Could China take Taiwan by force?

⁣Beijing sent the largest-ever incursion by Chinese jets into Taiwan’s air-defense identification zone, leading the country’s defense ministry to announce that it would no longer scramble its own planes in response
Scrambling its own jets tointercept the People’s Liberation Army’s planes only drained precious resources at a precarious time, so Taipei will instead train its missile systems on the PLA jets each time an incursion occurs
US defense planners warn that Beijing is softening the ground for an assault — one that might come in the not-so-distant future