There is a creeping narrative that more and more Taiwanese would want to break away from mainland China, to be independent. Some Taiwan analysts think this is a natural way to go and eventually China would relent and give up the idea of reunification with the Motherland. This kind of thinking is simply naive, foolish and a failure to understand the meaning of unification and the pride of a Civilisation. Here are some reasons why reunification with the Motherland is top priority to all Chinese and their leaders, with no compromises.
1. No Chinese leader can leave behind a legacy of letting Taiwan go independence and break away from the Motherland.
2. After being conquered and nearly colonised by the western savages, China and Chinese people would not tolerate an inch of its land to be colonised by foreign powers. A fake independent Taiwan would end up as a colony of the American or Japanese. This is a humiliation that would not be acceptable to China.
3. A separate Taiwan would mean a dangerous enemy at its door step and would be an existential threat to China forever.
4. China as a big power, having revitalised itself, would not allow its territorial integrity to be violated. China is not the meek Qing Dynasty.
5. Do not underestimate the resolve and determination of the Chinese people to protect their own territories. The Chinese leaders are not Mickey Mouse that would succumb to external threats. And not when it is now a super power and going to be the next super power politically, militarily and economically. What is tiny Taiwan?
6. How could a few silly traitors in Taiwan be allowed to tear Taiwan away from the Motherland and posed a perpetual threat by becoming pawns of foreign powers?
When would China reunite Taiwan by force, assuming peaceful reunification fails?
1. When Taiwanese leaders declare independence.
2. When Taiwan allow foreign forces to set up military bases in Taiwan.
3. When China is ready to reunite Taiwan on its own terms. This would depend on China's military power to ward of all foreign forces, when China is ready to decouple with the West economically, and when dedollarisation is successful.
To date, the PLA has already won the advantage of controlling the air and sea over the East and South China Sea. When a blockade is enforced, no foreign aircraft and warship can enter the region to supply or defend Taiwan without being shot down. Stop the delusion that Japan or America could resupply Taiwan like Ukraine. China has achieved military superiority over the region around Taiwan vis a vis the Americans. Japan and the rest are just Mickey Mouse that are non consequential and could be taken out any time China decides to do it.
The timing would not be de dollarisation that is in progress, and the decoupling with the West economically. Economic decoupling can take effect any time as both sides would suffer the same consequences. It is only how much China would want to take, but would take when it is forced to.
China is now waiting for a more advantageous moment, and this is getting better and nearer by the day. The delusional Taiwanese, with the mindset of Mickey Mouse, may be getting a rude shock nearer than they expected. Reunification is inevitable and a matter of time. No matter how delusional or naive the Taiwanese are, none would want to perish is a reunification by force as they know they would all be cooked, worse than Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
Reunification is the only option for the Taiwanese. Delaying this is only hallucinating like a drug addict. China is real. The military and economic might of China are real. The Americans know and would not dare to fight China in a hot war. Only Mickey Mouse think they could get away with their pranks without being hurt badly. The Taiwanese people are smarter than Mickey Mouse to want to be like Ukraine or the Philippines.
Reunification and returning to the Motherland would mean a better life for the Taiwanese, as proud Chinese, and citizens of the most powerful nation, no longer have to beg for alms and be controlled and told to behave by the Americans or the Japanese.
PS. A Hokien phrase to describe the pro Independent Taiwanese...'khong come'.