I need to say some thing. I am a MAINLANDER living in the US.
It happens in my homecity too. I am so sad about that. But what the Chinese people expecting now is the overall development. If the whole pie become larger, everybody has the opportunity to get more. When people become richer, they will focus more on politics and in the end finish the political reform. Taiwan want independence because mainland is poorer and less democratic. No state want to split from the US. There is no room for Taiwan to independence. What Taiwan should do now is probably to wait for the situation in China turning good enough. An anounce for Independence will surely cause a war. No matter Taiwan can win or not, it is not the previous one. No mainlanders of taiwanese want to see a totally damaged Taiwan.
I am not satisfied with local government too. But it is a situation that cannot be changed in a short period of time. If the Japanese leader of the Bush face this kind of tradeoff, he cannot solve it either.