I apologize, Phillip. There are numerous adaptations of history, and everyone has a different version. We never work from the same baseline, and relentlessly repeated narratives are difficult to ignore.

China and Taiwan's history is complicated because the US defended the capitalist regime during the 1949 Chinese Revolution. Peasants/workers fought for communism (redistribution of land from the elite minority) and won, and the losing government fled to Taiwan, a Chinese province.

A dictator ruled Taiwan until the 90s, but China did not want to engage in another deadly conflict and pursued diplomacy. UN members agreed to recognize Taiwan as a Chinese region, and China hopes to reunify the nation by the middle of this century through a peaceful settlement.

China has had 70 years to intervene yet hasn't because it can't reunify the nation via violence. Taiwanese have families on the mainland and vice versa - war isn't feasible.

There's more to the story, but the US provokes a sensitive situation to instigate a conflict to restrain China's global economic development. It's bonkers, and the people don't want war.