Public opinion expresses serious concern about Taiwan's military preparedness amid escalating tensions with China. Many commenters doubt the effectiveness of the civil defense drills, viewing them as superficial and highlighting significant anxieties about possible military confrontations, particularly concerning naval blockades and a lack of effective American support.

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Theoretically, the Chinese civil war has been going on from 1946 to the present day without any peace agreement or ceasefire agreement document. Today's peace is only a ‘tacit ceasefire’ since 1979.

Substantial_Web_6306

Think back to the 73 Middle East was.  Egypt kept mobilizing and began moving towards the Suez Canal.  Israel would in turn mobilize. This went on through several iterations until Israel decided it was an annoyance more than an actual attack.  It had economic impact on Israel. They decided not to respond to last actions by Egypt.  That’s when Egypt attacked.

Intelligent-Read-785

Always amazed how the Matsu Islands, the Wuqiu Islands and Kinmen Islands, remain a part of Taiwan and have not been invaded/annexed by China.  I’m not sure how well a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would go but these islands seem like they would be the first ones PRC takes back.

91361_throwaway

Interesting the 2024 areas respect Taiwan’s internal waters claim even better than the 2022 areas did. This surely reflects the effort that PLA Navy has put into disputing repeated US Navy transit of the Paracels internal waters claim. 

https://amti.csis.org/reading-between-lines-next-spratly-dispute/

diffidentblockhead

Why is everyone itching to start a war all of a sudden?

Mandalorian-89

An attempted naval assault on this scale would be unprecedented in modern times and unbelievably risky. 

We’ve seen in the Black Sea the results of a traditional navy coming up against cheap, easy to produce naval drones and a bit of cunning use. The very real risk for China in the event that they decide to go for this is that they’ll take unbelievably heavy losses before they even land ground forces. 

Then when the ground forces land, it’s going to be absolutely horrific. It will make what’s happening in Gaza right now look like a bar-fight. Taiwan has made no secret that their strategy is to stock up and prepare so heavily, that in the event of a Chinese attack, they’re ready to go at the drop of a hat and inflict as many casualties as they can, as fast as they can. The hope, obviously, is that they make the potential losses so heavy that China will assess that the venture simply isn’t worth the risk. 

Legitimately, I can see China suffering 2m casualties plus and basically wasting their entire pool of reservists if they attack.

KingJacoPax

I sure hope somebody else posts this map 65 more times over the next two days. I definitely haven’t seen it enough lately.

Argyle892

Next time Taiwan should do some minelaying exercises before their presidential speech, to be removed a month or two after it's done.

HarambeTenSei

Fuck me, why do I have this feeling that what's happening in Taiwan is what happened in Ukraine in the 2000s and 2010s? So much military threat from a powerful neighbour with the ambition of conquering it.

corbynista2029

It will be really fun when Trump chickens out to Putin and that emboldens Xi to attack Taiwan...

Haxemply

It’s like a shark circling around it’s prey

Entire_Set_6063

CCP shills out in full force on this one.

Mark my words, the invasion is going to kick off soon. This election in the US is not going to be a good one, and regardless of the outcome, the internal chaos that we will undoubtedly see from election day up to the inauguration, combined with our current divided interests in the middle east and Ukraine, means that January-February might be the best shot the CCP has at a successful invasion.

Independent-Tooth-41

Why doesn’t the US just trade a lot of surface ships and aircraft to Taiwan for cheap or free access to their high-end chip capacity?

NotEvilGenius

Jurassic Park quote: “That’s right, but they never attack the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses, systematically. They remember.”

Mentha1999

Now show US military drill around the world.

top_freesuggestions

I thought sailing your warships in international waters is totally legal and okay? China didn't complain two months ago when a bunch of western warships pass through the strait.

lelarentaka

Hour_Eagle2

They step one fucking toe on that beach and they are blowing those chip fabs you mark my words

crash893b

If the Taiwanese were 1/10 as paranoid as Putin and his Kremlinbots we'd probably already live in the Fallout universe

Jlib27

Now do you military drills around other sovereign nation

anon_redditor_4_life

Can someone please mansplain why there is a need for these drills apart from dick swinging and carbon heavy activity. Everyone knows China and US have nuclear weapons already.

