Taiwan's foremost defense analyst said a successful takeover by Beijing would turn the island into "China's Hawaii," giving the Chinese military the ability to strike at the U.S. West Coast.
Not any off the top of my head but it's been bad for hundreds of years. First the dutch (admittedly only there for like a couple years), then the Ming (also short time), then the Qing, then the Japanese (by far the most destruction happens in this period) and then the KMT. Taiwan only really started reconciling with its treatment of the indigenous in the 1990s. However I will also say that AFAIK it did not compare under the KMT to South African apartheid. Many indigenous Taiwanese in fact vote KMT today though that's changing. A similar series of events kind of happened with Hainan Island as well (though Hainan indigenous people sided with the communists, and suffered massacres for that by the KMT and the Japanese, while indigenous Taiwanese had a different experience since they were under Japanese rule for several decades while Hainan was not and had a very long period of colonization with significant interactions going back over 1000 years while Taiwan is basically not interacted with till the 1600s).
The damage done to Taiwans indigenous people, and that of the Ainu in Hokkaido are probably the most understudied instances of settler colonialism in East Asia.
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Not any off the top of my head but it's been bad for hundreds of years. First the dutch (admittedly only there for like a couple years), then the Ming (also short time), then the Qing, then the Japanese (by far the most destruction happens in this period) and then the KMT. Taiwan only really started reconciling with its treatment of the indigenous in the 1990s. However I will also say that AFAIK it did not compare under the KMT to South African apartheid. Many indigenous Taiwanese in fact vote KMT today though that's changing. A similar series of events kind of happened with Hainan Island as well (though Hainan indigenous people sided with the communists, and suffered massacres for that by the KMT and the Japanese, while indigenous Taiwanese had a different experience since they were under Japanese rule for several decades while Hainan was not and had a very long period of colonization with significant interactions going back over 1000 years while Taiwan is basically not interacted with till the 1600s).
The damage done to Taiwans indigenous people, and that of the Ainu in Hokkaido are probably the most understudied instances of settler colonialism in East Asia.