"“I’m sure that as long as they are re-educated, the Taiwanese public will once again become patriots,” he said in the interview shared on his embassy’s website. “Not under threat, but through re-education.”

Polls of Taiwanese people show that very few have an appetite for unification on China’s terms. In the latest opinion survey from National Chengchi University, 1.3 percent of respondents favored unification as soon as possible, 5.1 percent wanted independence as soon as possible. The rest mostly wanted some version of the ambiguous status."

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Re-education of Taiwan.  If that is the plan then I wonder how the precedent for "re-education" has worked out in Hong Kong?

Xi Jinping set a deadline for re-unification of China and Taiwan to be the year 2050, but that doesn't mean the deadline can't be moved.  Any investor in POET, for instance, knows full well that "deadlines" in the time schedule are anything but immutable in their realization.

Re-unification would be a feather in the cap of Xi Jinping and would, very likely, be considered the crowning achievement of his leadership in China.  He is aware of that and the clock is ticking on the number of years he has left to accomplish such an important goal.  For himself and his leadership he doesn't have until 2050.  If re-unification comes under his administration it will have to come much sooner than the year 2050. 

No one should seriously underestimate how important re-unification is to China, regardless of the cost.  That underestimation was nearly ubiquitous regarding the Chinese determination to place Hong Kong back under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party.  The CCP proved that those who believed in the one country, two systems rule for Hong Kong were wrong.  They intend fully to implement one country, one system for China and Taiwan and to use "re-education" on the Taiwanese population after they have first achieved re-unification by any means, political and/or militarily.  It truly is folly to believe otherwise and Hong Kong's destiny is proof of that folly.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/after-china-s-military-spectacle-options-narrow-for-winning-over-taiwan/ar-AA10ozLG?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=fd90cda6dcc54a09b1e654aa9f174255