That is an essential concept. Consider the Salk polio vaccine: before the results of the conclusive trials were announced, it was speculated that if the vaccine was 25% effective, everyone would want to have their kids vaccinated. The results came back at around 85%, and the acceptance of the vaccine was high and, because of herd immunity, it reduced the incidence of polio by approximately 99.9%. Further techniques, such as switching back and forth between live virus and dead virus vaccines at multi-year intervals, boosted the effectiveness to observationally 100% when compliance was very high.
There's nothing in the article that indicates they reached out - there is plenty in the article to indicate that the assumption of entitlement to the mountain was being made, in spades.
No they wouldn't, because they're not absolute retards that conflates memes for reality. Context behind USSR meme is PRC warning US/TW against U2 overflights over mainland, all while trying to shoot them down... and eventually PRC shot down more U2s than USSR. Enough that U2 overflights stopped due to risk and had to rely on sats (CORONA). Of course USSR jokers didn't know this at the time. Or PRC "warning" preluded to border fighting with RU, India, against US+UN in Korea, threatened to invade HK if UK didn't handover, and covertly shot at French in IndoChina. All issues less important than TW. PRC the only actor who actively fought against every NPT nuclear state (i.e. hilariously/wrecklessly not deterred by nukes) , most while outguned and even not nuclear herself, which was prefaced by the actual "final" warning - the real one with specific verbiage (勿谓言之不预也 / "don't say I didn't warn you").
TLDR is PRC warns and does, it just couldn't do much before so generic warnings appeared toothless meme, but PRC was always doing / biting, especially after real "final" warning. Now it has much more teeth to do the biting, so TW even less likely to risk.
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