[aquamar2]

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-party-congress/Xi-v...

Xi Jinping opened the Chinese Communist Party's twice-a-decade National Congress on Sunday by pledging to never renounce using force to take control of Taiwan

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/10/chinas-xi-says-outs...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has met former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and said that outside influence cannot stop the “family” reunion between Beijing and Taipei....Beijing views the self-ruled island as a province that must be reunited with mainland China, and it has not ruled out using force to assert its claims to Taiwan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-calls-taiwa...

China's "reunification" with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year's address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-be...

Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided

[ein0p]

I don’t see anything in any of this that contradicts my claim, although I can see how you were misled by the wording. “Never renouncing the use of force” is not the same thing as “threatening to use force”. Put bluntly, all China has to do to reunify with Taiwan peacefully is grow its economy and wait for another decade for the bottom to fall out here in the US. And yes, it is inevitable that they will reunify, and almost certain that it’ll happen without bloodshed unless the US makes them believe unrealistic things about an island right next to an industrial colossus 60x the size being able to somehow “beat China” militarily with or without our “help”. I pray to god Taiwan doesn’t believe this because it’ll be utterly and completely destroyed otherwise. Shit the US couldn’t even beat the Taliban or Houthis. What makes anyone believe that it can even pose a significant threat on the other side of the world?

[TeaBrain]

The idea of reunification is less popular than it's ever been in Taiwan since Taiwan's Nation Chengchi University started polling in the late 1990s. What you don't seem to understand is that unification is most supported among the older generations in Taiwan. With time, Taiwan will only become less open to the idea of reunification as the older generations die off. Currently less than 10% support the idea, down from nearly 20% two decades ago. You've likely never met a Taiwanese if you believe the Taiwanese population is open to the idea.

The US has also never engaged with the Houthis, except to protect marine shipping. There was never an attempt to "defeat" them by the US.