Why China Going To War With Taiwan Would Be Literal Suicide

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Invasion of any target with any known defense structures is realistic. I read about the defense plans of Taiwan, but I don't see them working. It might be that the publicly available strategy where they try to keep the enemy at sea with missiles is fake for deception purposes, but if that's really their plan, it's easily defeated.

Nuclear war with the US under a democratic leader is a more credible reason as to why the invasion didn't happen yet.

The Chinese weapon systems (or well, those shown on YouTube), including their transports, are not how I would approach it either. It just shows such a lack of imagination. Hamas showed some level of innovation in Israel, but it's not like those were new inventions.