[familyop]

"China wants to grab Taiwan. Why do you think?"

...my opinions:

China's leaders want to take Taiwan in order to perpetuate an illusion to the rest of the Chinese people that they can generally beat the USA. That move might be preceded or accompanied with an ugly market maneuver (big sell of US company stocks and wave of account transfers away from the USA). And China wants to begin taking ownership of Pacific ocean routes for further expansion. That's also why China is working so hard on building its new PLA Navy. China is likely to move if we and/or Israel get into it with Iran very hastily without much support/agreement from EU countries that would otherwise be Iran's prime targets. That's why Iran is tossing out so much provocation at us now.

You might disagree with what follows (and that's alright), but IMO, we should help build Israel's anti-ballistic missile defense and other defenses without stopping until Iran moves on to wake the west side of the EU up. And there's more in the mix (Freepmail to you).

[dennisw]

China's leaders want to take Taiwan in order to perpetuate an illusion to the rest of the Chinese people that they can generally beat the USA. That move might be preceded or accompanied with an ugly market maneuver (big sell of US company stocks and wave of account transfers away from the USA). And China wants to begin taking ownership of Pacific ocean routes for further expansion. That's also why China is working so hard on building its new PLA Navy. China is likely to move if we and/or Israel get into it with Iran very hastily without much support/agreement from EU countries that would otherwise be Iran's prime targets. That's why Iran is tossing out so much provocation at us now.

All valid reasons. More valid than I could type out.
My Occam's razor reason is China wants more money, high tech and wealth. It can do it the quick way by subsuming Taiwan under Chinese Middle Kingdom ownership. Follow the money. China used to want Taiwan for communist ideological reasons. Now it wants Taiwan for the same reason Saddam Hussein wanted Kuwait's oil and invaded them. It's a bank robbery. An instant acquisition of wealth

Taiwan is a major hi tech engineering and manufacturing country. Same as Japan and Korea. That's why China wants to absorb them, by war if necessary

You might disagree with what follows (and that's alright), but IMO, we should help build Israel's anti-ballistic missile defense and other defenses without stopping until Iran moves on to wake the west side of the EU up. And there's more in the mix (Freepmail to you).