Do you notice how within 450 miles/700 kilometers there is the Hong Kong/Shenzhen/Macao/Guangzhoa metroplex?
Eyeballing it or we can check GDP, but that integrated region likely has comparable true economic value to all of Taiwan. It is more or less parity.
And for ballistic missiles/stealth cruise missiles/low flying aircraft it’s basically at point blank range. Flight times could be mere minutes.
Taiwan just has to make themselves about 10 fission devices and they can threaten to do about as much damage as the value of their entire territory in retaliation.
I’m going to add one bit of armchair analysis as to what Taiwan could do in this situation.
Look right here : https://www.google.com/maps/@23.7736383,117.0195051,525664m/data=!3m1!1e3
Do you notice how within 450 miles/700 kilometers there is the Hong Kong/Shenzhen/Macao/Guangzhoa metroplex?
Eyeballing it or we can check GDP, but that integrated region likely has comparable true economic value to all of Taiwan. It is more or less parity.
And for ballistic missiles/stealth cruise missiles/low flying aircraft it’s basically at point blank range. Flight times could be mere minutes.
Taiwan just has to make themselves about 10 fission devices and they can threaten to do about as much damage as the value of their entire territory in retaliation.
They have the capability.