Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Invading Taiwan? Only 1% Would Choose to Join the Battle, While 99% Prefer to Remain “Lying Flat”" video.

  1. A fairly good appraisal with some more caveats. In 1941, the Japanese Showa Empire, did have a superior carrier strike force in comparison to the US in the Pacific. At the outbreak of the Pacfic War, the IJN had 6 carriers in comparison to the USN's 3, although the IJN had only double the aircraft over the slightly larger USN carriers, but with superior IJN planes, torpedoes and pilots (at the beginning of the Pacific War), the first year possibility of a crippling naval defeat was touch-and-go with the Americans (even with the JN25 crypography advantage) in that war. We all know how the Pacific War went for Japan. Now, the PLAN dares to "challenge" the USN with 11 nuclear powered supercarriers, versus 2 Soviet 1980s designed smaller diesel powered carriers, and a newer diesel powered flatbed carrier showing cracks on the decking near the fantail, with at least 6 times the planes of the USN carrier strike force with superior stealth design? As a naval force multiplier, the PLAN doesn't even rate to the 2 UK's Royal Navy nuclear powered supercarriers. It's a suicide show to contemplate naval war against the USN in the Pacific now.
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  2. What is really interesting is the current CCP's belligerent ultra-nationalist focus of forced unification with Taiwan (re-unification is wrong; the CCP has never ruled this island) has focussed critical thinkers and Chinese students on the society and government of Taiwan as a whole; a mainly ethnic Chinese country. To their suprise they discover that life for even the ordinary person in Taiwan is a great deal better off than any ordinary person in mainland China, and that society is freer and better ordered there, and people are overall significantly wealthier with effective governnment social support programs that don't exist in China. By this stark contrast of their own situation in China with Taiwan, the students and critical thinkers wake up to the corruption, inepitude, waste of resources and stark dystopian poverty which is most of mainland CCP China now, and prefigures the oppression there. Even Hong Kong now. This makes Taiwan look good and (mainly) Chinese (the native Taiwanese, a Pacific islander people, also get benefits and inclusions in democratic Taiwan). Why attack it then? Also, why historically shouldn't Taiwan rule China now? It's a 70 year unresolved issue from the Chinese Civil War, which the Communists won at the time, while the KMT nationalists retreated to Taiwan. Who will ultimately rule China? One now hopes it will eventually be Taiwan. That's what the CCP really fears.
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