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If you want to deal with China, this isn't the thing. They will never bargain over the one China policy. So then the question is, will we go to war over Taiwan? I certainly hope not, as we have almost nothing to gain by doing so.
And this has definitely been beneficial to Taiwan and the U.S. Without the agreed status quo, some sort of military conflict is damn near inevitable. As it stands, China gets to say Taiwan is part of China, Taiwan basically gets to be an independent nation, and we don't have to fight a war in Asia. It works, much the same way MAD worked during the Cold War. It sucks, but it's better than the alternative.
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