First of all this article is written by American authors for a very anti-China website. Only to make the China haters feel even more hate. They do this by taking statements out of their context.
Whoever thinks any gang on this planet can today beat China to a pulp and not be wiped out by hydrogen bombs delivered by ICBM, SLBM, and also by hypersonic and cruise missiles? Sure if such case happens, China is definitely non exist anymore and wiped out by thousands of nukes like the China haters dream about, but in reality whoever wants to even suggest that will have war the next day Whoever actually does that will also die and be wiped out. Nuclear weapons? Of course. Chemical + Bio + neutron bomb all coming your way too. Have you noticed USA never once dared to even suggest war with China after Korean war. Not a single time. This is why there will be no ganging up to fight China. They will promise the fate that everyone including themselves and China will die horrible death. China has no restriction on Uranium enrichment and plenty of supply to even exceed Russia and USA stockpile within a few years. It's pointless already to keep spending so much on keeping nuclear weapons around during non tension times. If war is being threatened, defense budget can go up to 20% GDP and even if we only build warheads and detonate inside China, no one will see the sun for the short time they have left before radiation poisoning. The only real hubris here is the people who think USA + gang can afford to even threaten China. Already that they cannot dare. To fight... ahhh they are in a dream.
Also nobody knows if Taiwan can hold China for 1 year or 1 hour. You definitely have no clue. I think they can hold for about 1 day and then will fall... most likely less. They cannot stop the thousands of cruise missiles already. How can they stop the hundreds of ballistic missiles too? Then the fighters and bombers. Then the land invasion? Truth is China keeps warning Taiwan from announcing independence as China. We are okay with Taiwan as it is. We are not okay with Taiwan saying they are real China officially. Because it then becomes that they are real legitimate China and Chinese government. Then what about the over 1 billion Chinese people on the mainland? You see. This is political, historical, and philosophic identity matters. China will not invade Taiwan. We do not want war, especially against our family. We do want peaceful reunification with Taiwan in future williing to rejoin the future Chinese system and evolved government. Maybe that will take time but we have time. As long as in this time, Taiwan doesn't feel too high and declare themselves as independent legitimate China and continuation of Chinese government since pre-cultural revolution. This author of this article is again having political agenda to flame the tension.
For Taiwanese F-16? How many do they have? They need airfields and missiles. How many missiles can they carry in one go? How much support? How about reloading? Even if each missile finds a J-7 target or even say a J-20 or J-16 or J-10C, how will they land onto a destroyed airfield that took 100 bombs + 20 cruise missiles + 2 ballistic missiles? Come on. Even this is worst case possibility for China side. In reality, J-10A already good enough to match F-16 in RCAF. Maybe if they receive F-21 it's different story but they still don't have unlimited missiles and safe bases. You make it sound like F-16 is wonder weapon. Even if Taiwan and China have war and Taiwan has 100 F-22. It will not change the result. PLAAF will take much more damage but F-22 alone also run on fuel also has limit to payload also has limited range and time in air also has limited readiness maybe even less than 50% also requires a day of maintenance for a few days of action. These are amazing weapons but they are not one wonder weapon to change everything.