What are things people don& #39;t know about China/Taiwan that big publications can inform us on?

1) How new Chinese obsession w/Taiwan is; how old Taiwanese movements for self-determination are

2) The chasm between Chinese propaganda on Taiwan & how Taiwan functions empirically
3) Why Taiwan has changed so much in 30+ years (this is what decolonization looks like in real time)

4) Global complicity in Taiwan& #39;s isolation & how individual decisions by the international community to exclude Taiwan helped create such a tricky geopolitical situation
5) What do Taiwanese voices sound like? Taiwanese perception of internal vs external threat, their precarious but strategic position, their sense of living in a real country only nobody seems to know it. This wasn& #39;t empty land in 1624, 1683, 1895, 1945, 1949 & it is not empty now
An addendum: it& #39;s a little odd to see an article about the Taiwanese response on Twitter to a recent Economist article that cites no local Taiwanese accounts & only 1 diasporic Taiwanese when the discussion about #TheMostDangerousPlaceOnEarth in those circles has been popping https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht">
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