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>The easiest litmus test is just ask China. Clearly, they don't think they could beat Taiwan/US, otherwise they would have invaded already.
Except your premise that China is a genocidal expansionist doesn't align with China's words or their choice of where to devote their resources.
China wants Taiwan not because they're an "other" who they want to crush to make them feel better about themselves, they want Taiwan because Taiwan is Chinese, it's full of Chinese people, and they want to finish what the civil war started and get all Chinese and all of China under one banner. By their words they want a peaceful reunification and by their actions which do NOT involve a simplistic, far-right buildup of a mass invasion force to beat the Taiwanese with clubs but instead are concentrating on building up the Chinese peasantry with high-speed rail and renewable energy, they just don't seem that interested in Taiwan.
Taiwan is a red line for them when it comes to foreign interference, but other than that they seem perfectly willing to have them off their coast as an extra-autonomous province to go with their 5 other autonomous provinces.
China has 117 autonomous counties. It is literally not a part of the Han political ideology that the Han rule all with an iron fist.
Saying China must be weak because they haven't invaded Taiwan is like saying the US must be weak because we haven't invaded Cuba. We have had Cuba under economic sanctions for 75 years; we have tried to assassinate their leaders multiple times; we staged an invasion by Cuban refugees, we blockaded Cuba to prevent them from becoming an offensive threat. We have done 100x more intimidation when it comes to Cuba than China has done to Taiwan, and yet we still haven't taken Cuba.
The lack of invasion does not imply lack of capability.