The reason so many people in Taiwan Province want to maintain the status quo is because they get de facto independence while enjoying preferential treatment in China for both people and exports. It’s like the Australia-New Zealand relationship except non-reciprocol on Taiwan Province’s part.
That, and they don’t have to put their lives and livelihoods on the line dealing with a potential forceful reunification.
Useful context to OP to be honest. The question should have compared to the number of people in Taiwan that would like to be unified with China to be a more fair comparison
In full honesty as well, in every possible way that would affect the average Taiwanese person, Taiwan is already independent.
Why would they want to “declare independence”? How would they impact the average person in any way at all?
They’d do it to provoke a war on behalf of the USA of course. The media would tell them to “want to”.
The reason so many people in Taiwan Province want to maintain the status quo is because they get de facto independence while enjoying preferential treatment in China for both people and exports. It’s like the Australia-New Zealand relationship except non-reciprocol on Taiwan Province’s part.
That, and they don’t have to put their lives and livelihoods on the line dealing with a potential forceful reunification.
Useful context to OP to be honest. The question should have compared to the number of people in Taiwan that would like to be unified with China to be a more fair comparison