“We cannot do both.”
We’ve been doing both since forever. And we’ll keep doing both as long as China lets us get away with it. And since letting us get away with it is in China’s best interest, then they probably will.
“since letting us get away with it is in China’s best interest, then they probably will.”
Correct.
Both the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China keep up the illusion of One China. They are tightly tied economically and getting more so. In a few decades they would merge as the PRC sheds the last pretence of being communist and keeps its Mandarin bureaucratic state