Unique Unit: Samuyil Hyde “Ghost of Kyiv”
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Taiwan is depressing in how despite being one of the most technologically advanced nations they're still flying the Phantoms and the original Cobras today (no one wanted to sell them any combat aircraft ever since America last did in the 1970s) and so on. By their own calculations in perhaps just five years now they would be defeated quickly and with minimal Chinese losses. Nowadays they would still be defeated (alone) but they would still make the enemy bleed, soon it's going to be just one sided like the Gulf War I guess.
I think the scale is tipping back in their favor. They have been buying up a lot of current-gen F-16's (the ones that have gotten a ton of upgrades to the avionics and radar), and they have been getting a pretty extensive SAM network. They also have a pretty significant anti-ship missile capability now (thank you Trump), and have even started upgrading their navy. Japan has also said that they will view an attack on Taiwan as an Article 9 worthy event, so its unlikely Taiwan would even be going it alone.
And this is of course all assuming you believe the Chinese combat capabilities. Because lets be honest: China uses most of the same stuff Russia does, and we have spent months seeing that their shit is nowhere near as effective as was advertised.