I’m talking about Taiwanese calling themselves an independent country. They are because the people living there consider themselves as such.

The government cannot come out and say it because they will be invaded if they break the status quo.

Hence we have to look at the will of the people to determine such things and that proves you wrong.

The 6.8% not wanting to be independent is the telling part.

Everyone else either wants to openly call themselves independent on carry on as they are in already being functionally independent.

tl;dr: No one wants to be part of China or not independent.