> The Taiwanese are taking note of what 'one country two systems' means in practice At the end of the day, what does that matter? There are 1.4 billion who cla

> The Taiwanese are taking note of what 'one country two systems' means in practice At the end of the day, what does that matter? There are 1.4 billion who claim taiwan as part of china. Nothing is going to change that. Taiwan can note whatever they want, but at the end of the day, taiwan is going to be a province of china eventually. A lot of what you wrote is a bit hyperbolic. Taiwan is almost entirely dependent on trade with china. If beijing really wanted to alienate taiwan, they would cut all trade with china and seize all of taiwan's asset in china. That would collapse taiwan overnight. Also, the chinese don't see taiwan-relations as part of "foreign policy". They see it as a wholy intra-chinese policy.