Care to enlighten us why then?
Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Not really. They literally gave Blue Force infinite respawn so that it could win on paper…
It's not actually an invasion if the 99 year lease runs out. It's just Chinese troops moving back into Hong Kong
Lai Chingte's personal security detail would not stay this observably close to him as he inspect and observe military maneuvers — during the ongoing Han Kuang 41 exercise in Taiwan — unless they had cause to be wary of "insider threats."
A commander-in-chief who is not able to trust his own troops — especially an elite formation that was certainly hand picked for such a photo op — will not last long or necessarily even survive should conflict erupt against an overwhelmingly superior force like the PLA, especially in the absence of immediate intervention by the 7th Fleet.
In comparison, President Trump felt no need to be surrounded by the USSS while visiting troops in Iraq:
Trump even felt safe mingling and dining with ethnic minority members of the US military while visiting Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in 2019:
Likewise, General Secretary Xi needed no bodyguards in Inner Mongolia while visiting PLA troops:
The contrast is stark and visible: the DPP political leadership clearly distrust "their own" ROC servicemen, which will reverberate by cultivating the rank and file's cynicism of the dubious political bigwigs.
Reasonable people typically won't want to lay down their lives for politicians who refuse to trust them.
A commander-in-chief who is not able to trust his own troops — especially an elite formation that was certainly hand picked for such a photo op — will not last long or necessarily even survive should conflict erupt against an overwhelmingly superior force like the PLA, especially in the absence of immediate intervention by the 7th Fleet.
In comparison, President Trump felt no need to be surrounded by the USSS while visiting troops in Iraq:
Trump even felt safe mingling and dining with ethnic minority members of the US military while visiting Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in 2019:
Likewise, General Secretary Xi needed no bodyguards in Inner Mongolia while visiting PLA troops:
The contrast is stark and visible: the DPP political leadership clearly distrust "their own" ROC servicemen, which will reverberate by cultivating the rank and file's cynicism of the dubious political bigwigs.
Reasonable people typically won't want to lay down their lives for politicians who refuse to trust them.
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We don't need "stories", the "true story" is known, declassified cables. There are no fanciful stories. The UK had prepared all kinds of ideas to float, joint administration, lease continuation, etc. Deng was simple and blunt, they are taking HK back. Basically, "you can do this the hard way or the easy way".
Enjoy some of the arrogance of UK officials below...
From those cables, they had come up with those ideas because they knew it was militarily impossible to put up any sort of resistance.
Taiwanese military operates a three-tier mobilization system, with the lowest tier consisting of 18 local reserve brigades, each with a 4,000 personnel.
Before 2021, each brigade had only a shocking 24 full-time personnel and conducted "training" just once every two years, lasting 5-7 days (in reality, possibly only 3 days, with little to no actual training). After the reserve reforms, by 2024, the number of full-time personnel in each brigade is expected to increase to 200, aiming to raise the full-time ratio to 5%, while reservists will undergo 14 days of annual training. But for now, the reform has taken it back a little bit, 14 days (8 hours per day) of training every two years.
The second-tier "Basic Training Infantry Brigades" aren't much better either. True to their name, they essentially serve as training centers during peacetime, handling military instruction for both active-duty and reserve personnel—in reality, they're just some huge boot camps.
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The Ham Kuang exercises aren’t just all propaganda, I’m sure a lot are especially when shown to the media but some parts also aren’t, to say it’s all propaganda is just wrong.
im not talking about that as much but other parts, I haven’t seen them do red vs blue so I can’t speak on that
These so called reservists are not much a threat in open fields but are going to be a big problem in dense urban environments. China probably doesn't want to do grozny or bakhmut on taiwan but it might not have a choice if DPP wants to fight to the end.
There are no infantrymen in Grozny and Bakhmut who only served 4 months to one year of very low-intensity military service a few years ago and then only train for 14 days every two years.
You don't need much training to occasionally pop out of a window and shoot an RPG. Or run towards a tank and lob a grenade like how hamas does it in Gaza.