For awacs that flies from say Okinawa, I think we're gonna be seeing the PLAAF aggresively jamming them (or use other ways to mess with those planes short off shooting them down).
It’s hard(if not impossible) to jam starlink because of its working band and phase controlled array antenna. China can destroy those satellites anyway, but that should be another story about a full scaled space war. Maybe they can detect and destroy ground terminals with some kind of SIGINT capacity that Russia lacks, but I’m not sure.
Basically starlink is a peer of LPI datalinks used in aircrafts such as F35 and F22, which is not easy to be tracked.
It’s not hard to achieve an electric generator and some gasoline. Or even a Tesla car.
KF-088C.
If the Chinese do decide to invade Taiwan, they will pick the time. Before the Chinese fires the first shot, there won't be any shots fired from Taiwan, ISTAR or not. Since Taiwan is an island with no strategic depth, the first few hours will see most of its assets destroyed. After that, a crippled small island trading blows with its giant neighbor will see Taiwan finished off very quickly as a military power. ISTAR won't do much if you have nothing left to hit the other guy.
