That's true but what good is a superior military if it is tied up in the mid east and can't get to Taiwan?
Things are heating up in Taiwan
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Well, even more terrifying for China is that we only committed 2 of our 11 aircraft carriers to the Iran situation.
So the idea that our military was "tied up" in the middle east would be a gross misunderstanding of the situation.
If we were forced to deal with a Taiwain invasion at the same time as the Iran situation, then we would be too "tied up" to deal with a 3rd major conflict, but I'm not really sure there is another belligerent that could supply one, since Russia still has their hands full with Ukraine.
And the commitment of major forces in Iran happened so fast that China wouldn't have had time to undertake the Taiwan invasion before many of what we had committed to Iran would have been freed up.
China can't keep their forces poised to invade at any second indefinitely and it would probably have taken them weeks to position troops and material to prep for an invasion once they found out about the Iran situation.
By the time they're ready to invade, we'll be nearly out of targets in Iran and we can probably slash the operational tempo there drastically if we needed to pivot to the Pacific.