Any defense of the island will need the additional back-up from
the ''mainland''.
Taiwan's Amoy Island - that is just about one kilometer
from mainland China and facing Xiamen - had seen the
continuous exchange of artillery fire since the retreat of the
Kuomintang to Taiwan Island in 1949, and with most Xiamen
residents living in a war zone for more then thirty years.
The defense of the Chinese claimed islands in the South-china
Sea will require the platoon size defense to
have additional air and naval support from Mainland
China.
If anyone intend to turn up the temperature to claim any
islands, they will need to also lose a chunk of
''mainland territory'' as the war theatre will
surely be enlarged to draw away the efforts of the main
aggressor thrust from swamping over the lightly defended
island.
This will surely happen as a punitive reaction if the
attacker is able to takeover the island.
A larger chunk of real estate taken off the
''aggressor nation's mainland'' in exchange for the loss of the
island taken over by military force ?
This will be a good proposition for land-starved Singapore.
