Russia took back Crimea so why shouldn't China take back Taiwan?

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

In 1954 Khrushev took Crimea out of Russia and gave it to Ukraine. Russia never accepted that. Russia took 60 years to take back Crimea. China claims Taiwan as a province. So why shouldn't China take back Taiwan by surrounding Taiwan and forcing Taiwan to surrender?

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

@pakistanipower @nahtanbob @gambit @vostok @F-22Raptor

 

[Taskforce]

Because China isn’t Russia.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Because China isn’t Russia.

China is more powerful than Russia.

 

[Taskforce]

China is more powerful than Russia.

Perhaps stronger against unarmed minorities. Facing Taiwan is another ball game. You need superiority in navy to reach Taiwan, otherwise the Japanese and American navy will put Chinese troops on the bottom of the ocean before you can reach Taiwan.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Perhaps stronger against unarmed minorities. Facing Taiwan is another ball game. You need superiority in navy to reach Taiwan, otherwise the Japanese and American navy will put Chinese troops on the bottom of the ocean before you can reach Taiwan.

Yup. That's why China is frantically buildings carriers and Type 055 destroyers.

 

[Taskforce]

Yup. That's why China is frantically buildings carriers and Type 055 destroyers.

China will have to face Japanese and American navy but probably other navies too. It is out of reach for China.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

China will have to face Japanese and American navy but probably other navies too. It is out of reach for China.

America and Japan won't fight China. They are election countries. China is not. Taiwan will either fight or surrender, just like Crimea.

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

Perhaps stronger against unarmed minorities. Facing Taiwan is another ball game. You need superiority in navy to reach Taiwan, otherwise the Japanese and American navy will put Chinese troops on the bottom of the ocean before you can reach Taiwan.

sure good joke. China had enough land base anti ship missiles to even sink small boats along with all coalition ships.
and both are nuclear powers too.
The reason china is not invading taiwan is that china want to influence the region through economy and then isolate taiwan.

 

[nahtanbob]

Yup. That's why China is frantically buildings carriers and Type 055 destroyers.

during world war 2 the US Navy sent more tonnage of enemy warships to the ocean floor than china can ever build

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

during world war 2 the US Navy sent more tonnage of enemy warships to the ocean floor than china can ever build

Irrelevant. In WW2 America lost half a million men. No way the US public would support losing 1 man over Taiwan. Taiwan has no value to America.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

Wait a few years taiwanese people themselves will vote to be part of one china again. They are alrrady impressed by living standards oppertunities and facilities available in mainland china. Its only a few years before taiwanese people start traveling to mainland and want to be involved with chinese brothers. After all taiwan is not a seperate country just a small island of Chinese people.

China shall be one again and without war. Chinese people of taiwan will themselves be part of china in a referendum soon.

Thats somewhat similar to what happened in crimea the population voted to be part of russia . no one in the world would be able to stop this once local population themselves want to be part of a bigger stronger nation.

 

[Jackdaws]

The Russians are a military superpower. They also have a lot of self belief and pride. The Chinese are incompetent and in general scoffed at. The Chinese also have a mental block against colonizers - they did nothing about HK and Macau either - just waited for leases to run out.

 

[Placemat]

Not as simple as that. It was a fight between communist and democratic systems. Probably if China declares herself to be democratic it will have better credentials to attack Taiwan. Other way to look at it is , Taiwan can claim whole of China and ccp as one of the political party.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

Not as simple as that. It was a fight between communist and democratic systems. Probably if China declares herself to be democratic it will have better credentials to attack Taiwan. Other way to look at it is , Taiwan can claim whole of China and ccp as one of the political party.

Taiwan already claims whole of china and mongolia and hong kong and macau and some russian regions in the north. They are practically chinese just not under ccp rule.