If you were going to give/allow Taiwan nuclear weapons to protect itself, you'd have wanted to do it decades ago. And you wouldn't support them in developing nu

If you were going to give/allow Taiwan nuclear weapons to protect itself, you'd have wanted to do it decades ago. And you wouldn't support them in developing nuclear weapons, you'd want to have quietly slipped nukes into Taiwan several decades ago. China was far less advanced in the 1980s and 1990s, it might have been possible to arm Taiwan with nukes back then, before China could stop it. Today if China found out Taiwan were attempting to develop nuclear weapons, they'd either invade and conquer the island in rapid fashion (at whatever cost necessary), or potentially glass it entirely (that's a serious consideration for China, and a good reason not to give Taiwan nukes at this point).