[refurb]

This is the golden rule of nations - no nation “owns” anything. It’s only what you can defend and get other nations to recognize.

Remember there are pro-China factions in Taiwan. All China needs to do is invade, suppress dissent and elevate the views of those few who are happy with the outcome.

And with that ‘A “rogue” state of China lead by “seditionists, Western mercenaries and reactionaries” will then have been “rightfully pacified and reunified” with China in accordance with the “will of the people”’.

And just like that…an independent country ceases to exist.