https://www.brookings.edu/on-the-record/understanding-beijings-motives-regarding-taiwan-and-americas-role/?utm_campaign=Center%20for%20Northeast%20Asian%20Policy%20Studies&utm_medium=email&utm_content=124016421&utm_source=hs_email
This Brooking piece is the most intelligent thing I have seen in a long time on Taiwan. Worth a read. It aligns very much with the views of my fellow residents here in Taipei.