Nah, the PLA tried to invade Vietnam and got their butts kicked 😅
Chinese influence in Taiwan has a wide spectrum, there's lots of nuance. Taiwan is 23 million people -- many don't share much history or culture, lots of direction to go. Kinda amazing the harmony that has been achieved, life on this island has always been a challenge.
Taiwan identity is a fairly new phenomenon 😇 The constitution of the Republic of China is itself Chinese (circa 1911), it's only natural that certain influences remain on the island. 50 years of martial law also nationalized many industries around "Chinese", it was a fairly brutal regime to Taiwanese, hard to imagine communist spies survived that 🤭
Being labeled as a closet communist meant a bullet in the head, today it is pretty much political suicide.
The media tends to overblow Beijing influence, its a bit brainless if one think about it seriously (Beijing influence can't even win local elections), but outrage gets views. Just recently Taiwanese YouTubers exposed a scheme where a CCP-funded media company wanted to offer a free trips to China to make propaganda videos and establish a CCP-friendly political organization on Taiwan. Talk about a complete backfire when they figured they'd be better off not taking the money and sent the offer straight to news outlets 🙂↔️
Trade between Taiwan and Mainland China has always been intertwined, and has always been messy. Taiwan trades on equal footing with its neighbors. Historically the island of Taiwan was mostly a smuggling outpost before colonies (dutch, Spanish, British, japanese, etc) started to establish it. Taiwanese merchants are effectively pirates, they'll trade with anyone which is why trade in Taiwan remains diverse to this day 🤓
Lots of nuance no media can ever capture 🫠
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