[michpoch]

Russian army has plenty of combat experience. Russian weapons were export product and are battle tested.

China has none of that.

Russia brought soldiers from the far east to fight. How eager do you think Chinese will be to kill their fellow people in Taiwan? The communist government is not branding them as a enemy.

[golergka]

> Russian army has plenty of combat experience. Russian weapons were export product and are battle tested.

Both Russian personell with real combat experience and russian weapons that have been sold to outside customers have run out in the first half a year of the war. Since late 2022, Russia is fighting with freshly mobilized troops that go from being civilians to dying in a meat attack in less than a week with no bootcamp and 1960s tanks from Soviet stockpiles.

[michpoch]

> Since late 2022, Russia is fighting with freshly mobilized troops that go from being civilians to dying in a meat attack

The frontline troops - sure, but officers and up?

Now think if the Chinese will be willing to take part in a meat-grinder war?

> 1960s tanks from Soviet stockpiles.

You mean in a battle-tested equipment. China got some-quality modernised soviet equipment with operators that never took part in any operations.

China has certainly a weaker military than Russia before the war. And a society that might not be willing to die in millions to occupy a small island where their fellow people live, for no good reason other than political.

[MetaWhirledPeas]

> The communist government is not branding them as a enemy.

So decades of military theater from China regarding Taiwan is for no purpose?