If the battle were to take place in and around the Chinese/Taiwan mainlands...I believe it.
Taiwan only remains Taiwan as it is today because they refrain from speaking in ways that would piss off China.
My corp has a lab over in Taiwan. We do business in mainland China. I typically don’t pass up the chance to ask visiting Taiwanese employees during casual conversation at lunch or drinks about their views on Taiwanese independence.
Almost every single time the question elicits pretty strange responses. I’ve had almost all say, “We do not speak of such things”.
Why you ask? The Taiwanese are heavily infiltrated by communist Chinese officers. Even some of the workers that come to our campus here in America are likely Chinese...not Taiwanese. They may work for our company in Taiwan as Taiwanese workers, but be sure that from time to time there are communist Chinese looking to acquire technology.
Anyhow..drifted a bit, but to dovetail back in to the notion, Taiwan is still in one piece because they refrain from taking on China by remaining somewhat subservient to the mainland.
If war ever broke out between China/Taiwan...Taiwan would be a smoldering heap in a very short period of time.
Taiwan needs nuclear weapons. Every nation who thinks they’re covered by America’s “nuclear umbrella” needs their own nuclear weapons. Obama has put the lie to America’s nuclear umbrella. We now live in a world of everybody for themselves.