Structural unfairness in the Senate is a weak argument for splitting the Union. Once the Union is split, Russia, China and probably other countries start playin

Structural unfairness in the Senate is a weak argument for splitting the Union. Once the Union is split, Russia, China and probably other countries start playing one fragment of the former Union against another. The reason the Chinese government is trying so hard to stop China from splitting (beyond the existing mainland-Taiwan split) is to avoid a repeat of the bad old times when Japan and European powers were able to play one Chinese-language-using polity against another.