Efficient_Editor5850

If PRC hasn’t mishandled Hong King so badly over the past couple of decades reunification with Taiwan would be much more likely now, IMO.

Responsible-Sale-467

Poor Taiwan, how the world turns a blind eye while this peaceful democracy is bullied by an aggressive wannabe imperial power next door is beyond me. Imagine the outrage if this was a western country to an ex colony. I bet the UN will turn a blind eye if China ever colonises them, would it do the same if a western country did that same?

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Aamir_rt

This is map of the island of Taiwan but if the country of Republic of China ever starts using that name again people will realise super quickly that this is a domestic issue.

ScottE77

If Trump wins, China is invading Taiwan and asking its vassal Putin to restrain its own vassal Trump.

China the big bully threatening smaller states again!!

Frosty_Key4233

Lmao Chinese government are such scared little pussies, frightened by a tiny island 🤣

Embarrassed_Quail381

random_agency

--Arete

Drones will shape this war that’s coming so differently from what is expected

HgnX

Why aren’t they being kicked out of Taiwans territory?

Fyfaenerremulig

Is a Chinese military drill when they all get out of the ship and run around it until the light turns green?

JudgeGusBus

This kind of remind me when I used to play Civ IV, and just send as many units as possible around the enemy, making a big circle around them

DianhoSC

You know they say a taiwan invasion would happen in April or October...

According to perun (on YouTube) their military exports are nom existent lately. Possibly a build up?

Chaos in the Middle East and our force posture there is huge... strike right right before the US elections?? Leave us in political chaos...

Ok-Dog-8918

Now you know where they’re at. Now blast them with a million gallons of silly string.

ABetterT0m0rr0w

Cancelled in Tainan

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Valour-549

\&gt;WFH today, have eaten sugary cake received yesterday for lunch, fall asleep  
\&gt;Mfw have slept through both phone alerts, both sirens, and the entirety of drill

When the DJI drones come,
I am going to be one of the first
bowls of braised long pork rice.

IceColdFresh

vienna_sims

How is Air Defense Exercise? Will it apply to all the counties?

wunlyangteng

Grasshopper60619

Is there sense of complacency in Taiwan, does the average person think "surely China will leave us alone?"

PuterstheBallgagTsar

As a former conscript and current reservist - four months sounds a bit low, but not terribly so, depending on the training goals and how it's done, and what the cohort looks like. Cadre-style armies differ a lot from professional armies.

You don't need to have a lot of shots for a lot of the rear-echelon troops, who will spend most of their time learning the primary system they're using. Troops intended for combat of course would need to waste a lot more powder during training. And four months is probably too short to train for any larger troop cohesion. Individual skills, acting as a fire team, acting as a squad, acting as a platoon... that's probably at least four months worth, so no company or higher level maneuvers practiced outside the map room. Which means that officers might not be too well-prepared to face Mr. Murphy.

And then the cohort size. They're conscripting every male. That's a lot of more bodies than they can really use in a shooting war. For anything more complex, they'd need to keep re-training the old cohorts regularly, but why - because the new guys who just finished their training are available. Depending on unit composition, unless you scored high or received some more rare training, in a few years the replacement unit has been trained, and the previous unit is pushed into light infantry or auxiliary reserve.

Also, the troop composition is different in unit that pops out of universal male conscription. There are those who want to be in professional militaries and are some of the smartest people around... but for many, it's the option that's left. Whereas when everyone serves, you do get the full width of the bell curve in a unit. If trained right, these units can still be very effective.

The elephant in the room is that a lot of this works only if the cadre - that is, career military - are good at training. If they're stuck to WW II and the rest of the society has moved on, it will not be effective training.

Benchmarking: I served roughly 12 months. Six weeks basic training, six weeks elementary MOS stuff, six weeks specialization/NCO training, six weeks troop training/NCO training and then the same set again as a specialist / "you're an NCO, too - someone's ill, take that squad". Most common complaint was that from the rank &amp; file perspective the troop training is repetitive, because they've had intensive training for their skills, and then they just do the same thing over and over again. (Though tbh, full company assault with artillery support is kind of worth it in the end. No, I wasn't infantry, but it's pretty loud, you can't miss it if you're nearby.)

avataRJ

There seem to be a massive change in the narrative when relation with China worsened in last few years, before that the most common opinion within Taiwan and the US(coming straight from their DODs) is that Taiwan have no hope of defending itself and will hold for a few weeks at best without direct outside intervention and no amount of arms sale will change this.

