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What would happen if the US annexes some place in the world?

How come China hasn't claimed it back in 60'years? Too busy or something?


The US protects Taiwan from China, just like Russia protects Transnistria from Moldova and Russia protects South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia and the US protects Kosovo from Serbia and Russia protects Donbas from Ukraine.
 
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Let's say the US, which is one of the 3 supapawas along with China and Russia, decides to try its luck and annexes somewhere, say a city in Iraq or say Tonga. What would happen? Would China and Russia declare war on the US and start WW3?

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The have tried and failed in Irak, but got Kuwait and company. They are still trying with Afghanistan and they've tried with Pakistan but that was too slippery for them. Still they have manged to bring havoc to every place that did not want to be subdued to "annexation". Pakistan is now trying to get the Russian MI-28 Havoc to fight the American initiated havoc...seriously.
 
How come China hasn't claimed it back in 60'years? Too busy or something?

for the longest time, the PRC had no power to do so forcibly since the US was protecting the ROC and thus prolonging the civil war and directly leading to today's situation. more recently however, the PRC's chances have improved dramatically, however the situation has also changed in that a forceful takeover is no long on the table(since the benefits of peace far outweighs war) except in the event that peaceful unification becomes impossible, which most believe to mean either the ROC begins to develop nuclear capabilities or that it declares independence as "taiwan" rather than "china", either would would mean an immediate declaration of war(or renewal) by the PRC. suppose the US were to try and annex the island of taiwan, i believe that would also fall under the situation where the PRC would immediately declare war as it constitution demands. so that would probably mean a world war and given that taiwan is one of the few situations where the PRC would be willing to fight a nuclear war over(the other being the mainland itself, even SCS and disputes with japan does not come anywhere near the PRC's commitment and willingness to fight as compared to the island of taiwan), this would not bode well for the world.
 
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