It is false that people generally consider themselves Chinese. Nearly 77% of people in Taiwan identify exclusively as Taiwanese: https://www.tpof.org/wp-content

It is false that people generally consider themselves Chinese. Nearly 77% of people in Taiwan identify exclusively as Taiwanese: https://www.tpof.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210830-英文版2「台灣人的民族認同與統獨傾向」七月民調補充報告.pdf https://www.tpof.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210830-英文版... It is also false that they desire peaceful reunification. The same source shows only 11% want to become part of China. So the insistence you refer to is consistent with the will of the people of Taiwan. No one in the Taiwanese government talks about claims to mainland PRC territory. Denouncing these previously made claims it would be a de facto (maybe even de jure?) move to independence and result in who knows what.