Nowadays the popular narrative seem to be that of Taiwan being this omega fortress that will require the mother of all amphibious landing operation to invade and could hold off a direct landing indefinitely without outside intervention. Which is strange considering how much the PLA have grown since then and the capability gap have grown in favour of China.

I think the old narrative is too one sided and this shift will attract the attention of China, causing them to reevaluate and improve their amphibious capability.

HunterBidenX69

&gt;In other words, per their own doctrine, they cannot afford to cut away their flashy big ticket items because it would cause morale and confidence in the military to plummet. So where do they cut their budget?

This is true to an extent, but I think the ROC military's pursuit of capabilities and subsystems does make sense in context of their strategy.

The evolving ROC military strategy as I see it is:

* Hold sufficient air superiority, air defense and strike capabilities to try and degrade and attrit PLA air power to the best degree that they can, before the ROCAF can do so no longer. The ROCAF and ROC air defenses are unlikely to maintain air superiority and are very likely to eventually mostly destroyed, but if they can extract a pound of flesh from the PLA first, then it could quite meaningfully adversely affect the ease of the PLAAF's ability to conduct subsequent operations.
* Try to prevent or minimize the number of materiel and units that the PLA can bring to beach via amphibious lift, by engaging and focusing on PLA amphibious assault ships through the use of large numbers of AShMs (and going forwards, a refreshed SSK fleet). Of course, the PLA will have a significant naval and air escort for their amphibious fleet and would also seek and hunt down ROC ISR and anti shipping units and other related C4I units as best they can (while also of course, having sought to destroy ROCN and ROCAF prior to all this). But even despite that, a few lucky shots by AShMs or SSKs that get through a PLA escort screen could greatly complicate or even cripple a PLA amphibious assault force. ROC defenses can further of course deploy mines across the relevant, likely approaches to certain beaches -- in a conflict, the western side of the island is unlikely going to have their major ports operate for resupply anyway.
* Try to pursue some capable mechanized and artillery forces for their army, as a maneuver force designed to engage, contain and destroy whatever PLA amphibious units manage to land. Of course, these ROCA counter attacking forces would be subject to PLA fires from fixed wing, rotary wing and cross strait MLRS, as well as having to engage whatever landed PLA units to begin with (almost all of which these days have oriented to combined arms, and are increasingly networked themselves).... but even if ROCA counter attacking forces are badly bruised, if the landed PLA amphibious forces cannot maintain and hold a beachhead, then that will put the entire PLA operation behind a whole operational or even strategic planning cycle, depending on how much PLA amphibious reserves are left and how many amphibious assault ships remain.
* All of this in turn could buy Taiwan more time, and in turn potentially invite more substantial and persistent US support and/or intervention.

Note, how in this strategy, a heavy investment into a well funded, well trained and substantial military homeguard/reserve is not part of the strategy. I think this deals with the reality that ultimately no one really wants to fight "on the frontlines" especially on their own home soil.

But this strategy -- if successful -- means that there will not be much of a frontline on the ground, and instead it would be a war primarily fought by missiles.

The PLA of course have their own counters to such a strategy (many of which do not actually require significant advances in technology that they haven't already demonstrated), but my point is that the current ROC military priorities, are not illogical IMO.

PLArealtalk

it concerns me NCD would temp-ban you for valid criticism. like, I get that it could be seen as Chinese propaganda but this is a serious concern and shoving it under the rug helps nobody.

thinking_is_hard69

&gt;So, this kind of evolved out of when r/noncredibledefense banned me for 7 days after I posted a meme that the ROC military has way more in common with the Russian military than people realize.

Man, that subreddit has gone downhill since February. 

Don't have anything to add to the post, but that was an interesting read, thanks!

