I know several Taiwanese. Better people in the whole world, you'll never find. Though, they don't refer to themselves as Taiwanese. They call themselves Chinese people from Taiwan. They're a married couple, and she was the daughter of an ambassador, and he was a rather highly placed lawyer.

According to Tom (the former Lawyer) the Premier in charge of Taiwan at the time (this was 4 years ago and I don't know if anything's changed) preferred the time during WW II when Japan controlled Taiwan. The Japanese commited many attrocities, as they also did in Korea, Manchuria, Indonesia, all over the place, and so Tom seemed to prefer the protection of China over the protection of Japan. He was all for Taiwan becoming part of China again. There was another person there at the time from Canton, called Chin. He didn't seem to care one way or the other.

Tom may have been biased, though, because he was a small child during WWII so he probably has some rather disturbing memories of Japanese occupation. He says that people that call themselves Taiwanese are young radical groups. Another person I know who calls herself Taiwanese is all for maintaining the independence of Taiwan from China.