China’s Taiwan Military Option – How and Why?

Recent US-Chinese tensions centered on Taiwan has raised the prospect of a military confrontation.

Let’s try to answer the following questions: How and why would China launch military operations in regards to Taiwan? What sort of capabilities does the Chinese military possess?

References + Time Stamps:

@00:00 Intro: How the US is Trying to Prevent Reunification & Provoke a War:

@00:46 NBC – War Games: The Battle for Taiwan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYfvm…

@03:07 Wilson Center – Joint Communique between the United States and China (1972):
https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.o…

@04:30 US State Department – U.S. Relations with Taiwan (2022):
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-w…

@06:17 Harvard’s Atlas of Economic Complexity – Taiwan 2019:
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore…

@09:56 Military Review – Deterring the Dragon (2020):
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journ…
Voice of America – US Nearly Doubled Military Personnel Stationed in Taiwan This Year (December 2021):

@15:04
https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-us…

@16:37 Preparations:

@19:20 USNWC – Logistics Support for a Cross-Strait Invasion:
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi…

@20:42 Business Insider – China’s air force has big plans for its biggest planes (Y-20):
https://www.businessinsider.com/china…

@22:07 RAND Corporation – War with China, Thinking Through the Unthinkable (2016):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand…

@23:04 RUSI – The Return of Industrial Warfare:
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research…

@26:48 Chinese Military Operations: Overview:

@31:13 Election Study Center, National Chengchi University – Taiwan Independence vs. Unification with the Mainland(1994/12~2022/06):
https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detai…

@31:54 Key Chinese Military Capabilities:

@34:31 Diplomat – Russia Completes Delivery of Second S-400 Regiment to China:
https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/russi…

@38:37 CSIS – How Are China’s Land-based Conventional Missile Forces Evolving?:
https://chinapower.csis.org/conventio…

@39:35 CSIS – Missiles of China:
https://missilethreat.csis.org/countr…

@46:00 Business Insider – China’s new rocket launcher system is its most powerful ever, and it’s looming over the Taiwan Strait (Type PCL-191 launcher):
https://www.insider.com/chinas-new-ro…

@48:12 Army Recognition – First combat use of Chinese made VT4 tanks:
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defen…

@48:40 USNWC – CHINESE EVALUATIONS OF THE U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE FORCE (2008):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2639…

@49:24 The National Interest – How One Argentine Submarine Kept The Royal Navy At Bay During The Falklands War:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buz…

@52:14 CSIS – Are China’s Military Logistics Better Than the Russian Military’s?:
https://youtu.be/WCrQvQZ3i8g

Conclusions

@55:01 US National Endowment for Democracy – Taiwan’s Destiny:
https://www.ned.org/taiwans-destiny/

US NED – Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Taipei:
https://www.ned.org/taiwan-foundation…

@56:08 Forbes – The Countries With The Most STEM Graduates [Infographic]:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmcc…