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☆ A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would depend on seizing its ports. That won't be easy.
  + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
AdvertisementA Chinese invasion of Taiwan must focus on seizing a port to bring in tanks and supplies. Related Video China shows how it would attack Taiwan as tensions riseAs it contemplates an invasion of Taiwan, China is well aware of this problem. And beach assaults like D-Day come with the risk that Taiwanese troops could bottle up the attackers. Once it is captured, Chinese forces will dig in to resist a counterattack, while engineers repair the docks and clear the shipping lanes. In the end, the fate of an invasion of Taiwan turns on which side controls the ports.
Persons: Ian Easton, Easton, Horatio Nelson, Michael Peck Organizations: China Maritime Studies, US Naval War, Army, People's Liberation Army, Getty, PLA, Communist Party, Taiwan, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Taiwan, China, Easton, AFP, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Mailiao, Taipei, Dieppe, France, Normandy, Brest, Cherbourg, Forbes
☆ A US invasion of Taiwan in WWII would have been a disaster. A Chinese operation faces similar dangers.
  + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
AdvertisementThe US once planned an invasion and seizure of Taiwan that would have been as big as D-Day. The CMSI study makes clear that a US invasion of Taiwan in 1945 — or a Chinese invasion today — would be difficult and risky. The objective would be to occupy southern Taiwan and the mainland Chinese port of Xiamen across the Taiwan Strait. US troops suffered 50,000 casualties in two months of hard fighting in the Okinawa invasion. "Taiwanese military officers pay close attention to history, and especially the history of island warfare, urban warfare, and amphibious warfare," said Easton.
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☆ Taiwan's remote islands are on the frontline with China — sometimes only a few hundred yards from Chinese troops
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Taiwan is roughly 100 miles from mainland China, but some Taiwanese islands are much closer. Taiwan's outlying islands would stand little chance against China, but they wouldn't be easy to take. While celebrated, this year's anniversary was also a reminder of Taiwan's islands' growing vulnerability to Chinese attack. Taiwan's islands are much easier to reach. Tourists watch a Chinese military helicopter fly over Pingtan Island, one of mainland China's closest points to Taiwan, on August 4.
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