Taiwan Invasion ??, page-7

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    Most unlikely.
    Consider family size 1930 5
    China one child policy. Soldier dies family tree is pruned.

    Distance to Taiwan 160 kilometres over open waters.
    Distance to Normandy 1944 35 kilometres.
    6,939 ships and landing vessels, and 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders that delivered airborne troops.
    The Western Allies had two practices before D Day. North Africa and Scilly, plus all the lessons of amphibious landings in the Pacific.
    To control a population the ratio of 1 soldier to 40 civilians. That means China needs to put ashore 650000 troops.
    Does China have the ability and the commitment from the troops. After the dust up with India in Kashmir the answer would have to be no.
 
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