Predictions of if/when China claims Taiwan by force?

[FreedomTruth]

China Stages Massive Live-Fire Encirclement Drill Around Taiwan as Washington and Japan Fortify

Taiwan says 89 Chinese military aircraft and 28 PLA Navy and coast guard vessels surged into the island’s air and maritime approaches.

www.thebureau.news

Regional reporting and analysis have framed the drill as a warning shot aimed not only at Taipei but at the alliance architecture around it—especially as Japanese leaders and planners speak more openly about a “Taiwan contingency” and expand defense spending and capabilities that Beijing portrays as destabilizing.

A third is the longer arc Beijing itself has helped set.

U.S. officials have repeatedly stated their assessment that Xi Jinping has directed the PLA to be capable of taking Taiwan by force by 2027—a milestone that continues to shape planning assumptions across the region.

The article makes it sound like the U.S. and Japan are preparing for 2027.

 

[RightOfSask]

2027/28.
Or alternatively when the economy hits the shitter in China.

 

[Hirudinea]

Nothing like a good war to make people ignore a depression.

 

[RightOfSask]

Nothing like a good war to stop civil unrest.

 

[416_Refugee]

@RightOfSask Nothing like a good war to thin out the excess males.

 

[bobthefighter]

TwO m0aR w3eKs

 

[Hirudinea]

China Stages Massive Live-Fire Encirclement Drill Around Taiwan as Washington and Japan Fortify

Taiwan says 89 Chinese military aircraft and 28 PLA Navy and coast guard vessels surged into the island’s air and maritime approaches.

www.thebureau.news

The article makes it sound like the U.S. and Japan are preparing for 2027.

FreedomTruth
Well if you want any new electronics you'd better buy them this year.

 

[brutana_dilewski]

 

[TheGreatestState]

How about this title:

Predictions of if/when China claims Canada by force?​

 

[Hirudinea]

Physically? Never. Politically? Already has.

 

[TheGreatestState]

Indeed! I was just trying to make a funny.

 

[Thinker]

Not anytime soon. It still import majority of its food from NATO countries it will be death wish if they ever invade Taiwan.

They are going to continue with economic encirclement of Taiwan.

 

[416_Refugee]

Yeah, it's not China's style to be outright aggressive, they are smart enough to know that warfare is too costly these days with limited return. They prefer economic conquest.

 

[ChevChelios]

"Never use military force to conquer an enemy until it has already committed economic suicide through limitless money-printing and importing vast numbers of barbarians from the Third World"

(Sun Tzu, "The Art of War" (C. Chelios translation))

 

[Trudeaus coke dealer]

I don't see it taken by force. Most likely they will jew Taiwan right out from under their feet. There will be lots of posturing and red lines mind you.

I figure China wants more clay than just Taiwan so doesn't want to bee seen as acting aggressively until more powerful. They want to replace America as global hegemon and being viewed as wild attack dogs is counter productive when trying to contrast with American power.

Should they take Taiwan by force I expect them to stage some kind of false flag to justify it.