Sea Lanes

[Rainbow Six]

Also interesting to note, Portugual withdrew military troops from Macau in 1974. Portugual may have deployed troops after fighting breaks out along the PRC-Soviet border in 1995. Not sure if Macau had any territorial or reserve military like the Royal Hong Kong Regiment, but I could see them forming some type of reserve type force of Macau part time soldiers.

Maybe this should be in another thread but my assumption is that, in addition to deploying ground troops, the Portugese also deploy air and naval assets to protect the territory as well as sea and air traffic to and from Macau.

The idea of Portugal deploying troops in 1995 sounds feasable enough to me.

Potential snag with any deployment of air forces might be that IRL Macau didn't have an airport of its own until the end of 1995, so after the outbreak of the Sino Soviet War. It's debatable what impact (if any) the War might have on the completion of the airport - Macau is neutral territory, so in one respect there may be no affect, but if anything brought in from the PRC (building materials, labour force, etc) might be disrupted enough to delay completion at best or cause work to be halted completely at worst.

If it wasn't finished I don't think there would be a a suitable facility in Macau to host any military aircraft (Hong Kong would be the nearest option).