Originally Posted by HKDan

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I wonder if this is in fact the case. Most things that I have read on a possible Taiwan/Mainland scenario question the fighting spirit and ability of the ROCA. I know that this is only a bit of anecdotal evidence and may well not represent the true situation, but quite a few of my friends are from Taiwan and most of them have passports from some pretty weird countries. They got them to avoid conscription. I dont know how widespread that sort of thing is, but it isn't really confidence building. The impression that I get from my amateur following of this issue is that the Taiwanese are placing too much of the burden of their own defense on the US.