Taiwan-Invasion War Game by US Think Tank Sees China Quickly Flopping
- DC think tank says US subs, aircraft would exact costly toll
- But defending Taiwan would come at a ‘high cost’ to the US too
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A hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan “quickly founders” but exacts high costs on the island democracy and the US Navy, according to the results of an extensive set of war games released Monday by a Washington think tank.
Despite “massive Chinese bombardment, Taiwanese ground forces stream to the beachhead, where the invaders struggle to build up supplies and move inland” as “US submarines, bombers, and fighter aircraft, often reinforced by Japan Self-Defense Forces, rapidly cripple the Chinese amphibious fleet,” in the “most likely” scenario, the Center for Strategic and International Studies concluded.