American invasions of Canada are used as a warning against assuming that a neighboring population wants political union. People who had left the United States for Canada included those who wanted to remain outside the new republic. The comparison then turns to people who moved to Taiwan because they did not want to live under the People's Republic of China. Their political preferences and the island's subsequent Taiwanese identity complicate expectations that an invasion would be welcomed.
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Canada's Loyalists illustrate the limits of expecting liberation
The Canada comparison connects migration and political identity to mistaken expectations that an invading force will be welcomed.