Taiwan is a nuclear stand-by nation capable of producing a nuclear
weapon in one year. Since China is approx. 2-4 years away from
invading the island according to the latest 2004 Intels then Taiwan
should get the green light from the US and start making them in
preparation for the inevitable attack.
China keeps insisting on taking the island by force, even threatening
neutron weapons now... so let Taiwan produce nukes.
Doesn't make much difference though when a carrier battle group will
likely be in the Taiwan Straight, right? What are the Chinese going to
do, nuke it and face grave consequences like the DPRK? I'm willing to
bet that as invasion approaches we park two carrier battle groups
there and station B-2, F-117, and B-1 aircraft in neighboring friendly
nations like the ROK and Japan.
What a showdown that would be. It would make CNN worth watching again


Rob