As the title says, what would it take for the US to establish a permanent presence on Taiwan comparable to OTL's USFJ/USFK?
Marc A
Marc A
As the title says, what would it take for the US to establish a permanent presence on Taiwan comparable to OTL's USFJ/USFK?
Since it's still our territory by international law and 55% of Taiwanese wanted US statehood in a 2003 poll, we could just actively state that they're an incorporated territory awaiting a statehood vote.
Sorry what? By international law it is Chinese Territory.Since it's still our territory by international law...
I personally have a hard time believeing that. Do you have a source?
Yeah, a limited nuclear exchange in East Asia could definitely do it.![]()
Of course, but it always feels kind of half-assed when someone offers up a nuclear exchange as the best way to answer an AHC. It's way more fun and challenging to try and keep things non nuclear, as it were.
A coup which removes Chiang and declares Taiwan independent sometime soon after the Korean war should do it. I believe there actually was an attempt to do just that in 1955.