Taiwan's only natural resource is that it is further out in the Pacific compared to China.

Taiwan's economic strength is as a trade hub and a end-use industry manufacturing site.

Ask yourself, why else would China want Taiwan at all?

If the cost to take Taiwan is higher than the return in industry, then there is no reason to take Taiwan by military force other than out of desperation.

China's always conquers their foes by infiltrating corporate entities and turning their deeds and ownership over to the CCP-led venture capitalist system in China.

Taiwan has been resistant, because they know the scheme, but not immune.

Taiwan's biggest companies are by-and-large owned by ancient Chinese heritage families who have been propped up by deals with the Mainland China capitalist interest groups.

China's main deterrent in taking Taiwan by force is that if they are too heavy-handed they might crush the very aspects of Taiwan that make it an appetizing target to begin with. A painting may be worth 100 million dollars, but if you have to crumple it up in order to steal it, is it still worth 100 million dollars after you steal it?

Right now, the things that make Taiwan appealing for seizure are falling apart with the globalist entities going bankrupt. China has a brief window to come in and forcefully claim those companies in Taiwan before they deteriorate beyond a Taiwan invasion being justifiable from an economic perspective. After that window closes, China would incur more cost than profit in having taken Taiwan.

The way to take Taiwan peacefully, therefore, is primarily corporate.

Take control over all of Taiwan industry, buy up the land, and then "evict" the "squatters" who refuse to leave China-owned lands.

That's the Plan I suspect Patriots are trying to hijack from the CCP/China, who have been working on the scheme for decades now.

China cooked up this plan to take Taiwan. It's likely Patriots sought to use the same plan, because it was working, and instead of hand off Taiwan to China, hand China off to Taiwan.

Which is to say, Xi uses his knowledge of the CCP to "clean house" in Taiwan, set up all the CCP infiltrators for Taiwanese crimes, take down the oligarchs in a massive corporate shake-down, the under-table investments the CCP made into Taiwanese company heads comes to light, the deals are cancelled, the CCP loses all the money they invested with no return in Taiwanese assets, the CCP implodes completely, and the venture capitalist members in China demand China dissolve communist rule entirely, citing the dirty and untenable nature of the CCP that was revealed, and Taiwan's core government brokers a deal to merge Mainland China and Taiwan in order to ease economic hardships. Xi Jinping steps down, or takes an advisor role in the effort to dissolve what's left of CCP assets, and Taiwan's authentic leaders and the Emperor of China strike a deal to guarantee peace and a return to a pre-Mao, probably parliamentary, federal government.

Xi Jinping is critical in consolidating CCP power under one house for the hand-off. If he rejects this role, as it appears he has done, then none of this comes to pass and Taiwan, while clean, still has a "reformed", Xi-led CCP China sniffing down their neck.

It can still go either way, but taking Taiwan by force seals the deal on the corporations and companies in Taiwan ever surviving the storm unscathed by the ravages of kinetic warfare.