They've done more than you think, although it often does not make splashy headlines. My basic point remains, however: as Bob Marley once put it, "Every man has the right to decide his own destiny/And in this judgment there is no partiality." And what goes for us as individuals also goes for communities and nations. No nation has the right to assert its ownership over an island that (1) has its own indigenous population and cultures, long suppressed by Chinese colonizers but more recently politically empowered and collaborative with Chinese immigrants; (2) has a large population of Chinese expats who CHOSE not to live under Mao's repressive regime after the civil war; (3) have since developed their own distinct cultural norms and social values as a people--what right does any nation have to impose their will on them by brute military conquest? None whatsoever. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, "When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right--it is their duty--to throw off such government, and establish new guards for their future security. The US was, after all, originally a British colony, who chose independence. Ditto for all the Latin American countries, which were all Spanish or Portuguese colonies, who all likewise chose independence." The Taiwanese have exactly the same right!