Why isn't China launching its own special operation in Taiwan?
The cases of Taiwan and Ukraine are, in fact, very different.
Despite the fact that Taiwan, like Ukraine, is under the American military-political umbrella, it remains part of China.
In a cultural and political sense.
The Taiwanese are not de-sinification at home, they are not trying to impose an alternative Taiwanese identity on their citizens.
There are, as it were, two Chinas that have gone down different paths, but both realize that sooner or later they will be together.
In Taiwan, besides the nationalists from the Kuomintang, who, having lost the civil war to the communists of Mao Zedong, created a state on a neighboring island, there are even parties advocating integration with the PRC.
Chinese airports have separate terminals called Special Chinese Territories (special Chinese territories), from there planes fly from China to Macau, Hong Kong and ... to Taiwan.
Hong Kong and Macau, former colonies of Britain and Portugal, have already become part of mainland China.
Moreover, the Chinese left them autonomy and a special status.
Why break Hong Kong, which has become the financial and digital center of Asia, and the profitable gambling business in Macau, when you can make money on it?
Taiwan also understands that in the event of integration with China, no one will create a second Beijing there, but, most likely, they will retain local self-government.
The Chinese know how to wait, their planning horizon is centuries, not five years.
In their plans, Taiwan, like Hong Kong, is China.
You just have to wait a little.
Ten, 20, 50 years - it doesn't matter.
Moreover, it does not pose any threat to China, which is Ukraine for Russia.
Well, one more important point.
The PLA - the Chinese People's Army - has no experience of waging serious wars at all.
In World War II, the Chinese were defeated by the Japanese with one hand.
Then, hardened by the war with the Americans, Vietnam easily withstood the Chinese onslaught.
In Korea, the Chinese opposed the Americans with the support of the USSR, at that time the strongest army in the world.
A Chinese military invasion of well-armed Taiwan and a possible clash with the American army there could result in heavy losses.
And even a thousand coffins will shock the entire Chinese society, where the life of any Chinese is elevated to absolute value.
In addition, the current changes in the world in connection with the NWO in Ukraine, the cold war between the West and Russia play into the hands of China politically and economically.
Why would a sharp and reckless move like the invasion of Taiwan drastically change the favorable situation for the country?
No, no matter how much someone would like to open a second front against the West in Taiwan, this will definitely not happen in the near future.
It is completely unprofitable for China.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.