Curious why the populists are siding with the pro-Beijing crowd. It’s not like the PRC is very populist friendly.
This should be an useful reference: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/ta...
Sure, you could naïvely buy into the whole reunification thing, but it’s not like Beijing wouldn’t assert complete control. Just look at Hong Kong, or the fact that the mainland has a couple of orders of magnitude more of... everything.