Please do not overlook the fact that Taiwan has always been one of China's territories except for the 50 years from 1895 to 1945, when the island was ceded to Japan by force. Now, even if China does not announce that Taiwan belongs to China, NO other country has the nerve or military strength to take Taiwan since China is the most powerful country in the world militarily. Meanwhile, China is also becoming the biggest economy in the world which no other country can stop even though the U.S. has tried to for the past two decades or so. China's leader, Xi Jinping, just announced this morning openly: "No force can stop China's effort to unify Taiwan!" However, Taiwan has long been a totally democratic island, and the people on Taiwan have long been independently free. None of them would like to be governed by another government unless it is as free and democratic as the current government on Taiwan, be it DDP or the KMT.