Quote Originally Posted by RollingWave View Post

China would actually have a pretty difficult time taking Taiwan under the current circumstances, and their base setup in the SE coast reflect that, it's more defensive than anything else. their ability to project power onto Taiwan on a moment's notice is very very limited (aka do it before the USA can react) . and obviously if they want to really put enough pieces on the table to seriously attack, then the US would have long have made the decision to either showdown or backdown (and it's rather unlikely to be the later). If there's a country that it really CAN invade and said country probably would have a hard time standing much of a chance right now it's Mongolia, but that's a different can of worms.

As long as the USA doesn't officially (or secretly agree to) politically give up on Taiwan, the odds of China invading it is about the same as it's willingness to us nukes to do it.
Does China have reason to invade Mongolia? Are there metals or oil there?