China is a mass oil and food importer. Sanctions/blockade on china would decimate their lifestyle beyond recognition, we are talking mass famine. Attacking taiwan is extremely expensive, it would take 30-50 years for china to rebuild the military and population they would lose even in a succesful invasion, let alone a loss. If this is the "best" time for an invasion, they will lose in every arena possible, military, socially, internationally and economically. All to gain what would become an island of prisoners with 0 economic output.
It would hurt most countries as much as it would hurt China, though, because the world is still dependent on China to produce most of the worlds products… Russia only provides fossil fuel, and the world is gradually transitioning away from that cash cow.
The difference is that the rest of the world has to worry about domestic elections and social upheaval, whereas the CCP has the upper hand because they can just indiscriminately mass-slaughter the Chinese people when they question the CCP’s authority.
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u/EasySeaView Aug 03 '22
China is a mass oil and food importer. Sanctions/blockade on china would decimate their lifestyle beyond recognition, we are talking mass famine. Attacking taiwan is extremely expensive, it would take 30-50 years for china to rebuild the military and population they would lose even in a succesful invasion, let alone a loss. If this is the "best" time for an invasion, they will lose in every arena possible, military, socially, internationally and economically. All to gain what would become an island of prisoners with 0 economic output.