[k_sze]

I think that if you frame it in the context of “class war”, it all makes sense. E.g. there is the Taiwan as corporate interests and Taiwan the people.

The corporate interests don’t give a rat’s ass about who has ultimate sovereignty, or democracy, or human rights. They can’t. It’s systematic and by-design. Corporations only care about profit. As long as there is profit to be made, they wouldn’t care if Taiwan gets annexed by Mainland China.

The people, however, may have different ideas.

So we’re not really talking about “short-sightedness” here. We’re talking about different entities of vastly different wealth and power, within the same country, having different perspectives on the same “problem”. The rich and powerful have liberty; they probably have wealth hidden away and companies set up in multiple countries. They can have plan Bs, lots of them. The rest of the population, however, is stuck.