The alternative is that China will continue to salami slice and break every marginal norm they can to choke and bleed out the (ideological) competition. Taiwan

The alternative is that China will continue to salami slice and break every marginal norm they can to choke and bleed out the (ideological) competition. Taiwan has to worry about large scale invasion but they also have to worry about China using size, lack of attention to the "small stuff" and inertia to much the same effect.