Taiwan is “of course” a country and China lacks both the historical evidence and legal proof to back up its sovereignty claims, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday in a strong rebuke to Beijing and its stepped up political and military pressure.
China says democratically-governed Taiwan is “sacred” Chinese territory that has belonged to the country since ancient times, and that the island is one of its provinces with no right to be called a state.
Lai and his government strongly reject that view, and have offered talks with China multiple times but have been rejected. China calls Lai a “separatist”.
Giving the first of 10 speeches in a series called “uniting the country”, Lai drew on Taiwan’s history, including the millennia-long connection of its indigenous people to other Austronesians, like native Hawaiians, to show what he said was Taiwan’s separate and distinct development from China.
There’s a phrase to describe what I will call “China”: 分久必合 合久必分”, which translates roughly (with context) to something like “cycle through periods of separate states and one country”.
PRC will never let go of the issue.
You are also ignoring that not everyone in Taiwan supports independence. Some support the ROC becoming the legitimate government instead of the PRC.