> You seem to refer to some fictional country when you use “China”. That's precisely how the One China policy works. That's literally what strategic ambiguity

> You seem to refer to some fictional country when you use “China”. That's precisely how the One China policy works. That's literally what strategic ambiguity is about. In a 1972 joint communiqué with the PRC, the United States "acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China" and "does not challenge that position." So it's talking about a hypothetical sovereign authority that extends over both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. At present, the U.S. government recognizes the ROC, based in Taipei, as that government. It's a legal fiction, yes, but one that remains unchanged since 1972. > Is your point that US policy states that Taiwan is part of the PRC? The point is U.S. policy states that mainland China is part of the ROC! Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_of_deliberate_ambiguity#Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_of_deliberate_ambiguity...