I’d actually be almost interested to see that play out. The Taiwanese have been war gaming and stocking up for such a confrontation for years.

The Air Campaign to soften up the island alone is projected to be a bloodbath with the amount of AA ordnance and weapon systems the Taiwanese allegedly have saved up.

And the Chinese have, at least according to reports coming out of China, been going through a massive amount of unrest and economic uncertainty. Not to mention reports of Military issues, Equipment concerns and corruption investigations.

Unless they’re sitting on some BS super weapon. An invasion would be an interesting challenge to see them confront.

I wonder if the usual suspects got themselves involved in a little "fortifying" of this election result too?

I thought that the prevailing view was that a more pro-China party was going to win.

"Through our actions, the Taiwanese people have successfully resisted efforts from external forces to influence this election,” he added, a veiled remark to China’s efforts to interfere in Taiwan’s elections. “We trust that only the people of Taiwan have the right to choose their own president.”

This reference may not be about China's efforts to interfere in Taiwan's election, but about the Globalist Deep State interfering in Taiwan's election. Through the lens of the CCP is in the midst of a Civil War between a nationalist faction led by Xi and a globalist faction (that is losing) led previously by Hu Jintao (deposed, removed from all power, and likely dead now); And a Taiwan that was likely controlled by the globalist Deep State that possibly was also controlling Hu Jintao; This possibly looks like a true win for the Taiwanese People in the form of a real nationalist takeover.

Note that in a theoretical Federalist State of China, Taiwan becomes an "independent sovereign state" as part of a Nationalist China. Only Deep State globalists want CCP military to destroy Taiwan in order to create WW3. Xi may have other plans.

I suspect that the true DS rulers, who previously ruled China by deception using the CCP as their puppet/public facade, have lost their powers and Xi is going to destroy them with his strings being cut. This would explain the major upset and war declaration between Soros and Xi. They (Taiwan) gets a degree of protection by having a monopoly on unique assets too. On top of that, it's probably another Ukraine in terms of money laundering and blackmail material. This is entirely conjecture on my part based on little information. The thing that convinces me they are DS is that they don't arm their people, yet somehow they've survived all these years (particularly Obama) without getting consumed by the dragon that is China. Their people no joke have lots of civilian preppers who train (they even come to the US to train as they have a heavy presence at Milsim West events I've gone to), yet they're only allowed bb guns? A large civilian militia in such a culturally United country makes a lot of sense, unless greater powers that be don't want to be overthrown.

Yeah exactly. I get that it's important for Taiwan to remain as a sovereign country but they're getting really woke (globalist mentality) and most of their businessmen do business in China. Well I just hope for the best for the Taiwanese people, they're very smart and hardworking people.

The U.S. has little choice because that's where so many things are fabricated. It takes a lot of time and training to construct and operate fabs like what Taiwan has going for it.

Fortunately we are building some in the states, e.g. Intel, but again -- takes time.

There needs to be very strong economic incentives to bring manufacturing back here, and Democrats love trying to stop that.

I still maintain that bringing on a significant chunk of Taiwanese fab workers and supervisors into mentorship positions so they can train U.S. workers in exchange for safety from the Chinese government is a good deal. Far better than the swarm of illegals, anyway.

They were given nothing. They took the opportunity to master an up and coming technology and became so good at it, nobody thought to spread the business to others.