Big Problem For China As Taiwan Likely Has Nuclear Weapons

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It always has and it doesn't matter. The bulk of Taiwanese civilians actually want the mainland to take over. They want their islands corrupt leadership and their cronies out and can see that Xi jingping is determined to root out corrupting wherever it exists in the Sino-sphere. The USA isn't going to fight to preserve Taiwan's last vestiges of independence. Her military is a paper tiger, infested with psychologically mal-adapted perverts and thanks to the withdrawal from Afghanistan all her enemies have access to large amounts of her military hardware and tech for study, analysis, counter measures, and potential replication. The mainland has refused to flex on the matter because they want Taiwan peacefully and they will get it.

Taiwan's leaders are simply angling for the best deal they can secure before they leave, or are made to leave. The mainland can always send assassins to deal with them afterwards.

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The bulk of Taiwanese civilians actually want the mainland to take over.

I'm curious to what you base that view on. I've dealt with quite a few low ranking Taiwanese people through my work and they don't seem to have a favorable view of China. Many of them travel to China somewhat regularly and hate much about the culture and infrastructure within China. I've dealt with them enough to know the popular web sites and how to work the translators. Additionally, I used to have VPN access through my work so I could access sites restricted to Taiwanese people and mainland propaganda sites directed at the Taiwanese. I never got the impression they wanted the mainland to takeover.

China's aggression has certainly amped up since then and maybe the younger generation would rather live under CCP oppression than die fighting it. The few older people I interacted with did have a much more "live free or die" mentality than the younger ones.