DecentlySizedPotato

Finally, someone who knows what they’re talking about. I would say that the ROC’s only shot at surviving a Chinese naval invasion would be a massive preemptive missile strike against the CSG/ESGs, but this is both impossible for political reasons and also because the PRC can just blockade the island and win without even firing a shot.

Slntreaper

I highly disagree with the assessment that the f16 is a bad investment. They probably lack capability in those weapons, but in a conflict with the pla, they'll want those aircraft. 

The reason being that if you are defending Taiwan, you want to maximize your advantages. That is their mountainous terrain and the strait of Taiwan. 

That means they want weapons to counter and cross strait traffic. So anti air weapons along with anti ship weapons. Having a fairly large airforce with a lot of ammram and harpoon missiles fulfills that mission along with a few diesel submarines and a few destroyers. 

Also, you'll want a lot of land based anti ship and anti aircraft missiles. 

Finally, your second layer of defense is mostly infantry that can work effectively in an urban and mountainous terrain. That means mostly infantry with manpads and anti tank missiles. You might want just a little bit of artillery to disrupt any amphibious assault, but any tanks and artillery will basically be useless if the pla gets a successful amphibious assault because they don't work well in mountainous terrain. 

And you'll want a lot of infantry because you'll want everyone in the island fighting in some way. So you want everyone to be conscripted at some point, even if they aren't well trained. Obviously, your want specialized, highly trained units, but the majority of fighters should be basically trained with the ability to do some crash courses in 3 months to get them up to fighting readiness. 

Nothing that you said seems to counteract the above statements other than Taiwan can be more effective. Probably boost their military budget and increasing their training budget along with some reorg. But I highly doubt it's as bad as you say as China does not have the capability for an amphibious assault and likely won't in the next decade. And that's without taking into account support from the USA.

OhSillyDays

This. This right here.

The sad thing is, as someone who lives in non-mainland China (I won't specify where), this attitude of complacency has only gotten worse. 

Many see the failure of Russia in Ukraine and equate China to Russia, that the PLA troops are incapable of holding a rifle properly, that they will drown in the Taiwan Strait due to poorly manufactured ships, or that they will surrender to the brave, liberty-loving defenders of Taiwan and break before the united forces of the Free World.

You'll also see news anchors and newspaper columnists deriding the Chinese in general as brainwashed smog-chugging commies, and craft lengthy scenarios on how Taiwan will crush the invaders just like Ukraine stopped the Russian advance. Thus, they argue, there is no fear of a Chinese invasion, as all that needs to be done is to "simply rally the people" and the masses will respond and drive the invaders into the sea.

The truth is far more grim. Imagine an enemy who has been taught his entire life to hate you, that has been taught since childhood that your property was originally his, but you stole it and occupied it. Now imagine nearly 1.5 billion people exactly like this enemy, and give them one of the largest M-I complexes on this planet. Even if just 10% of the population actually supports war, that's 150 million people willing to bleed or even die for the mere chance to hurt you, and they have equal or better gear than you.

China is a whole different animal compared to Russia. I'm not saying that China will simply steamroll Taiwan - any modern war will be costly, almost unbearably so, and China currently does not have the logistics needed to perform a D-day scale amphibious assault. Even if it did though, there will be losses, there will be fuck-ups. The cost will be high in terms of men and materiel, made all the more worse due to the aftereffects of the One-Child policy. But China has the sheer mass to take the hits, and the drive to do it anyway.

Side note: if Japan actually joins the war on Taiwan's side as the politicians are clamouring for - which is not likely - Taiwan is doomed. China will not stop until Taiwan and its allies are broken one way or another, as China has neither forgotten nor truly forgiven what the Japanese did in WW2. Having Japan join would be the one guaranteed way to silence the moderates and unite the people in support of war against the Hanjian (blood-traitors to the Chinese people).

Bellamy22761

Perhaps not suited for this thread, but a common talking point among Redditors is that the US would intervene in Taiwan to prevent the Chinese from getting their hands on TSMC.

But with TSMC building facilities in the US, does this incentive still hold up after their technologies are secure in the US and they can just scuttle their Taiwanese facilities in the event of an invasion?

