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Apparently there's some folks worried about Taiwan turning into 
another Ukraine:

https://www.rt.com/news/627799-taiwan-second-ukraine-prevented/

There's a number of "features" to this that don't appear to be widely 
recognized:

1. "Native" (Tribal) Taiwanese are *not* big fans of Chinese, Japanese or 
Big Noses, either.
2. Local Chinese in Taiwan (those with ancestry in Taiwan from before the 
1920) have a better take on the Japanese than more recent and earlier 
immigrants to the Island.  The Meiji men were not second-raters: even 
when it came to colonialism they tried to do it right.
3. "Mainland" (Han speaking) Chinese, those who came as refugees, 
regardless of when, see themselves as a kind of "internal opposition" to 
Beijing's diktat.  

For several thousand years Taiwan has functioned as a Chinese Political 
Refuge.  If you lost a "war" in HanGwo, or the Mongols were chasing you, 
you could take your books and run away to Taiwan.  The _latest_ bunch 
are the Kuomintang who came mostly in '49 with Chang Kai Shek: they 
brought art and antiques as well ;-)

Taiwan has long been a functioning part of China, but _never_ subject 
to any Mainland polity.  The "closest" Taiwan has got to being politically 
conjoined to Beijing was under Coxinga, whose Daddy was some kinda 
High-Mukdymuk Mandarin on the run from the ?Mongols?...

I'm thinkin' it should stay that way, but then Beijing might go and let 
the Kuomintang run for elections sooo???

Dhu

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