"The PLA could also launch missiles that target Taiwan’s command systems, locations of great economic and political importance, or symbolic objects, as part of efforts to gradually disintegrate Taiwanese morale, it said."

Hmm, 'the buzz' around a war seems growing week by week - i worry we're sailing into an inevitability vortex. Taiwanese friends are reporting an eerie 'calm before the storm' atmosphere with the stock market shooting up and Covid under control - and the Taiwanese know a thing or two about calms before storms.

As for the post US election window - that would be as good a time as any - somewhere the decision would have already been made.