re: What Measure of U.S. Response Do You Support When China Moves on Taiwan?

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1. World’s largest navy (400+ ships by 2025, including 3 carriers).

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This keeps getting thrown around, but we have them beat over 4:1 in combat tonnage. Plus, China has NEVER been a maritime power. They simply don't know how to do it....which is why England, France, Russia, and Japan have always had their way with them.

Our best course of action would probably be just to close the Strait of Malacca and Timor Sea and keep it closed until such a time as Xi abdicated power AND China completely disarms. Keep in mind that China imports 75% of their energy and 75% of their food and agricultural inputs through that waterway. With it closed, China loses half their population to famine in under a year.

I just don't see China making that move. They'll never take the semiconductor fab facilities intact and wouldn't know how to operate them even if they did. All they'd get is a small mountainous island with no natural resources and 25 million mouths to feed. Could Xi try anyway because he's an egomaniac? Sure. But it'll be the end of Xi and the end of China.