Military Strategist Shows How China Would Likely Invade Taiwan | WSJ
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Published 2024-03-12
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)
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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...
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Half the people watching this: “A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be catastrophic!” The other half: “That game looks cool!”
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Did I just watch a 70 year old grandpa play a round of board game against himself?
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China casually seeing this and saying - "Hmmm. We should rethink our strategy and avoid this scenario" 🤣
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"Please stay conventional. Please stay conventional. Please stay conventional." - Everyone on the planet
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Ok can they actually sell this game though? It looks better than most of the current strategy games 😆
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He didn't even show us his 12-sided dice! For this game, I bet they're made of depleted uranium.
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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
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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.
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Surprised the U.S. bases in the Philippines weren't mentioned.
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Chinese should spend more time understanding how to pay their debts like real estate than worrying about relatives who left home and have paid their own.
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This is a completely avoidable scenario. No one should want the US & China to fight.
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It seems hexagons are the bestagons for war games.
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Did they roll dices for the outcomes of each battles lol
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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.
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Are these the same military experts who said the Ukraine invasion would only last a few days??
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This video barely gave any details. Might as well have showed a game of monopoly.
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HOI4 players, its our time to shine!
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This is same "Military Stratigist" that said "Russia will take Kyev in 3 days"...
