Short answer: Yes. Long answer: China is still upscaling it's naval capabilities as it does have enough power for an invasion but faces two major challenges. First, how big will the group of outside support for Taiwan be? Possible considerable contributions could come from not just the US which is of course the main antagonist from Beijings perspective, but also from Japan, South Korea, Australia and maybe Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines or even Vietnam. Given their dependency on Taiwanese microchip manufacturing, a limited force from the EU and the UK is to be expected as well. It's one thing to invade a (heavily armed) island, it's a complete other thing to sustain a full siege around it for an indefinite amount of time until they surrender. More on reddit.com

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2. China is starting to get a good reputation. China has always wanted to get a good reputation. China has for a long time invested a large sum of money to improve its image and soft power. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/05/24/chinas-10bn-annual-spending-on-soft-power-has-bought-little-of-it It seems like people's opinion on China is slowly starting to change maybe because of this. You can see this recently with Rednote giving people a positive look at Chinese people. Recently I see more people defending China than usual on social media. What lol. No it hasnt, I think you are massively over valuing American teens who largely where already looking to side with what ever anti america faction they can becuase of radicalisation, as reasonable barometers of overall approval. In reality chinas dictator for life, constant invasion of taiwan airspace, stealing of IP, uighur genocide, causing the pandemic etc have massivel soured people perspective of china. Also china will invade taiwan there is one reason, the economy, their economy is collapsing and dictorships dont have stong mandates people only accept loosing freedoms for high returns, so if the ccp cant maintain the mandate with improved living conditions and a good economy they will do it with nationalism, and the biggest way to drump up nationalism is to invade taiwan. Plus they have a ton of excess men who have no hope of finding wives, so they have the man power for it. If they dont do this xi very soon will risk revolution or revolt against his leadership. More on reddit.com