Suika
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The tittle should change to: China is believed to be encircled by a bunch of earthworms.
I merely state the FACT that there is no way that Japanese navy/airforce could match PLA navy/airforce, and we don't even need to bring PLA's massively overkilling super-weapons that aiming at flatten the US navy to this rather one-sided match-up.
As for Taiwan, it is Xi's open secret that he want to take back Taiwan in the timeframe of 202X, so the scenario I suggested is quite likely anyway.
You're free to believe what you want with military comparison. How often has he pro-CCP posters trolled on other points? No reason to not assume they'll just troll on military aspect.
But to the side of that is also the belief about might makes right. Dispite the many points that show how Taiwan is not PRC, the CCP continues a policy stating that it is. That thinkng means that the PRC is in no right in mind to lament about "century of humiliation". Of course, before that, Qing was doing its own expansionism anyway in all honesty.
But if you must run down a military comparision, the situation would be PRC's attempt to using military force to occupy and conque Taiwan. Do you really think the PRC can successfully maintain an encirclement on the island? Do you really think the PRC is able to establish air superiority over Taiwan? Based on current PRC military procurement, when do you think that ability will be reached?
Sure Japan can still make the same claim just as China did. But while China did not challenge Japanese patrol before, the situation has turned 180 degree after the decision to "nationalize" the island that it can no longer exercise actual control over the area. It is pretty similar in Ladakh where "unionization" has made matter worse for the Indians.
There was no duspute on the Senkaku islands throughout the 1950s and 1960s. PRC put thst claim in early 1970s. So it was right for Japan to stand up fir itself. If relations get worse because of it, it is on the fault of the PRC.