Quote Originally Posted by Silverbackman
It seems [that people in China] cannot accept the truth that [they] have little freedom in China ... Which is why [China] can never convince Taiwan to join [it].
It's because the people in China are:
i) misled by the vast amounts of Government propaganda fed from birth and school education, or
ii) they are aware of the suppression, but have gotten used to it by accepting it as reality and the current situation as the status quo, or
iii) ignorant of the magnitude of freedom in other countries.

China isn't at all convincing Taiwan 'to join' it, rather it's coercing Taiwan to recognize itself as a part of China.

But hey, what do you expect from an authoritarian regime?