China and Taiwan Unification

One serious obstacle to reunification between China and Taiwan that is rarely discussed is what role will the Communist party play in governing Taiwan at the provincial level. It seems unlikely that Taiwanese would accept the transplant of Communists from the mainland to form a provincial government or that a significant and locally acceptable number of current Taiwanese leaders would be granted (or seek) admission to the Communist party.

The likelihood of Taiwanese political parties continuing their competition for provincial leadership would have the result of creating for the first time in China the existence of non-communist political parties that could hardly be tolerated by the monopolists of the Communist party. Taiwan is different from Hong Kong in scale as well as history. Until this political question is solved, I'd be hard pressed to see how reunification is in the interest of either side. Taiwan would have to give up existing political rights and an energetic democracy. If that didn't happen China may be letting the camel's nose under the tent so to speak in allowing a breaking of their monopoly on political power.