Besides, the international forces would intervene. For many young Taiwanese, China is a non-issue. Taiwan is a country. We are different. Carol Huang visited China last August and returned less than impressed.
People spit on the street.
I wasn't very happy. According to George Chang, a veejay on MTV's Taiwan service, young Taiwanese crave pop songs from the mainland but associate them with a China that doesn't actually exist. They love them because the artists represent an affluent Chinese culture. That's bad news for a China that is determined to bring Taiwan back into its fold. It is going to be a hard task to reunite Taiwan using patriotic arguments.