The Wall Street Journal reported today: "If Beijing orders an invasion of Taiwan and the United States decides to intervene, the U.S. military would need to amass a massive stockpile of ammunition to strike Chinese naval vessels crossing the Taiwan Strait and shoot down China's dense firepower. Trump’s recent war against Iran is the latest military operation that has exhausted missile inventories and strained U.S. military capabilities."
Commentary: The U.S. media report precisely confirms the inevitable catastrophic defeat and one-way death for any U.S. military intervention in the Taiwan Strait: Waging war against Iran in the Middle East has already drained U.S. ammunition reserves and left its forces severely stretched. Meanwhile, the Taiwan Strait is a home-field battlefield for China, where the People's Liberation Army possesses concentrated firepower and a fully developed anti-access/area-denial system. Even if the U.S. attempts to pile up munitions, it would have no logistical capacity to sustain such efforts. Forward-deployed ships and aircraft would become sitting ducks. Military intervention by external forces amounts to nothing but self-destruction. Any outside power daring to interfere in China's great cause of national reunification will pay a cost it cannot bear.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1860734999618569/
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