"IF we had the "want-to" I think we could pretty well put a stop to any amphibious invasion fleet headed to Taiwan before they made landfall."
As I said earlier...
Our biggest enemy in an all out war with China?
It's not China.
It's our own Government. As in Joe Biden, Kamela Harris, AOC and her squad of America haters.
If the US were to really hope to win a war against China, those elements would have to be marginalized and minimized quickly and effectively, or as active lovers of all things Chinese they could quickly derail any effective response to Chinese aggression.
Only it would be Afghanistan in spades...
MR PRESIDENT! THERE'S A CHICOM INVASION FLEET HEADING TOWARDS TAIWAN!
Uh... what? Who? Uh... (trips and falls over...)
Secretary of Communism AOC? How do you advise?
The Glorious People's Republic will cast out the imperialist capitalist oppressors and liberate their suffering brethren of Taiwan! Reunification is now a historical inevitability! Death to the oppressor!
Uh, Mr. President? What orders, sir?
You heard the Secretary of Communism... ABANDON JAPAN! ABANDON SOUTH KOREA! PULL EVERYONE OUT, BUT LEAVE EVERYTHING THERE!