China will lose badly in any conventional invasion of Taiwan. The distance is just too great to support an invasion in the face of resistance. As well the Chinese military budget is far less than Japan's. Considering them a superpower is misguided. And if they should lose in an invasion it would destabilize party authority. The Chinese are a cautious people and they won't do this.
They may try some sort of blockade or some sort of unconventional conflict, but I doubt more.
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