“Who cares what China thinks?”
China can be thought of as the abusive father in a family situation. The daughter does something he told her not to, so he kills her puppy to teach her a lesson. Yes, it’s literally that bad. For example, China might arrest a few Taiwanese, charge them with something and then execute them after they are no longer useful hostages. They did this when Canada arrested the CEO of Huawei. They haven’t executed him yet, but he is still useful.
That doesn’t mean we should avoid making dad angry. It means that when we do it, and we know what’s going to do it, we should REALLY do it. Something like flying in a few hundred aircraft fully armed and ready to fight, but flown by contractors until Taiwan can use them themselves. (Yes, that would be extremely difficult to do. But you get the idea.)
Nice idea, hard to do but possible!