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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Nothing in numbers beyond brigade/regiment level. The PLA always had the over the horizon capability in the 15th Airborne Corps. It's not the initial entry force that's the show stopper. It's the follow on that's the problem.
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well I avoided mentoning the airborne for a reason. With out a true OTH ampib force China cannot clear the missile firing shores of Taiwan enough to allow heavier follow forces in older style "LCA/LST" type craft to operate.
Last I knew the PLA/PLAN amphib capability was almost ideal for power projection in the Spratly Islands (Vietnam Phillipnes etc) but vs the RoC would be sittign ducks.
Unless China can build a corps sized formation capable of rapid transport across the straits with OTH landing capability Taiwan is safe from anything but bombardment.