"the powerful do what they will, the weak suffer what they must".
While I don't support putting nukes on Taiwan, I also don't really support going to war with China over Taiwan either. Taiwan, by itself, looses.
As to the Taiwanese themselves, well, collectively they are the weak vs the strong here, the big question being just how weak they actually are. Which comes down to how much resistance they are actually willing to give.
This weakness, on top the sense of inevitability the Chinese have been purposefully cultivating since the 70s, with American support, makes me doubt how strongly they would really resist, especially if it was clear we were not willing to go to the mat for them, which the refusal to station Nukes and almost all our actions since the 70s suggest we will not, probably means the number of Taiwanese willing to throw away their life in a pointless display of resistance is probably fairly small.
As to what the Taiwanese think themselves, to whatever degree they practically have any say in this matter, pro - china support is the minority, but a fairly substantial one:
There is widespread support in Taiwan for increased economic and political ties with the U.S. While many are wary of stronger political ties with mainland China, about half would favor stronger economic relations.
www.pewresearch.org
There's a lot more graphs in there, but most of them show an about 35% general positive feeling to china. If even 1% of the 35% who support closer political relationship with China would be active and enthusiastic collaborators with the takeover, were talking about 35,000 active collaborators in Taiwan. And there's already some signs the current business elite would much rather transition to being regulated by china with their assets relatively intact than, well, have all their assets destroyed and be ruled by the Chinese as poppers.
When your outnumbered 50-1, and about a 3rd of your population wants closer political relations, and about half seem to want closer economic relations, and may be draggable along for economic concerns, well, 50-1 odds and maybe half the population not really being up for it, if not outright 5th column, does not bode well.