I’m not sure that Taiwan is the first concern to China.
I think there could be a lot of unfolding pushes and strategic positioning from China during the next 10 and 20 years.
China now truly exists and has vain dreams and overly ambitious plans of a global scale, they can’t force them yet and they will have setbacks and overreach and sometimes make fools of themselves, but they are here in the 21st century and their quiet days are in their rear view mirror.
China’s leadership is haunted by their country’s history of strong governments eventually declining and being followed by disorder and warring states based on regional subcultures and power centers. Moreover, China’s geographic position is relatively constrained, with even her sea access subject to interdiction and harassment. China may try to press against these limitations, but they will persist and restrain her freedom of action.