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It's not a subjective matter of perception. The PRC and the ROC are in a protracted civil war with each other. The ROC views themself as the rightful government in exile. The PRC views them as separatists.
Settler-colonialism is about displacing and/or assimilating ethnic/cultural minority groups. It's a form of ethnic cleansing and cultural imperialism. It's fundamentally not what this situation is about, according to the facts. Not my opinion, not my perception.
The fact that you can't see how it's different means you're incapable of grasping nuance, and I don't see why I'm bothering to continue trying to persuade you. Especially since from the beginning, I wasn't even disagreeing with you. Just correcting a small error that weakens your argument. Feel free to double down more though, I don't care anymore.
Plenty of Settler Colonialism has been done as part of civil wars, because plenty of wars have the killing and replacing of identity as the motif.
Happened in the Punjabi and Tamil regions of india for instance. You can't just go "yeah but that was during a civil war" and have the ethnic violence or identity replacement aspects go away.