And the Chinese military is fully aware of this. And it is believed that the Chinese military is, as you said, building up its missile capability so that it could launch a devastating strategic strike. And, it is also for that very reason that Taiwan has requested Patriot missile technology from the U.S., which Beijing has said it finds unacceptable if the U.S. were to sell such technology to Taiwan. Because it is very hard to say. Certainly, I don't think that China has much chance of becoming a democracy any time soon.
Nobody here seems to be interested in anymore civil wars, anymore chaos, anymore bloodshed.
And after 20 years of economic reform, many people now have a lot to financially lose from political chaos. Up until the late 1980 s, Taiwan was also effectively a dictatorship in which dissidents disappeared in the night and had to flee to the U.S. in exile. Today it is a flourishing democracy. And that happened because the ruling Nationalist Party changed from within. And there are many people here in China and quite a number even in the Chinese government who hope that the Chinese Communist Party will also gradually change from within.