UK Analyst Says China Will Be Global Pariah By Invading Taiwan

With all the recent talk of war for control of Taiwan, it's important to remember a few things. Any attempt by Beijing to invade the island by force would be a gruesome, difficult task.

Photo Insert: China's incursions into Taiwan waters and airspace have increased at an alarming rate.

This doesn't mean it will never happen but the Chinese leader who ordered an attack would be endorsing Han Chinese fighting Han Chinese in a bloody, ideological conflict with high-tech lethal weaponry, analyst and China correspondent Stephen McDonell reported for BBC.

It wouldn't matter how well the Chinese government may have believed it had prepared people on the mainland for such a conflict, pumping them with propaganda about Taiwanese splittists, et cetera.

It wouldn't matter how gloriously the war-mongering Global Times newspaper had portrayed the campaign; any images of distantly related enemy soldiers lying dead on the beaches of Kenting would be hard to whitewash.

Then, after seizing Taiwan, there would also be the not inconsiderable challenge of retaining control of a territory where the vast majority of the 24 million-strong population are opposed to Communist Party rule.

Apart from being responsible for all this, the leader who ordered such an offensive would also be responsible for causing massive regional instability, potentially drawing in troops from the United States as well as other countries like Australia or even Japan.

Xi Jinping would clearly love to reunite Taiwan with the Chinese mainland under his leadership but, when you add all this up, you can see how high the stakes are.

Despite the increasingly fiery rhetoric coming out of certain Chinese media outlets you would have to think that cooler heads in the Chinese government would not be considering an imminent assault. However, with China's rising military power, these calculations could all change within a matter of years.

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