I can’t think of any way that this could possibly go poorly:
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian saw ties with arch foe China forever deadlocked if Beijing insists on a single country and vowed to build an independent nation despite the risk of war… Chinese generals have said Beijing would go to war if the island declared independence, even it cost China an international boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Watching the Taiwanese bottle up the Chinese navy up in the Straits would be ineresting. Watching Taiwan get turned into a charred hole by Chinese missiles would be less so.
