China Invades Taiwan (The Russian Agents Book 6)

by Ted Halstead

"Vasilyev, you will work with Grishkov in China. Both of you will be accredited as defense attachés to our Embassy in Beijing. Your mission will be to sabotage munitions and jet engines we have sold to the Chinese military under cover of performing repairs and updates. Of course, any military equipment shipped after the President's authorization for this mission has been altered here," Smyslov said.

Boris Kharlov looked dubiously at the flour crepes that had turned out to be one of their two choices. Since the other had been a rice porridge that Kharlov could see at a glance he'd dislike, he'd dropped two of these crepes on his plate.

If Halstead is describing what I think he is, I think I have eaten those crepes. Those are delicious and regional delicacies for the Fujian region.

"Let's see," Neda said thoughtfully. "Eggs, chopped scallions, cilantro, sweet soybean paste, and chili sauce. Those are the flavors I can identify, anyway."

Probably in the last few days, Ding thought. The hypocrites! It genuinely didn't occur to Ding that the PRC had also refused to sign the International Mine Ban Treaty. Or part with its stockpile of mines.

Ding shook his head. "No. The DF-16s we launched yesterday seemed to have strengthened the enemy's will to fight, which was the opposite of the result we'd hoped to achieve. Besides, many more strikes and Taiwan won't be worth having."

As the lead invasion planner, Ding knew precisely how much redundant supply capacity had been built into the invasion fleet. It consisted of the ship that had just exploded.

For all of Chinese boasting of having the largest navy in the world in 2025, they lack A LOT of hard earned experience in amphibious operations. In the D-Day invasion, the allied had more transports than warships. They constructed the Mulberry harbors AND laid oil pipelines across the English channel just to support the army. Does the PLAN have that? Nope.