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Originally Posted by ExNavyAmerican
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.
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But China isn't forcing Taiwan to do anything right now. They are letting Taiwan be nominally independent. The Chinese would rather have unification be peaceful than not peaceful. The Chinese have said that they will not attack as long as the Taiwanese held to the one China principle.
Quite frankly, this has been the deal and the understanding between all sides for a lot of years. And this is the United States understanding with Taiwan as well. I think one could argue that if Taiwan declares itself independent they are in a sense provoking the Chinese to attack them.