I thought it was Kisinger that came up with the One China policy that every administration has adhered to since.
We acknowledge that Formosa/Taiwan is part of China, but they acknowledge that they cannot force Formosa/Taiwan to reintegrate with the political structure of People's Republic of China. Bush has restated that the U.S. will defend Taiwan from such a "reintegration" by force, but U.S. policy has been since One China policy that the Taiwanese have to go along with the fiction that they are part of PRC and don't do something stupid like declaring "independence."
It's all a diplomatic shell game that has been going on for decades now. No news here actually.
Yes. The 1972 Shanghai Communique was the first iteration of it.
You are right about Kissinger (and Nixon) being the fathers of this policy, but the above does not reflect it.
This is a major problem. Over the decades most people have come to think something along the lines of your description is the policy. And the policy is morphing in to it.
But Kissinger's policy was much more subtle and clever -- maybe too much so.
The one China policy is simply that we acknowledge the Chinese position that there is one China.
It's all a diplomatic shell game that has been going on for decades now. No news here actually
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Nothing has changed in this fundamental equation, right. We are encircling China via Japan, Taiwan, India, even Russia, etc. We are keeping them contained and they know it. Economically their situation is fragile, the yuan is crap for example. Politically we all know how a rigid communist system can unravel in a hurry. Bush knows all this and in ratcheting up the pressure on No Korea who will soon crumble. Talk about a weak link!