I'm still not convinced that would be a good thing. As far as I can tell, the Russia/Ukraine situation is not analogous at all to the China/Taiwan situation except in the most lazily superficial manner of "larger country vs smaller country".
Regarding Ukraine, there are large territories and huge swaths of population in Ukraine's Donbas region that desire to join with Russia, because they are culturally Russian and have been murderously oppressed by the Ukrainian government for years, long before this current intervention by Putin.
In contrast, there is no significant equivalent in Taiwan. Despite the CCP's delusions of a monolithic overwhelming sinosphere, Taiwan is a Pacific Rim island nation with its own distinct Taiwanese culture and values that are very different from those of mainland China. And unlike the Ukrainian government's actions in the Donbas region, the Taiwanese government hasn't been en-masse killing minorities.
Maybe there are certain secret factors at play that I'm not privy to. But judging purely from what's been happening for the past decade or so, and what the people who actually live there seem to want, I don't think comparisons between Russia/Ukraine and China/Taiwan are accurate at all. Any sort of whitehat action regarding China/Taiwan will have to be very, very different than what we've seen so far with Russia/Ukraine
I'm still not convinced that would be a good thing. As far as I can tell, the Russia/Ukraine situation is not analogous at all to the China/Taiwan situation except in the most lazily superficial manner of "larger country vs smaller country".
Regarding Ukraine, there are large territories and huge swaths of population in Ukraine's Donbas region that desire to join with Russia, because they are culturally Russian and have been murderously oppressed by the Ukrainian government for years, long before this current intervention by Putin.
In contrast, there is no significant equivalent in Taiwan. Despite the CCP's delusions of a monolithic overwhelming sinosphere, Taiwan is a Pacific Rim island nation with its own distinct Taiwanese culture and values that are very different from those of mainland China. And unlike the Ukrainian government's actions in the Donbas region, the Taiwanese government hasn't been en-masse killing minorities.
Maybe there are certain secret factors at play that I'm not privy to. But judging purely from what's been happening for the past decade or so, and what the people who actually live there seem to want, I don't think comparisons between Russia/Ukraine and China/Taiwan are accurate at all. Any sort of whitehat action regarding China/Taiwan will have to be very, very different than what we've seen so far with Russia/Ukraine