[tallhappy]

I have been dismayed to watch the Taiwanese themselves speak favorably of the one nation two systems theory

This is certainly untrue.

[Quix]

I wish you were totally right.

The first few days I was back in Taipei, I was sitting in a restaurant next to another customer. This portly lady was delerious about how wonderful the Communist land was by comparison. I was shocked. She'd have been locked up or worse 30 years ago. She could have been a convert to Communism somehow. She was very hostile to capitalism and the Taiwan government. She'd not have dared speak up 30 years ago. Now, there is an old car that wanders around Taipei with all kinds of Communist propaganda on it.

There are some who talk that way. Most fellow citizens think of them as the derranged folk they are.

Some "normal" people, whatever that is, do speak wistfully of a harmonious joining in a unified democratic, capitalist China. No "normal" person I know of wants reunification with Communist China and definitely not on Beijing's terms.