Within your goals to keep HN as clean as you have (incredibly) done, this makes sense.

I don't know how to reconcile your goals with another person's rejection of any kind of normalization of Chinese threatening of Taiwanese sovereignty. Perhaps the only option is for those unwilling to let articles get away with glossing over Taiwanese sovereignty unchallenged to get banned / downvoted to oblivion. I think that's acceptable, though sad, because I like it here.