AWildNome

well maybe air power is more important in island defence?

deagesntwizzles

The more I learn about it, the more I realize how corrupt, horrible, incompetent, evil Chiang Kai Shek aka Jiang Jieshi was. I mean... purging the one guy who is actually capable. I suspect the purging of General Sun Lijen may have been because he was American educated and thus seen as not Chinese enough or something. Although Dr. Sun Yat Sen was also American educated.

ilikedota5

So well-trained and well-equipped that they've been relegated to a island, instead of controlling dozens of provinces. 

We get a post about the state of the Taiwanese military every year or so. At the end of the day Taiwan exists because of the US. Taiwan is playing the far shrewder card by embedding itself into the American political sphere. Any military budget increase would be better spent as lobbying dollars in DC. The Americans have Taiwanese defense covered.

To be truly competent defensively, as many people wish they would be, Taiwan would be far better off reverting to a authoritarian military state like the good old days.

Reed2Ewing2Robinson

Has no one here heard of a CAPTOR mine?  The Taiwan straight would be contested as much below as above.

x_rabidsquirrel

I think youres vastly underestimating the the challenges China will face and the natural advantages being an island provides the Taiwanese

TheRed_Knight

Does it even matter if their military is good? In a shooting war, China wins. Better to have morale and confidence and win on the political and cultural fronts.

Mafinde

OP:

The reality is anything but. Taiwan'smilitary has become a **ghost of its former self.** It faces regularpersonnel shortage issues, poorly trained troops, a non-sensicalreserves system, and a terrifyingly lackluster maintenance and safetyrecord even during peacetime.

&amp;#x200B;

For a lot of reasons: the first oneis the army's own history vis-a-vis Taiwan's social hierarchy. The ROCarmy (ROCA) was formerly the armed wing of the KMT party. When Chiangand pals landed in Taiwan, the army became the armed thugs that enforcedKMT rule over the island. When martial law was lifted in '87, thecivilian government acted to defang the army as much as possible - whichleads to:

**But the wildest part about the whole ROCA is the fact that during themartial law period, the ROC made a deliberate choice to adopt a Soviet style army with political commissars**that remains to this day. To add insult to injury, they  even purgedGeneral Sun Lijen, who was a graduate of the Virginia Military Instituteand one of the few officers who conducted an effective resistanceagainst the IJA in WW2--both in China and in Burma--in order to do this.

So it sucked before or it sucked after Martial law? I smell anti-KMT bias here. Soviet Union was competent in WWII no? Muh dictatorship argument.

Um you need good fighters for island defense no? The military is underfunded I agree, but that is a funding issue not a competency one. The reserve program is just a symptom of a small nation threatened by a regional power. Every military and media lies by the way.

Spending money on land units and having conscripts make absolutely no sense for Taiwan. If the PLA lands in force it's time to start learning to write in traditional Chinese.

A war would be decided by missiles and the platforms to deliver them. And for that the lesson from the Ukraine war is to realize that Western MIC tends to sandbag their capabilities and authoritarian governments tend to boast about capabilities they don't actually have. Because of the nature of such capabilities it's easy to hide or pretend to have capabilities you don't.

Does it take 2 missiles or 200 missiles to sink the Chinese equivalent of the Moskva? That's the sort of thing which would decide such a Taiwanese war in the opening salvos.

Maybe in a decade or two China will catch up, but for now any any landing attempt would be suicide.

iemfi

Might as well study it to find weaknesses to exploit.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-simulating-invasion-on-main-island-says-taiwan-defence-ministry-3230103) reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)
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&gt; Taiwan accused the Chinese army of simulating an attack on its main island Saturday, as Beijing doubled down on its retaliation for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&amp;#039;s visit to Taipei after announcing a suspension of cooperation with Washington on key issues.

&gt; Beijing on Saturday continued some of its largest-ever military drills around Taiwan - exercises aimed at practicising a blockade and ultimate invasion of the island, analysts say.

&gt; Taipei said it observed &amp;quot;Multiple&amp;quot; Chinese planes and ships operating in the Taiwan Strait, believing them to be simulating an attack on the self-ruled democracy&amp;#039;s main island.


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autotldr

It is obvious that the exercise is for an invasion and not for defense.

bazillion_blue_jitsu

Real question, please eli5: if china does (idk correct way to phase this) attack/invade Taiwan with military force, would it be likely to see counties place/enforce sanctions on china like we’ve seen against Russia? Or is china too critical and we’d just pretend we didn’t see it happening?

