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Originally Posted by beka
Well, if it was stave off a war with China, I'd think that this would be the better solution. It seems like the current Taiwanese government is more than willing to stir up the Tiger. Right now the Chinese are for the most part leaving the Taiwanese alone, as long as they don't declare independence. But the current Taiwanese government doesn't seem to care about the consquences of their actions.
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That's exactly the problem. The thing is, if they're attacked, America is required by law to aid them. I'd have no problem with assisting them as long as they act like allies, and not like leeches. The current Taiwanese government seems pretty reckless in regards to foreign policy. The need to lighten up. But I wouldn't blame them for being adverse to becoming a special administrative region because it's not the same thing as independence. We can't just leave them to that unless they're for it; we've done to much of abandoning allies (even bad ones) in the past 30 years.