Here's What The Pentagon Thinks A Chinese Attack On Taiwan Would Look Like

A Pentagon report to Congress on China's military capabilities delves into one of international politics' perennial nightmare scenarios: what if China decided to retake the island of Taiwan by force? This grim thought experiment appears in the Defense Department's annual report on "Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China." Taiwan has been governed separately from mainland China ever since the Chinese civil war in the late 1940s. Under U.S. law, Taiwan is st...