The Taiwanese young are just not suited for war. Though the PLA suffers the same issue to a much lesser extent. They have gone through plenty of military exercises over the last few years. The average PLA soldier has been through far greater hardship than the average Taiwanese soldier.
The opposing armies will have different mindsets too. The PLA are fighting to right the wrongs of the Century of Humiliation. While the Taiwanese are fighting for Boba Tea, democrazy, and white worshipping. Their crazy ideals are only around for about 30 years. There is just no contest.
So 70% of them are willing to fight? It is meaningless with their crap situation. Those Boba hanjians can talk all they like. Talk is cheap. Just like the roaches in HK, they are a pathetic bunch. They can only pick on the weak. When the going gets tough, they start crying for help. These bunch of losers are not worth for the PLA to kill, but they better not push things too far. Better for them to surrender Taiwan and flee to the West to continue living their pathetic lives there than to force the PLA to kill them.
Honestly that article reads like a parody. Like seriously? Inspired by Tom Cruise?
Modern young people in developed countries are just not suited to the type of war ROC needs to fight. That applies equally to mainland people, but there's a huge difference in stress level between the ones operating drones and the ones being targeted by drones. Your average Shanghai chick isn't gonna be useful in a trench under artillery fire, but operating a WZ-8 marking out targets on a map for PHL-16 complexes, that's a lot more inline with what collage educated young Chinese can be highly effective at.
People who successfully fight back against completely enemy supremacy like the Palestinians do so because their backs are backed to a wall, with the death of their family on the line, strong belief in God and reward in the afterlife for fighting. Not because they saw a Tom Cruise movie.
And Beijing has no intention to be brutal whatsoever towards Chinese on Taiwan and back them in a corner, only the ones who lift up arms against the government will be fired at. Once these Tom Cruise warriors are in a trench getting bombed with no logistics and no intelligence on what's happening around them due to collapsed chain of command, and a mainland radio is broadcasting for rebels to drop their weapons, go home, spend time with your families and no rank and file will be prosecuted, only leaders, what do you think will happen?
That's why people saying Armed Reunification will be grind where 100 000s ROC fighters need to be driven out of potholes city by city aren't looking at the situation logically. When the dream of taking the Mainland died with Chiang, the principle that gave fighting strength to the ROC faction plummeted.
Taiwan being co-opted by DPP IJA nationalists like Lee Teng Hui and Tsai might at first glance seem like a blow to Chinese influence, but in reality it just further weakens their fighting strength. If the military fights for "defending the home" and "Republic of China" while the leadership fights for "Imperial Japan", what sort of rebel organization cannot even openly state to their own members what they're truly fighting for? Only a doomed organization.
