Russia promised to support China with Taiwan and China promised to support Russia with Ukraine. As he did in 2008 with the invasion of Abkazia and South Ossetia, Putin seems to favour the olympics as the the perfect time to spring into military action. Perhaps this is because the intelligence services are overstretched to monitor the athletes? In any case, it seems to me as a total layman in matters of military strategies that China and Russia would be better off in acting together and at the same time. I.e. China invading Taiwan the same day Russia invades Ukraine. This would place a further constraint on resources available to possible oppositions and would certainly overstretch the limited intelligence capabilities of the West. Further to that, Russia and China would probably favour the final day of the olympics for their respective interventions. February 20th. As this would allow China to get the show out of the way and still use the presence of foreign athletes and sport federations on its territory as leverage.

I'd be interested in knowing what the good patriots of Sovren think about the possibility of a double invasion and what response should entail.