Catothedk

What were they going to simulate? Invading Greenland?

giaa262

This is literally the whole point of Military exercises.  To prepare and train your Soldiers for likely scenarios.  Is there any scenario for the Chinese Military that is more likely than this one?

EverythingGoodWas

China demonstrating that they do not have control of Taiwan.

darthlincoln01

China's been doing amphibious landing exercises almost constantly for the last 5 years ever since they've built up sufficient amphibious hardware. As for wargaming/simulating/practicing an invasion they've been doing that since the 90s.

bigfatsothrowaway

Okay, so I'm not an expert on anything military, but wouldn't it be stupid to tell your "enemy" how you're going to attack them ?

China would respond "why would we simulate an attack on our own island? That doesnt make any sense"

dudleydigges123

A lot of experienced geopolitical war strategists here I see

AggravatingBite9188

Russia: We're not preping to invade Ukraine... we're performing military drills.
China: We're not preping to invade Taiwan... we're performing military drills.

billthorpeart

I’m sure the US Military is taking stock/notes of Chinese equipment and military strategy - better hope that the PLA has an alternative attack plan, otherwise AUKUS military intelligence certainly would have made the most of Xi’s temper tantrum.

Comfortable_Lemon105

Taiwan is used as a proxy in the China US confrontation. I don’t think any side is serious about going to war for this. China could not invade for the same reason that Napoleon and Hitler did not invade Great Britain, it’s too damn difficult. But it is a useful tool for diplomacy

Fair-Ad4270

So they put up a show to look strong because they felt insulted by an old lady. Big fucking deal. Pathetic

Isn’t that the whole point of drills????

lpukas2

As part of this ‘realistic’ exercise they need to ‘delete’ most of their ships to simulate losses to the US Navy.

Lahm0123

All this over your neighbor inviting some chick you don't like over for dinner.

vba77

Oh, China. The world is really getting sick of your shit.

Pretty sure that’s exactly what it’s meant to be…

Normal_Independent75

Looseticles

Well no shit...I'm sure the people looking out their fucking window watching those exercises could have told you that

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I’m of the opinion that the biggest threat to Taiwan’s preparedness now isn’t a land invasion or equipment, it’s dealing with a naval blockade and getting reservists ready back into the military. 

I had a friend who had Taiwanese citizenship and Singaporean PR so served in both and said Singapore is more prepared for war, which is concerning.

I also have relatives who did their service back when they dropped the requirement to 4 months. Imagine thinking you’re ready for war with China by training for 4 months. There’s basically an entire generation that didn’t undergo any meaningful training and won’t be prepared at all.

LittleBirdyLover

shitdog6969

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GetOutOfTheWhey

i don’t think land warfare will be the key in the upcoming war. let’s see how strong is taiwans anti missle dome system.

Difficult_Minute8202

Tanks are cool but easy targets. Guerilla warfare and anti-amphibious drills are more useful.

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能劝一个是一个。如果真打起来了，中国大陆还是很在意伤亡的，如果遇到坚决的抵抗，很可能会导弹火箭弹洗地。当然，如果相信于将军210%的防空系统的话当我没说。

Distinct-Painter-567

The biggest threat to taiwan is no land invasion but a naval blockade . A blockade of Taiwan by China is way more serious

emperor2885

Funny thing is china can get all US tech being sent to taiwan by leading in chip industry cz they can  just blockade taiwan and the world will just replace tsmc with chinese companies very easy and taiwan would be forced to make a deal maybe after a month or a few months .

Taiwan is just another outlet for the US to sell their overpriced weapons to.

And the Abrams are doing so so well in Ukraine /s

2GR-AURION

posting about Taiwan in r/china bc Taiwan province is part of China, chad move

yanniyi

Hmm... Need more footage, but from what is shown here, Taiwan does not have a chance. They're still parking tanks behind mounds. This doesn't work anymore.

immoralwalrus

Taipei recently conducted one of its largest civil defense exercises to prepare for a potential invasion by China, featuring city-wide evacuation drills and simulations of air raid scenarios.

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