The whole ‘One China’ policy is absurd. Maybe it made sense in the early 50’s but it doesn’t now and it didn’t in the 70’s either when Nixion went to Communist China, opened diplomatic relations and had Taiwan (remnants of Nationalist China) expelled from United Nations.
They should be treated as two separate countries. We have a North & South Korea, and we had an East & West Germany. Still working on the former but the later worked out in the end.
In the meantime, there is no reason why we cannot deal with two Chinas. Of course it will be the people of Communist China as it was in East Germany and for a while in China (Tiananmen Square) who confect the change.
Good post.
This framework is decades obsolete.