1 Country 2 Systems has been shown to be a scam so things have changed. I can't speak for people of my generation but the kids are alright.

I agree, but I think the idea (then) was that people were very proud of being Chinese, and thought that Taiwan should be part of China. They may have wanted a different Chinese government, but not one that didn't rule over Taiwan.

Macau is doing fine.

I encourage everyone who has not done so to have a closer look at Taiwan's history.

The situation is markedly different from Hong Kong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Republic_of_China_rule

So was South Korea.

Right

It's interesting that someone thinks that people of one region have a relevant opinion about what government people of another region should be controlled by.

Isn't that exactly what most of the commenters on this post are doing?

why is that interesting?.

Are questions against Hacker News guidelines!?!?!?!?!?

Using the US as an example: Americans defer their understanding of a region based on people with tangential relationships to the region. So in America, people's understanding of Taiwan is represented only by people from Taiwan that left. Generations ago. Same goes for "China", in whatever state it was at the time the Asian-American's family left.

This is from people that actively try to avoid being insensitive. But it means there are always limitations in perspective. It requires that any one person represent the 'truth' for an entire group of people, and never understanding if that 'truth' has consensus. Cohesion in American society means never challenging the consensus of someone representing a group that you aren't a part of.

I visit Taiwan every couple years, and when I go, I make a note to ask people I meet what they think about reuniting with China. Every single time, the answer has been not just no, but an angry hell no.

yes, but this thread isn't just about Taiwan. Its about HK's perspective of Taiwan at a certain point in time and how it is easy to miss their perspective and just assume all satellite's of mainland China have the same view of what the composition of China would be. When its not true.

In the same vein, many people in the US and abroad would find Taiwan's view of Tibet to be surprisingly uncollaborative over different points in recent history.

Many people are so focused on Greater-China satellite victim complexes such that many assume they all see each other the same way when thats not the case at all.