{"id":51754,"date":"2023-01-10T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T03:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/10\/taiwan-invasion-by-china-would-fail-but-at-huge-us-cost-analysts-war-game-finds"},"modified":"2023-01-10T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T03:21:29","slug":"taiwan-invasion-by-china-would-fail-but-at-huge-us-cost-analysts-war-game-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51754","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan invasion by China would fail, but at huge US cost, analysts\u2019 war game finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military experts said every participant would experience \u2018enormous\u2019 losses in any potential conflict<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would probably fail if the United States helped defend the island \u2013 but would come at a debilitating cost to the American military itself, according to a US thinktank.<\/p>\n<p>Military experts brought together by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/first-battle-next-war-wargaming-chinese-invasion-taiwan\">Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/a> to war game the conflict said every likely direct participant in a war \u2013 the United States, China, Taiwan and Japan \u2013 would experience \u201cenormous\u201d losses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/10\/taiwan-invasion-by-china-would-fail-but-at-huge-us-cost-analysts-war-game-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military experts said every participant would experience \u2018enormous\u2019 losses in any potential conflictA Chinese invasion of Taiwan would probably fail if the United States helped defend the island \u2013 but would come at a debilitating cost to the American m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,88,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51754\/revisions\/51755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}