i dont know who added AIT as a de facto embassy onto another wiki link, but i dont see it on their official site. you have a very warped view of what China is doing and isnt doing. im at uni comps so i dont have the article with me, but PRC and Taiwan recently had an agreement not to try and win over nations from the other. in other words, PRC has locked Taiwan with those no names. also, as far as politics go, relations have never been better. sure, some taiwanese are protesting, but it didnt do anything. PRC isnt attempting to unite through force. the option is there, but that isnt what is being pursued atm. economic deals are. even your economics point is random. there is no indication that an aggressive nations goods wont be purchased. w/e america produces whether movies, or entertainment, hasnt decreased in the slightest despite being in 2 wars. and frankly its a lot easier to give up movies than clothes, appliances, and everything else China makes.
Public sentiment is more important in the US than in the PRC. Case in point is with the ROK. If thousands of South Koreans were being slaughtered in a new war with the DPRK, would Americans really want to get involved? Mostly the US would feel bad for them, but would not intervene. However, if that involved the killing of 30,000 US soldiers; would the American public then cry for revenge? Of course. The Korean political tripwire is based upon the idea that no American politician would be able to ignore the public outcry. Another example is Apartheid in South Africa; what happened there? The US ultimately used economic sanctions against South Africa because of US public desire. Hence, if the PRC conducted itself in a way that Americans find unseemly; they would force the US government to pursue economic punishments against it. This is already so with many in the pro-Tibet faction (whether you subscribe to their political thrust or not); they routinely go out of their way to avoid as many Chinese made products as they can (almost impossible if you ask me). If a live fire conflict of conquest came across the straits for no good reason other than based on an escalation of a war of words, the US (and likely most of the world) would take a drastically poor view of it and the people themselves would change their buying habits away from Chinese products. I agree that it may not be totally possible, but the public sentiment would be there even without government insistence. That said, I again state that for the PRC to ever gain or regain (depending on which political camp you're in) Taiwan, it needs to rely more on soft touch and the passage of time. This would entail a maturation of its industries to the point that it offers dramatic and better opportunities well above those of Taiwan. Like any suitor, the prospects are always better when the bride is seen to be marrying up, and not being taken into bondage. Else, I doubt that Taiwan would be as easy to manage as Tibet. The PRC wants Taiwan in its orbit at the status quo. It does not want, nor does the world need, another Gaza.
Guys guys guys... cool it. Hehe. It is actually very simple isn't it ? If Taiwan is indeed an independent state, then why are we discussing this ? Perhaps it simply means it is not. If someone insist on calling an apple an orange, perhaps then the delusion lies with that person who simply cannot recognize fact from delusion. Amen.
