Timeline for What are the potential strategic/economic gains of China for taking over Taiwan (with military invasion or not)?
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| Apr 10, 2022 at 18:26 | history | edited | Therac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2022 at 18:18 | comment | added | No One | @JoeyJoystick "US is by agreement bound to help Taiwan". Well, due to their strategic ambiguity, it is possible that U.S. only helps Taiwan with weapons and sanctions on China like for Ukraine but not with real U.S. troops. It is a still question how much sacrifice U.S. could afford for helping Taiwan with Korean war in 1950s in mind. | |
| Apr 10, 2022 at 15:56 | comment | added | Therac | @JoeyJoystick I think this possibility might exist sometime in the future - it could be 20 or 50 years from now, it could be some black swan event, who knows. But I've edited to insert the point that the US is currently under treaty obligations to help Taiwan. So this applies only if that changes. | |
| Apr 10, 2022 at 15:53 | history | edited | Therac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2022 at 15:02 | comment | added | Joey Joystick | Sorry for the downvote, but you allowed for the possibility of the US not helping Taiwan. This is wrong, because the US is by agreement bound to help Taiwan. But seriously, if you only keep the picture and the paragraph after the picture you got the answer to the question spot on. I actually wanted to put that down as an answer, but no point now. lol. It's worth noting though that in the North, China faces a very similar issue with the island of Russia and Japan, some of which are disputed as well. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 0:40 | comment | added | Readin | You have some points. I think you should add that shipping lanes from Japan and South Korea to Europe, India, and oil producing countries go past Taiwan. In future conflicts and negotiations China would be able to use Taiwan to control those trade routes and make economic life difficult for South Korea and Japan. | |
| Mar 11, 2022 at 10:15 | history | answered | Therac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |