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Brigadier
Taiwan was left alone sofar because it is more advantageous for china to do that. Taiwan capital, entrepreunership help China industrialized in 80's and 90's Large swath of Chinese consumer economy export was built or pioneer by Taiwan. Latter on people who work on this plant strike on their own. It is a way of technical transfer
Case in point the semiconductor blockade right now China still lack of semiconductor engineer and she make the shortfall by hiring thousand of Taiwan engineer .But make no mistake Semiconductor is the last frontier of Chinese technological quest With that the usefullness of Taiwan as de facto independent entity will come to and end. LKY once said the same thing leave Taiwan alone because China benefit from it
But time move on. Once China master all the technology that will be the end of Taiwan and that day is getting close now. Ironically it the US policy of depriving China from high end technology will only hasten the day.
I'm talking about what happen after the conflict. How China is planning to manage the international reaction.
The inevitable sanctions that will follow
Maybe but that does not matter for now. So mentioning this is like an admission of weakness. What matter now is what US-Taiwan cooperation China is not ready to accept. After all PRC gov care so much about the relation with US and is ready to do lot of thing to appease US.US is playing with fire by testing the limit of China's patient