I only feel bad for the Chinese people in Taiwan, because like you said, chances are that even if what I think will happen turns out to be how it’d go (the US leaves after a long, expensive standoff - maybe even a skirmish), they’d take everything not bolted to the floor as “compensation” and poison the population one last time in the hopes China would have to handle some small insurgency even after they’re long gone.
I only feel bad for the Chinese people in Taiwan, because like you said, chances are that even if what I think will happen turns out to be how it’d go (the US leaves after a long, expensive standoff - maybe even a skirmish), they’d take everything not bolted to the floor as “compensation” and poison the population one last time in the hopes China would have to handle some small insurgency even after they’re long gone.
I was thinking more like they would plant bombs in the factories and detonate them if PLA troops try to take them.
That is also a possibility, especially if they depart in a rush.