I think the last point is valid, though.
Taiwan people are very proud of their independence.
I can't imagine how Beijing could approach winning over hearts and minds.
I've been working in Romania a while. The takeover here by Soviet after WWII wasn't ... nice. E.g. all grown people with German ancestry were sent to Siberia for at least years (lots of people in Transylvania). And so on.
tl;dr: One way to win someone's heart is by using a knife.
By year 1950 about 253,000 Rumäniendeutsche were expelled and 421,846 remained in Romania.[citation needed] By year 2011 about 36,000 remained as the result of mass migration to Germany. [4]
And for people involved in SS crimes - what do you think we should have done to them - sent them to St Tropez instead?
I think you are fully aware of that Wikipedia says this about 1944-1945, which was what I discussed:
"The Red Army occupation lead to the deportation to Siberia of more than 200,000 ethnic Germans of Romania (around 75,000 Transylvanian Saxons), Hungary and Yugoslavia. Most of them died in prison camps."
The Saxons in particular had lived many hundreds of years in Transylvania. (Or do you just approve of sending civilians to bad deaths, because of their ancestry?)
