Well, I think a large navy with many aircraft carriers will be very important tool to deter small countries as well as breakaway regions like Taiwan from poking at China. One of the biggest problems with Russia is that even though Russia has a big and powerful nuclear deterrence force, her lack of effective and powerful conventional forces is prompting the US to push forward small countries (like Ukraine and Georgia) to act as proxies of the US strategic interest. They are emboldened because they thought that together they are many and could cost Russia more resources to fend off.
Yup, that's why we must offer them a migration route, divide their loyalties, there are bound to be people who are afraid of war and want to leave, when they leave, they demoralize the people staying back, sort of like herd mentality. I can assure you that if PRC offer them standardized modular housing in Xiamen, maybe in some abandoned village, they will rush to buy them. Do it a few month before the invasion, the current Russian invasion had been brewing for the past few months, so there is more than enough time.
We can judge Chinese organization skills during disasters. If you can mobilize equipment and personnel and food and logistics during a national disaster, you can do it during war time too. Of course i am talking about after securing the frontline for the logistics to come in. Russian Army does not do disaster reliefs as often as China.
I would call it practical. You treat people too nice from the onset, they think you owe it to them, and have no gratitude. You let them experience crap, but then give them little sweetener sometimes, and they will lick your boot. Rewards and punishment, its an art to the balance to get the desired result since people are all different. Nothing works better than fear to shatter someone, giving tangible hope at the end of it will gravitate them to you, because bs talks will work initially but go downhill fast when its not realized..
Damn, is this why HK youth worship Anglos and Taiwanese worship Japanese?
I dunno but it works. Its called 下马威 to put people in their place and respect the position of strength. The sugar coated stuff comes afterwards. Don't work long term so you gotta change tack after the initial phase.
I'm concerned about Taiwan's younger generation. From what I've seen at my university, they make HK kids look patriotic.
They're spineless though and wouldn't be able to put up any actual resistance in an insurgency (the big majority of course, the smaller minority putting up resistance will get crushed).