Not the case for the Taiwan Island.
Who thinks America or the entire West has enough firepower to do real damage to China is delusional. Those people are the same ones many years ago that believed the US can defeat China with 300 Tomahawks.
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Who thinks America or the entire West has enough firepower to do real damage to China is delusional. Those people are the same ones many years ago that believed the US can defeat China with 300 Tomahawks.
I dont think it is wise to bomb Chinese cities with various cheap rocket, but they can still choose to do it, though it will not meaningfully affect the economic activity.
yanks won't even close to the first step. they will be blown out of the skies, near guam
The electricity grid needs constant maintenance，without it the grid could paralyse within days. And all other infrastructures rely on electricity such as water and network will be disabled as well
China has the most resilient power network in the world. They have tons of excess power generation and a super robust distiburion system because it's always been treated as a strategic vulnerability. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the American network went down before the Chinese one does.
Yet the US couldn't destroy the Vietnamese power grid even with more firepower than WW2 concentrated on Vietnam and using high volume short ranged weapons.
US will only get to use long ranged weapons without risk of pilots being shot down. And all of them are subsonic missiles.
China built her electricity grid with her own tech and you don't think she can repair any damage to it?
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My personal experience is that it is normal some of the factories in China have their own back-up power generator that runs on diesel. These are not the small gen set seen in a car garage. They are quite large and powerful enough to light up a few streets, and we had used them several times to run our production machinery during power outage.
I assumed all major infrastruture like airport, water treatment plant, state owned arms factories etc would have back-up power generators.
How long the back-up generators can run depends on how large is the fuel storage tanks within the premises and how fast replenshment of fuel can be delivered. They should be able to run until the power grid is restored.
I assumed all major infrastruture like airport, water treatment plant, state owned arms factories etc would have back-up power generators.
How long the back-up generators can run depends on how large is the fuel storage tanks within the premises and how fast replenshment of fuel can be delivered. They should be able to run until the power grid is restored.
I don't think Ukraine is a good example.
1. Remember that Taiwan is an island and will almost certainly face a situation where China has air-sea superiority. That means an effective blockade, with nothing going in or out.
In comparison, Ukraine has long land borders with the EU.
2. We could expect Chinese weapons production to be more than 10x higher, given the disparity in terms of population, never mind industrial capacity.
3. The vast majority of Taiwan's population is concentrated in a thin 30km strip of coastal land facing mainland China, all of which can be reached by low-cost glide bombs. In Ukraine, there is barely any population within 30km of the border.
4. Taiwan has half the population of Ukraine.
TK3600's point is that China can't be crppled by a conventional missile attack!