Military Strategist Shows How China Would Likely Invade Taiwan | WSJ

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Published 2024-03-12
What was once unthinkable—direct conflict between the United States and China—has now become a commonplace discussion in the national security community as tensions continue to escalate between Taiwan and China. Two big indicators that cause analysts concern is Xi Jinping saying Taiwan belongs to Beijing and will be reunified and their massive military buildup over the past 20 years.

WSJ spoke with the CSIS’s Mark Cancian, who lays out the outcome of a potential war in the Taiwan Strait based on the organization's recent wargames.

Chapters:
0:00 China-Taiwan tensions rising
1:00 Background on Taiwan
2:02 The war game

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All Comments (21)
  • @wsj
    China plans to boost its military spending by 7.2% this year as Xi Jinping continues to modernize the armed forces. Read more about Beijing’s plan to continue to build up its military: on.wsj.com/3uWnu1K
  • @Almagesto25
    In the Pentagon's underground facilities there is a secret room where trainees play Age of Empires II, Civilization VI, Victoria II, Europa Universalis, Star Craft etc...
  • @rauserbegins5850
    Half the people watching this: “A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be catastrophic!” The other half: “That game looks cool!”
  • @dalee2419
    Did I just watch a 70 year old grandpa play a round of board game against himself?
  • @catatonicbug7522
    He didn't even show us his 12-sided dice! For this game, I bet they're made of depleted uranium.
  • @rugbynimbus
    "Please stay conventional. Please stay conventional. Please stay conventional." - Everyone on the planet
  • @BulkMasterFlex
    Ok can they actually sell this game though? It looks better than most of the current strategy games 😆
  • @arijitnaskar8854
    China casually seeing this and saying - "Hmmm. We should rethink our strategy and avoid this scenario" 🤣
  • @forrestallison1879
    You know the worst part of this whole situation? I've just been to Taiwan for the first time and it's a whole country of extremely polite, quiet, nice people, with a highly functional Democratic government and a beatiful and highly modern country. It's exactly what China could be if it hadn't had the cultural revolution. It's just an amazing place and for this enclave of polite and functional Chinese culture to be lost to the CCP is just a nightmare
  • @jlee4768
    Surprised the U.S. bases in the Philippines weren't mentioned.
  • @PleaseGetReal
    I played one of these hexagon turn-based war games a few decades ago. It took more than 30 minutes to set up and over four to eight hours to finish the game. After playing for three hours, it became too boring, a truce was declared and all the pieces go straight back to the box and never to be seen again.
  • @Satoshi_Kirisaki
    This is a war where one side talks about fighting but is afraid to fight, While the other side fears it will lose but will not lose.
  • @tjk3430
    This is a completely avoidable scenario. No one should want the US & China to fight.
  • @bernard1799
    It seems hexagons are the bestagons for war games.
  • @mpa324
    What are the system requirements to play the game?
  • @igor_pavlovich
    This is same "Military Stratigist" that said "Russia will take Kyev in 3 days"...
  • @dawuid1491
    Did they roll dices for the outcomes of each battles lol
  • @MacrosFTW
    This video barely gave any details. Might as well have showed a game of monopoly.
  • @ShadowMonkey71
    WSJ should've leaned into the game board aspect and included animations or representations of the fighting and casualties. This was way too dry.