Question: Why Didn't Mao Invade Taiwan?

My Nationalist Chinese (Taiwanese) father told me one forgotten reason why: the South China Sea. Although Mao led a powerful insurgency that took over China, he would have needed a robust navy and air force to move troops to invade. Although the Korean War did disrupt plans like the article mentioned, Chiang also had a good moat.

This Chinese Premiere may.

I wish that whole Commie madhouse and their Hermit Kingdom lapdogs could just both be bulldozed into the Pacific, sparing all the innocents...Taiwan will never give into those Commie yo-yos, I've said it many times on here, they're just a new Commie version of Russia and East Germany, I'd thought Cuba, however, the analogy isn't quite precise as I've sought about the matter further, it:s gonna have to be a SEATO analogous to NATO, with the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, all the Micronesian countries so far as possible, containing those Commie morons till their Commie tendencies burn themselves out...what's being seen here is just normal macroeconomic evolution, just the way Walter W Rostow predicted it in Stages of Economic Growth, both of those countries are suffering from a societal socioeconomic psychosis, lulled by all the capitalism Deng Xiao Peng created, he's the one who created the whole present nightmare with hose Commie yo-yos, not so !uch Mao or Chou en-Lai, they were both bad, however, Deng was dangerously more determined, I won't say intelligent, as I've also said, evil can never need intelligent, only persistent and determined...all dictatorships thrive on rationality, doesn't matter whether a dictatorship is Fascist, Communist, an oligarchy, what have you...the Taiwanese will sink that island before they'd give in, there was nothing to do to save Hong Kong, though the whole populace shoudlve certainly been evacuated, before the IK had to leave when their lease ran out, then, the whole island should've been left as scorched Earth for the Commies, just a rock, with no population to tyrannize, all shipped out to free parts of the world...those Commie bozos can build all the artificial islands they want, no one:s falling for that garbage, they're just gonna have to be totally contained and frustrated in their aims for about a hundred years or so, the Soviet Union lasted about 70 urs or so, from WW1 til the late 80s, I'd expect these Asian fruitapcakes are likely to last about as long, or longer, minimum...those yo-yos can't defeat a SEATO composed of all the countries I'd listed, just as the Soviet Union couldn't defeat the US, UK, and NATO, they'll lose, sooner or later, they just need to be continuously thwarted, till they outgrow their present sociologic psychosis, it:s just gonna take a long, long time, that's all, that's as far as my reasoning takes me, I'd be most eager for any thoughts, obviously, I hope that was of interest at least, of course, in any event....