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>The only realistic way for China to take over Taiwan is via a democratic process, by a charm offensive. They haven't been doing all that well with that lately

• koheripbal 6y ago
  China has publicly said that it is very patient in this regard. The only thing that will trigger invasion, is if Taiwan makes a concerted effort towards full independence. ...and while we can say that HK protests and covid-19 have reduced the popularity of unification, it is still, on average, more popular an idea than at any time since the split in 1949. EDIT: Because I couldn't find any data supporting my above statement, I'll just throw a link with the latest (20yr) trend that mostly just says that the vast vast majority of Taiwanese want to maintain the status quo... source: http://chinamatters.blogspot.com/2019/01/ http://chinamatters.blogspot.com/2019/01/ ...and since China has said publicly that they won't act against Taiwan as long as they don't move away, then the only outcome we're going to see on Taiwan is a whole lot of nothing for the foreseeable future - even if HK students on here want to see Taiwan supporting them - that doesn't seem like that's going to happen.