US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion

Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by solveit on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:25AM (#26383082)

Perhaps the Falklands war? Argentina circa 1982 was stagnating but still about the 20th largest economy in the world. Taiwan is also sitting at about 20 right now.

Of course, a PRC/ROC war is likely to be much much more serious than the relatively minor conflict that was the Falklands war.

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Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by Apocryphon on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:36AM (#26383136)

I'd think that Argentina of the junta wasn't quite as important economically as Taiwan is now, but I'd have to research to compare that. I would also imagine Taiwan's HDI is quite higher to Argentina's was back then. Another factor of note is that the junta was going through a shaky transitional period while Taiwan's democracy is fairly stable. Not to mention that while mostly diplomatically unrecognized, democratic Taiwan probably isn't a pariah in the same way a military autocracy like Argentina was.

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Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by goodcanadian on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:49AM (#26383211)

Also, Argentina did not attack the UK proper nor did the UK attack Argentina. It was a very limited sort of war.

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Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by Koiwai on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:38AM (#26383152)

In this scenario, the better analogy would be US - UK, China - Argentina, Taiwan - Falklands, think again with that in mind.

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