Good I hope the government takes heed

I am seething myself (even though I think something will still happen). I’m just too proud to admit to anyone irl where I’m surrounded by libs.

The vast majority of people in Israel and USA don’t want to de-colonize either. Tough titties, the dialectic of history moves on and compradors and colonizers will be swept away

At the very least China needs to install a puppet government in Taiwan and oust the imperialists

And what happens after they seize the island? This isn’t a videogame where once you win against your opponent, their units entirely disappear and the entire area is at your disposal. Unlike the situation in Crimea and the Donbass with Russians who are sympathetic towards Russia, the vast majority of Taiwanese don’t want to be part of the PRC. This is reality, regardless of whether you believe they are brainwashed or mentally colonized or whatever. They do not want to be part of the PRC. The main reason Russia was even able to successfully take Crimea is because unlike Taiwan, Crimeans culturally identify with Russians and have faced persecution from the rest of Ukrainian society, meaning they were more than willing to join the Russian Federation.

I think a lot could be said about China and Taiwan relations, but for starters you wont get the full picture here just by looking at random polls. The issue isn't just being part of China, it also includes a significant component of being played as a pawn by American interests against their fellow han Chinese. I think just like in Ukraine many people who otherwise wouldn't want to live in Russia have come to accept that anything was better than what the Ukrainians were doing while trying to defend the territory, and so they've accepted the occupation for what it is, a chance of a better life. Ukraine was already significantly poorer than Russia.

Taiwan is already quite dependent on trade and investment with China. The their share of trade with China amounted to 180 billion last year. Taiwan simply can't afford to sustain itself without trading with China.

But the point isn't just the economics but the realy material conditions. The west will give you weapons, planes, tanks, missiles, but not jobs or food.

For Taiwan the issue will simply be how much of an economic disaster are you willing to accept for some vague idea of national identity. You don't eat nationalism. You don't keep yourself warm at night with nationalism.

The question of an occupation to me is not an issue. Everyone speaks the same language and there is already a huge amount of economic integration between both countries. Taiwanese should have no problem acquiring Chinese visas and move to the mainland if necessary.

Militarily speaking this war is even more lopsided than Russia vs Ukraine, there is no conceivable way for Taiwan to resist an invasion. The nationalists fervor to use civilians as shields like the Ukrainian Nazis is also not present. Without the US directly intervening(WW3) you should not expect civilian casualties to be particularly high.

This is different from Ukraine where they think terrorism against their own population would make them afraid of accepting the Russian occupation.

The current one China policy is being openly and flagrantly ignored, much like Minsk II (officially endorsed, de facto ignored). And just like Minsk II, this cannot hold and will erupt soon due to US provocation. The whole world is laughing at the US mockery of China’s sovereignty and China’s inability to do anything about it, nobody actually is respecting the One China policy from the west regardless of their official words.

Slow economic, political and diplomatic takeover is the nice way to go about it, but America is going to fight it tooth and nail. Siege is the middle compromise to break Taiwanese separatist factions and regain political control of the island. The violent way involves amphibious assault, artillery and airstrikes on the island.