Even though Beijing always claim that Taiwan is one of its territory, majority of Taiwanese would not want to live under communist rule. Hong Kong is an example, erosion of rule of law and  rampant government corruption after the Chinese took over scare the daylight out of the Taiwanese population. Currently, Taiwan is regarded as an independent island state with democracy by the rest of the world; peaceful and minding their own business with no fight with anybody. If China use violence against them, the whole civilized world is going to turn against its communist regime.