To Karajan1:

This is not a forum for you. Although there might be a few, most of people in this forum tend to be heavily influenced by radical nationalism injected in youth education by the Communist party in the last few decades. It's frustrating that most of people here live outside of China. But they fail to appreciate the fundamental essence of demacracy: I disagree with you but I depend your right to disagree.

As a person from mainland China, I support eventual unification but it has to be peaceful, otherwise status quo should maintain until people on both sides become rational. Anyway, independent Taiwan is not the end of China. I believe China is capable to survive and prosper even withouth Taiwan.