True - they just might. But it's why autocrats suck. The previous Chinese regime was putting in more capitalistic- and expanding freedoms and reforms - and Taiwan was drifting toward that model and many experts said on that trajectory that Taiwan would have been Integrated with the mainland within 20 years without a shot fired. Then Xi and his bully boy tactics repelled the Taiwanese and now has made it much more likely it will be a conflict. Finesse and tact is not in the autocrats handbook. They are hammers, and ever problem is a nail.Napoleon sounds a lot like Hitlers path with the only difference Hitler taking his own life in the end.
China will take Taiwan.