Clarke disputes online claims that Taiwanese forces would simply refuse to fight. His stated basis is experience teaching service members from both Taiwan and China, whom he found prepared to fight for their countries. He acknowledges that officers sent to King's may be unusually capable, which limits how representative that experience is. The exchange therefore gives an assessment of morale with an explicit selection caveat. It does not establish how either force would perform in an actual war.
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Assessing Taiwanese resistance from military students
Claims that Taiwan would not resist are weighed against a limited sample of Taiwanese and Chinese military students.