To become an unsinkable American aircraft carrier and humiliate China? Absolutely. The old KMT is no more. They’re lap-dogs 100%.

In the medium-term the US strategy of propaganda is working. No reason why the residents there aren’t becoming more westernized, more anti-sino/Chinese, more anti-communist, more rabidly, ignorantly pro-white-western-order. What I mean is pulling the trigger next month on forceful reunification for China would be easier in the sense of pacification and reintegration of Taiwan than pulling the trigger on forceful reunification in 5 years, 10 years. Of course this is a trap. The US benefits from and wants to goad China into doing that to better attack and isolate them, to justify forcing decoupling on some greater, grander scale. But it’s a tricky trap because even if China doesn’t fall into it (they haven’t so far) it has a fall-back which is that the road to actual re-integration becomes harder the longer they wait. On a global geo-political level and for the grander strategy waiting at least a few years is wiser than acting now for China but it comes at a cost.