Mushroom
Gold Member
Many of you have written about the possible lack of support if Taiwan was ever invaded, but what is never mentioned is the fact Australia, South Korea and Japan will get involved and possibly India seeing the invasion of Taiwan would be a direct threat to those nations…
Even if the US stays out, that will be a fustercluck of huge proportions for China if they did.
Expect most of Europe to immediately embargo all goods to and from China. The militaries of multiple countries, including the UK, French, Japan, Australia, and most likely a lot of the Commonwealth to move in to one degree or another. India also, as well as Vietnam, the Philippines, and I could think of 3 or 4 that are very likely to also take place (South Korea foremost among them). And that is all without the US doing anything.
Some people are rather stupid, in thinking that the US rules the world. They do not, and even if the US remains neutral, expect them to do like what they did with the UK during their little spat with Argentina 40 years ago.
And no matter what, even if they somehow won, China would have an economy in complete shambles. They are more dependent on the raw materials and money they get from trade than the world is on their cheep goods. And they would very quickly learn how replaceable they are as a lot of the work they now do returns to other countries.