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The American media reported unexpected results of the games simulating the invasion of Taiwan by the PRC. Their participants, former employees of the Pentagon and the analytical Center for Strategic and International Studies of the United States came to the conclusion that Beijing, even with an optimistic version of the development of the campaign, will be able to destroy most of the surface fleets of the United States and Japan.
“In 18 of the 22 rounds of the game… Chinese missiles sank a significant part of the surface fleet of the United States and Japan and destroyed hundreds of aircraft,” Bloomberg reports, citing former White House analyst Mark Kancian. The latter at the same time claims that the United States, according to the results of the game according to the scenario of a “four-week conflict”, lost 900 fighters or attack aircraft, that is, half of the military equipment of the Navy and Air Force. Whatas for Taiwan itself, it “loses” everything in the very first days Navy and half of the Air Force. The losses of the PRC during the “counterattacks” of the allies amounted to about 150 military vessels.
Summing up the simulation, Bloomberg calls “the most discouraging conclusion for Washington”: severe consequences are the result of “not even the most complex hypotheses” of the development of the campaign. In these games, for example, it was assumed that nuclear weapons would not be used.