Is Tiwan an Independent Nation?

If you ask people in tiwan, are you an independent country, or are you a part of china? And poles overwhelmingly demonstrate this. In practical terms, look, they have a democratically elected government and military. They operate very much like an independent state. But they also know that if they began to make the gestures to actually codify that fact, that would trigger a whole bunch of responses from bejing. That might lead them into a war that they don't want. The united states has a responsibility to stand up and say, hold on, pajing, we are watching. We're seeing hatwee what you're doing."