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"likely not even most." Source? I know the large majority are certainly against the CCP taking over according to polls of civilians there.
by fighterpilot 5y ago
"likely not even most."
Source? I know the large majority are certainly against the CCP taking over according to polls of civilians there.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> the large majority are certainly against the CCP taking over It was even, occasionally, integration leaning. Then Xi screwed the pooch by getting impatient with Hong Kong. There is an alternative universe where Beijing was patient and peacefully absorbed both islands.
- kelnos 5y agoTaiwan hasn't leaned toward reuinification for quite some time now. Their current president explicitly rejects the "one country, two systems" concept. The previous president was a member of the opposition party, and barely won with 51% of the votes. As of a year ago, only 12% of the public polled supported reunification. Interestingly, a year prior that number was only 10% (probably within the margin for error, though). A majority (54%) actually do support outright independence, with the rest being a mix of keeping the status quo and not having an opinion. The current Hong Kong mess only kicked off in early- to mid-2019; I think it'd be hard to attribute the 2019 poll's 10% number to Xi getting impatient with HK. Even if it was 20% pre-HK-protests, that's still not a big number, and I think that would still be a stretch to assume. Either way, I expect somewhere close to 0% of Taiwanese people would be ok with China taking over via military invasion. And I do agree that the HK fiasco makes it even less likely that many previously on-the-fence Taiwanese people would fall down on the side of even peaceful reunification.