China's Role in a Taiwan Contingency

I don't think that the Chinese leadership underestimates the difficulty of pulling this off. And China has to also anticipate that even if it lands on Taiwan and successfully builds a beachhead, that it would face urban warfare and significant resistance from the Taiwanese people. If there is full Japanese support, and if we do more to build our ability to work with our Japanese allies ... then we still have enduring strengths over the PLA," he says.