Taiwan opposition leader to visit China as Beijing ramps up 'reunification' push

Things will continue as normal because no Chinese leader wants to deal with the fallout of soldiers coming back in caskets (extremely rare in modern Chinese history) but nobody wants to be seen as the reason that they "lose" it. As long as ruinification the in the 5 years is seen as just as likely as reunification in the next 6 months, they will gladly wait it out.

Dude taipeitimes is like Fox News.

“*About 90 percent of Taiwanese have an unfavorable impression of China and do not want unification with China, a poll publicized by the World United Formosans for Independence (WUFI) showed yesterday.”* Majority of Taiwanese do not want reunification with China and either want to maintain the current status-quo or push for full independence. China has said Taiwan declaring independence though is a “redline” for them that could trigger war (which is why Taiwan hasn’t actually done it yet and is unlikely to anytime soon)

The older generations (60 years and up) are generally the ones that support reunification the most (polls show 10-15%). They’ll die out long before the younger generation “thins out”.

Iran, Ukraine, etc... proof that smaller countries can hang in there against much larger superpowers. Seems more of a warning to China, than anything else. 

It's not really getting support from its allies in the war currently. A few bases getting used from UK I guess? Also there's not and there won't be a US alternative for a long time. Possibly if China rapidly expands its economy through AI. Their workforce is getting much older and they will have a significantly harder time replacing it compared to the US. Contrary to listnooks belief, the US is significantly easier to move to and work in compared to China. Also English is a more common language and even Spanish speaking is increasingly becoming popular in America. Trump is a buffoon and is setting the country back, but its not possible to remove the power of America in 4 years. Only way that happens is in WW3 where no one is left standing.

Contrary to popular belief, Taiwan’s chip industry is secondary for China in a full-blown war scenario. Bringing Taiwan “back into the fold” (and who China view as a breakaway/rogue province) has always been the main priority.

These numbers are off or your interpretation biased. Taiwanese are overwhelming in favour of the status quo or in favour of deciding the future of Taiwan later on (aka status quo). > Meanwhile, when asked about the preferred direction for cross-strait relations, more than 85 percent of respondents expressed support for maintaining the “status quo.” This included 36 percent who supported keeping the “status quo” permanently, 25.9 percent who preferred to decide Taiwan’s future at a later time and 19.9 percent who favored maintaining the “status quo” for now, but ultimately favor independence. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/04/26/2003835842

Thanks for the updated numbers. And the KMT will never allow reunification tbh; they’re just pro business. I’d argue they’d pounce at the chance to cripple China at the right opportunity. But I may no longer be in the know anymore. I know China spent a lot of time and money infiltrating Taiwanese parties with spies and supporters

What’re you talking about? Taiwan has grown significantly fast post COVID, their entire ecosystem is booming. And the reason why the US can’t close the strait is by sheer political will. Less than 30% of US military equipment and soldiers are even in the region. If Taiwan takes off the entire global supply of chips that NVIDIA, Apple, Samsung, etc.. rely on I promise you they will care.

>However Taiwan's economy has been stagnating in recent years and people are losing trust in the system. Ummm.... What? Our economy is doing awesome...

This requires clarification. 67% wanna maintain the current status quo. However 80-90% oppose reunification.

67% of people cant agree on ice cream flavors i think 67% for a democracy is quite high especially depending on how the question was asked.

Not how that works, 90% oppose reunification no matter what

Taiwan saw how china treated HK, they dont want anything to do with China

>KMT also failed in their recall attempt against DPP politicians. It was the other way round actually

DPP working hard to erase Chinese from Taiwan like erasing Chinese history from textbooks and erasing Chinese from the census. The DPP is the one pushing the hardest against the status quo especially Lai who is an imperial Japan simp.

Because times have changed. Since 1991, the KMT has ceased seeking a counter-offensive (and they themselves believe there is no longer any chance), which forms the basis for the "1992 Consensus." Because the two countries are so geographically close, the abolition of the wartime regime inevitably led to a boom in trade. Not to mention, many Taiwanese were born on the mainland and "drifted" to Taiwan for various reasons. This group is also an important part of the KMT. They no longer harbored suspicions of communism, but instead, driven by personal feelings or a sense of belonging to their homeland, began investing in and developing the mainland, thus forming a path of economic dependence. This group gradually transformed into "pro-unification" advocates, hoping to achieve peaceful reunification through exchange.The debate was about when and in what form, and whether there could be better conditions—"defend the status quo", they said, "Neither unity nor independence, and absolutely no use of force." Meanwhile, the "pro-independence" faction gradually broke away from the KMT and formed the current DPP. Among those remaining in the KMT, the relative proportion of pro-unification advocates has naturally increased. In today's politically polarized world, any attempt to "defend the status quo" is seen as "pro-mainland." Therefore, if the KMT wants to maintain its existence, it can only choose to take the opposite path from the DPP, become the opposition party, and become a "unificationist" party, which is almost inevitable.

PRC doesn’t claim it ever had de facto control of Taiwan. It claims it de jure as the successor to the Qing Dynasty, and because there’s an unfinished civil war. Further the PRC sees Taiwan as a product of foreign intervention in a Chinese civil war. Since the PRC has historically been prevented from invading by the US navy. 

That’s certainly true. Depends on your definition of what China is.

They were governed as colonies. Meanwhile Taiwan was a province of China.

I think he edited the original comment to specify PRC lol

Chinese dynasties: China People's Republic of China: China

You tell me

Japanese people actually have basic human rights, so yes sure Taiwanese people would prefer that over China's claims.

True

US doesn't rule Taiwan lol. Taiwan has its own laws, elections, Taiwanese people have rights and live comfortably. Chinese people don't even actually own land (they lease it from the CCP, who own 100% of the country's land). There's no world where Taiwanese people give up basic 21st century first world rights voluntarily.