If that's what you're referring to, yes, China has the ability to provide tactical support to advance units, including bombing. I just don't understand why you're so enamored with that, what superpower hasn't done that? Even small countries do it, just look at Israel. But the thing is, this strategy doesn't mean that everything is going to be fine, and aerial bombardment isn't going to be terribly effective in a decentralized guerrilla war. Many of the dispersed and hidden strongholds are also ones that need to be dealt with personally by the front line troops, you can't bomb every area, and the bombing needed just to level one large stronghold is quite a bit. If you call for bombardment, the front line troops have to call for fire support themselves for some of the smaller strongholds, which means the troops have to be there first at least. And regardless of whether or not it hits, the front line troops in the bombardment zone must first retreat, so how is this different from the scenario you listed earlier? Not to mention, it would all have to be done in less than 5 minutes. Besides, you can't guarantee the terrain after the bombing, Taiwan has dense urban areas and there is a risk of blocking off the roads after the bombing, what will the front line troops do then?
By “but the Taiwanese are not the same to the Chinese as the Iraqis are to the Americans” I don't just mean that the slogan that China has been putting forward since the last century is “Recover Taiwan” is different from what the Americans are aiming for in Iraq, but also because you can't make a simple analogy between a war with completely different conditions of combat environment. Also, what makes you think that China and Russia will actually adopt whatever the West says about “humane war”? The concept of “humane war” is just wrong, war can't be humane, and the reason why object to your “great bombing” is that the PLA will professionally deal with the specific situation. Not indiscriminate firepower projection.
As well, for what reason exactly do you suspect that China is just in order to build a nuclear attack submarine base there to break and destroy the US first island chain. What China has always wanted to do is to take control of Taiwan and realize its territorial integrity, fulfilling its historical mission since Chairman Mao, while ensuring the integrity of its territorial waters and homeland security, so I agree with you about breaking the first island chain. But building a nuclear submarine base? Even if you want to establish a nuclear submarine base, don't you want to control Taiwan? Isn't that the basis of everything?
In fact, what confuses me is that you say that China doesn't want to control Taiwan, yet you say things that China can only do after it has control of Taiwan.
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