[sgbuffett]

It has been like this for 70yrs already. Taiwanese were big investors in China. Once Western powers let China back into the global trading system allowing Western technology to flow into China. Foxconn employs a million people in China.

By leaving Taiwan alone and not threatening Taiwan, there was economic integration and in the 1990s Taiwanese even voted for pro China politicians to improve relations and go for greater economic integration.

By making military threats and causing the Taiwanese people to hate China result in election of pro independence leaders.
Taiwan will naturally arm itself to better protect its way for life....


A skillful leader would know that when China's GDP rises it will attract Taiwanese back to China because it is human nature to want a better life. Look at the thousands of Taiwanese lured by the booming China tech sector jobs before the CCP stifle the sector.

In recent years for power consolidation, Xi has played the nationalism card ...be it stirring hatred against Japanese for World War 2, hatred of Taiwan, hatred of Western powers for Opium Wars, the propaganda narrative is driven by nationalist against others. Even India's Modi with a steller reputation for peace was reluctantly drawn to border conflicts with China...and the Indian free media now broadcast anti China news all day.