advice, china has just put those ambitions to rest

6. The US Navy and Marines have been wargaming this for years

7. China believing they own it is the same concept of hippies manifesting. You say it enough it will come true.

8. China? You mean mainland Taiwan?

9. What I don’t get is, what does China gain by invading and capturing Taiwan, just a piece of land? The same goes with Russia and Ukraine, but I guess there is not much logic in there.

10. People compare this situation to Russia vs. Ukraine, but a key difference is that China wants Taiwan because it’s valuable. Its cities and industrial capabilities are like crown jewels. Russia on the other hand is totally nihilist, and will level entire cities within Ukraine in order to occupy it. China won’t and can’t afford to destroy Taiwan in order to take it. It would defeat the purpose.

    TL;DR the Chinese are businesspeople, the Russians are orcs.