A Taiwanese professor's push for a Beijing-style autonomy deal has handed China's Taiwan Affairs Office a propaganda win, and critics in Taiwan call it a warning sign.

• A Changhua University of Education associate professor published a series of pieces urging study of a "one country, two systems" arrangement for Taiwan, including a peace and autonomy agreement.
• Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office seized on it, saying unification is not a multiple-choice question for Taiwanese but one they must answer.
• A spokesman claimed the model would preserve Taiwan's realities and absorb local opinions, framing peaceful unification as the best path.
• Taiwanese analysts say China is using Taiwan's own free speech to build a homegrown case for unification and manufacture the impression that unification is being debated on the island.
• The counterargument: Beijing sets the answer first, then lets Taiwanese argue only over how much self-rule they keep.

Outlook: Expect more Taiwanese voices to be amplified by Beijing as united-front material, and sharper pushback from Taipei that Taiwan's future is decided only by its own people.