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Japan and South Korea should fear that if Taiwan is conquered, they are at risk of being eventually subjugated by China in the not too distant future.
China probably won't be stopped easily but making it as hard as possible for them is the best option Taiwan has.
For Taiwan, yes. For Japan and South Korea ... it's a different proposition. There's a material difference in the state of both countries with respect to China compared to Taiwan, which the PRC has always held is a part of China.
I'm struggling to see a reason for JP and SK to throw servicemen's lives away for Taiwan. It'd be a tragedy for the people of Taiwan, but those Taiwanese people are not the responsibility of Japan's PM or SK's president.
You're missing the point by a mile and a half.
If Taiwan falls it signals that China is free to take whatever they want.
A conquered Taiwan means that China moves onto their next target.
Not really, no. China's quite content to use soft power to simply own other people's countries, I suspect China's efforts to dominate both Japan and South Korea will be quite different to the conquest of Taiwan.
This also means that any even slightly democratic society will not have a causus bellum to use to go after China, as they're not going to be presented with a military threat.
You are wrong beyond all measure and reason.
China is already using hard, military effort to take the "South China Sea."
When Taiwan falls its just the first domino into World War 3, if something else doesn't set it off first. The very moment that China feels they can start taking land, they will.