No, i think they are fairly clear eyed about the relative significance of multiple factors that directly impact both the legitimacy of the ruling class, as well as china’s long term geographic fitness to operate as an superpower with strategic autonomy rivaling that of the US, at least in the pacific.
On the latter point, losing taiwan’s technical and economic resources as well as direct cost of the war to subdue taiwan would also only be a temporary setback for china if the war was ultimately successful, its geostrategic benefit for china would very likely be much more long lasting and significant than that.
On the latter point, losing taiwan’s technical and economic resources as well as direct cost of the war to subdue taiwan would also only be a temporary setback for china if the war was ultimately successful, its geostrategic benefit for china would very likely be much more long lasting and significant than that.
