Could China conquer Taiwan by using a bioweapon to wipeout 90% of the island’s population to make it easier to do an amphibious invasion?
Could China conquer Taiwan by using a bioweapon to wipeout 90% of the island’s population to make it easier to do an amphibious invasion?
If you want to wallow in bullshit like this then do it in /b/, that's what it's for.
> Deploys bioweapon
> Deploy troops
> One of them brings it home
> Congratulations. You played yourself.
I wish they fricking would.
>Today, it was revealed that the Peoples Republic of China, arguably a Han-Supremacist government, developed a bioweapon to eliminate the people of Taiwan, who are overwhelmingly Han Chinese.
>When asked why they did that, a representative of the Chinese government responded with “I don’t know, but you’ve got to hand it to the biology department.”
Read it in his voice.
Considering the incompetence of Taiwan's CECC, yes.
Literally everything they have claimed and done over the last two and a half years has been a lie. They pulled the same shit as Thailand -- "if we just refuse to test anyone, then we can claim to be COVID-free!"
>bioweapon
That would be dumb, chemical weapon would make a lot more sense
It would leave all the buildings and infrastructure perfectly intact but kill everyone
You'd just have to wait a while for the chemical to disperse and degenerate then it would be safe to enter
Depending what weapon is use is what determines how long you'd have to wait, some are more persistent than others
The problem with chemical weapons is that they not very good at killing people. Consider the 1995 Tokyo Subway sarin attack. Arguably one of the best case scenarios for chemical weapons, a lot of people in an enclosed area. Only 14 people died out of a little over 1000 injured.
The reason we don't use chemical weapons isn't because they're immoral, it's because they don't work (as effectively as explosives).
>The problem with chemical weapons is that they not very good at killing people.
War isn't strictly about killing. But also your own example runs counter to your claim of chemical weapons being ineffective:
>liquid sarin deployed in extremely non-optimal conditions
>literally just poking a plastic bag and letting it spill out onto the subway car floors
>one spill was cleaned up by a janitor with a mop
>a little over a gallon of liquid used in total among the 5 terrorists
>14 dead and 1050 casualties
Now imagine if that was deployed more effectively in aerosol form, which is how chemical weapons were used by militaries. Chemical weapons are extremely effective my dude.
>Chemical weapons are extremely effective my dude.
Then why don't modern militaries use them? Cluster munitions are also considered immoral by some, and basically every country that vows to not use them has an ally that doesn't care about that. Anti-personnel mines too are banned by the Ottawa Treaty (and the treaty itself is pretty limited, you can still use anti-tank mines with anti-handling devices on them (i.e. they blow up if someone tries to pick them up)), but even that still has the US (among others) not signing it.
Because they *work*, the US is actively dismantling their chemical weapon production, that's not the sort of thing you do if you ever plan on using them at some point.
See https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/ for a more in-depth answer.
I'd like to note that it isn't my blog that I linked, it's just a resource I found a while back that talks about the topic.
Contrary to popular belief, Aum Shinrikyo's chemists/setup was shit, and they made a bad batch
Yes
>China
>conquer Taiwan
>by using a bioweapon
>to wipeout 90% of the island’s population
unless taiwan has enough radiation to have totally mutated the han chinese there in the past seventy years, theyre the same people and china would only risk harming itself
There are many Chinese who genuinely think they should nuke the island and replace it with mainlanders. The CCP is actually less moronic and nationalistic than your average joe.
I also genuinely want to see those mainland bastards get wiped off the face of the Earth with extreme prejudice, so I suppose I can’t be too hard on them for that.
t. LeMay
Are we in a cold war 2 situation yet? Can I start saying "reds" and "ruskis" more often in public now?
yes
We've already did, it's called Coronavirus In December, 2019 (you are forbidden from calling it Wuhan Virus, or the mod will ban you) and it is working it's course on slowly but surely killing off the Taiwan province population as we speak.