Taiwan as an independent nation has been a fact since about 1949. Once a mere province in the greater Empire of China, when the empire was fragmented, China became a number of autonomous districts, with no central government until the rise of the People’s Republic of China. Other provinces were integrated into the Communist government largely by force of arms, not really a bottom-up popular movement.
Taiwan is a bottom-up representative republic, with elected representatives with some widely divergent views on the various aspects of how a country should be governed, but even from all this diversity, some consensus has emerged, and that consensus almost universally rejects forming a political union with mainland China.
Almost universally. There is still a small minority that would cheerfully accept union with mainland China.
After watching those fights, I'd say so.
There is still a small minority that would cheerfully accept union with mainland China.
Hell, there is probably a majority of democrats who would
accept the same thing.