Various reasons; the distance involved is large logistically speaking. You'd need something similar to d day in size. China hasn't the logistics fleet to support such an invasion fleet. And then protect as you go on.
The advantage of defending an island is a considerable advantage that is difficult to overcome.
Something that size is years in planning and months in organising, there is no surprise attack. Its not possible. It's simply too large.
The Chinese army on paper may well dwarf that of Taiwan, but as we've seen in Russia that doesn't matter. Its how you get them there and then support them. The vast amount of equipment you'd need to supply and keep any invasion force going is an issue even in china.
Geography, look at any suitable invasion beaches. It won't take long.
China has 2 generations of military that has no operational experience at all. Let alone a 1 million+ man combined arms invasion that no one has seen since d day.
Taiwan's military has had one job for about 70 years. They've also little experience, but you tend to need less when on the defence, in many ways its easier to defend than master all arms invasions.
Taiwan also has many listening stations just off the coast of china , islands they never gave/gave up to china. All full of comms and intelligence gathering equipment.
The quality of many of their troops are questionable, mainly filling posts in static units.
Having a large static conscription army and having one that fully support an expeditionary function are two very different things.
Plus other stuff I've probably forgotten from a variety of sources.
Last edited by: sooty123 on Sun 7 Aug 22 at 09:55
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