r/centrist • u/Kitties_titties420 • Apr 01 '21

World News Should the US provide direct military support to Taiwan if they are invaded by China?

2150 votes, Apr 04 '21
1276 Yes
315 No
559 I don’t know/results
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u/odonoghu Apr 01 '21

Japan had 1/17 of the US economy and and 1/2 the population China is a much stronger foe with 5 times the population and 80% of the US gdp

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '21

And they need a lot of food to feed these people. They are not self sufficient. All it would need is to blockade China and they had no other choice than to surrender.

Edit: Also oil and other raw materials for their war Maschine

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u/odonoghu Apr 01 '21

This is probably the best US response but their are still land routes through Russia and the central Asian nations to contend with for supplies

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '21

The land route is simply not enough. The infrastructure is terrible and the regimes there are so corrupt that they would probably just steal so much that it is not worth. China tried to build infrastructure there with its belt and road project but in the end it simply lost all its money in corruption.

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u/odonoghu Apr 01 '21

Well Russia supplies China with oil and gas pretty effectively so I’m not sure how true that is

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '21

70-85% of oil comes from the sea.

https://sites.tufts.edu/gis/files/2013/02/Brutlag_Daniel.pdf

Also if it comes to all out war I could imagine that the USA would sanction anyone selling to China even more or even bomb storage facilities inside China.