PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

At this point China has absolute advantage on Taiwan. I believe this thread has run its course. It is meaningless to discuss the detail of a one-sided conflict. PRC has absolute advantage in direct combat, as well as various ways of defeating the island without force, such as a blockade, diplomacy with US.

The only meaningful variable to retake of Taiwan is a direct conflict with US. In which case Taiwan is no longer than main subject, because conflict would be much wider. A new thread should be dedicated for hypothetical war with US caused by Taiwan issue.

I sometimes wonder if the CPC is delaying resolving the Taiwan issue until it is strong enough to completey exorcise anglo presence in east asia.

TK3600 said:

A new thread should be dedicated for hypothetical war with US caused by Taiwan issue.

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That's the point of the WESTPAC HIC thread

Chevalier said:

I sometimes wonder if the CPC is delaying resolving the Taiwan issue until it is strong enough to completey exorcise anglo presence in east asia.

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Of course that's exactly what it's doing. That is the only way to ensure a (mostly) bloodless victory. There needs to be no doubt on the island that 1. they are on their own, no one would fight China in Asia for them 2. even if the US wanted to help, they would be powerless, 3. resistance is a pointless death. The bonus number 4 is for them to see that their lives would actually improve under the PRC rather than their lunatic congress fist fight type of clown government. Every day, as the power balance tilts further towards China, we are closer to a bloodless reunion; we are well strong enough to do it by force but we won't do that unless we are forced to do it.