Taiwan obviously prefers the status quo, why surrender now when they know Chyna's absolute red line is declaration of independence, taiwan will dance near that line but never crosses it, but when it comes to life and death of an actual invasion, they'll choose life and surrender. Taiwanese being ethnic Chinese are very practical people, they're not going to fight to the death for nebulous ideal of freedom and democracy. Like I said, their power plants are exposed, there's no redundancy for that, they are suffering from frequent blackouts even now. Chyna doesn't even have to land any troops after knocking out the electricity for couple weeks. The weapons Taiwan purchased from the US are obsolete junks, they are means for corrupt Taiwanese politicians to get kickbacks from the corrupt us politicians who facilitated the deal, the Taiwanese people didn't want them, and know they won't be relying on them in case of invasion, the military purchase has always been hot topic for elections there, the common people rather use that money to build infrastructures such as more power plants than buying useless junks