Deploying mines

In some scenarios in which China attacks Taiwan, it is simply a
blockade to destroy the Taiwan economy. Of course, two can play that
game. If China attacks shipping going to Taiwan, Taiwan can use her
new long range (600 mile range) anti-ship missiles to threaten roughly
1500 miles of the Chinese coastline shipping. She could even threaten
to use her subs to attack vessels bound to or from China. What about
mines? Is there any system to deploy mines via drones or missile?
Could mine deployment be done by remote piloted vessels?
In a leaky blockade scenario in which China cripples the Taiwan
economy but Taiwan also does a lot of damage to the Chinese economy by
making shipping insurance too expensive or greatly slowing delivery of
oil to China, what would happen first, collapse of Taiwan or collapse
of the Communist party of China? Would such a blockade simply cause
Taiwan to entrench while causing sufficient economic damage to China
to make people unhappy with the communist govt?

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