This convo is offtopic however I will say some words on this.
The US covid deaths are primarily "old" people while the dead on a hypothetical Taiwan invasion would be young soldiers. Obviously families and communities place more importance to the youth than on the old people.
If a family loses its only son then that would be a devastating blow to it. Now however if another family loses a 70+ old man to covid thats more "acceptable"
Thats how life is "measured" on our society. Imagine if these 600 000 deaths in he US were all 20-30 years old... There would be uprisings and mass rebellions the same day..
Young life perceived value > Old life perceived value
Now I think we should go back to topic as this convo is going in a theorycrafting territory
You're making non-sensical comparison here,
@voyager1.
No country or society want to lose hundreds of young people for no reason. Heck, not even old people. You can not talk these kinds of stuff out of context.
We're talking about defending a country's territorial integrity and sovereignty. We're also talking about a very large and powerful country defending its core national interest. You should never underestimate any country's will to defend its core interest, but you should particularly never underestimate China's or Chinese people's. History is not irrelevant. In China's case, it's what motivates the Chinese people for the last hundred years to defend and work for a better and strong China, and that's largely what have gotten China where it is today. Even if you don't want to look back too far into the history, just look at what the young Chinese soldiers had bravely done in last year's Ladakh conflict. And if that's not enough, just look at how thousands of Chinese young medical workers all over the country, mostly born in the '90s or even '00s, to sign up and send themselves in harm's way to Wuhan, the epicenter of COVID breakout. Remember, this was the time when we knew little about the virus and these young people knew they would be working at the frontline.
Here, we're not talking about sending young Chinese soldiers to a war of choice in a distant foreign land, like Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq. We're talking about defending your own country, on your territory. And your country is a very powerful one that can equip you with all kinds of modern weapons to do your duty.
If Taiwanese government and indeed many Taiwanese are determined to go independent, you don't think mainland Chinese would be even more determined and prevail in the inevitable war?
And, as I liked to say, if the US has find it has 100 reasons to intervene in a potential war on Taiwan and sacrifice many lives along the way, China and the Chinese people will have more than a million reasons to do the same. It'll be a contest of will.
Taiwan is legally, historically, geographically, culturally, and ethnically part of China. It is strategically important to the future security and prosperity of China. It is also an extremely charged and emotional issue for China and Chinese people.
You've been wading too much and too deep into many China-related issues without knowing much of them in your previous SDF life and the current reincarnation. While I don't want to accuse you with malice intent, your current one is borderline insulting.
