Scenario: A Normal Future

== 2020 ==
* COVID-19 pandemic.
* Joe Biden won the presidential election.
* National Security Law passes in Hong Kong.
== 2021 ==
* January 6th riots at the Capitol.
* Anonymous hacked webhost provider Epik.
* Tokyo Olympics.
== 2022 ==
* Russia invades Ukraine.
* Uvalde school shooting.
* Republicans gain majority in the Congress.
== 2023 ==
* Artificial intelligence becomes the new fad.
* October 7th attacks against Israel.
== 2024 ==
* Intuitive Machines lands the first commercial spacecraft on the Moon.
* In a secret CCP meeting, Xi Jinping decides to invade Taiwan.
== 2025 ==
* Russia exploded tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, causing pandemonium.
* Without any meaningful countermeasures against the nuclear explosion, the world decides to cave in. Peace settlement is decided in favor of Russia who gets to keep Crimea and Donbass.
== 2026 ==
* A pro-Russian government comes to power in Ukraine.
* China intensifies military drills around Taiwan.
* Stock market crash in China.
== 2027 ==
* New mutation in COVID-19 causing widespread pandemic again.
* China starts to compromise infrastructures around the world to deter foreign intervention during its upcoming invasion of Taiwan.
== 2028 ==
* Olympics in Los Angeles.
* China starts to build up military and adopts provocative stance in South China Sea and Taiwan. Intelligence sources reports high confidence of war against Taiwan, although an accidential shoot down of a civilian flight at Taiwan Strait by Chinese forces causes the crisis to briefly ease.
* Later that year China continues preparing for invading Taiwan while spurning all attempts of negotiations.
* Presidential election in US results in hung result.
* China creates a casus belli by self-bombing an antisubmarine patrol aircraft that was flying near southeastern Taiwan.
* Naval blockade of Taiwan by China.
* Abnormal amount of data breaches are reported where many entities such as Fortnite were affected.
* China activates patsies on the Internet to spread disinformation and deter foreign pro-Taiwan movements. Sites like Wikipedia had been compromised by pro-China trolls who were able to blackmail administrators and game the system to their benefits.
* Grey terror tactics were adopted by China which causes many distractions across the world.
* Massive cyber attacks against Taiwanese infrastructure.
* Deepfake-powered disinformation by China began to flood the internet.
* Many triad members were released by Taiwanese prisons after China used a multitude of methods to corrupt and compromise Taiwanese officials.
* Those triad members were organized into fifth columns to sabotage Taiwan.
* Massive evacuations of foreigners from Taiwan.
* China invaded Kinmen, Penghu, and then Taiwan proper.
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