The Center for Strategic and International Studies published a war game which assumed that China would send 20,000 soldiers in boats to the Taiwanese coast. "I think that scenario is actually extremely unrealistic," says Peter Bergen. Much more likely is that China would use its combination of Navy, missile forces and Air Force to blockade Taiwan and try to starve Taiwan in a submission., he adds.

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