> U.S. agreed to that position Yes, but the US never agreed which government would be the sole government of a united China. > Do you really think a super-pow

> U.S. agreed to that position Yes, but the US never agreed which government would be the sole government of a united China. > Do you really think a super-power is going to accept a non-friendly island next door to it militarised by an opponent super-power allowing it to project power just on its border ? This was happening through the entire Cold War between Russia and the US in the Aleutian islands. It's the status quo change of nuclear missiles in Cuba that prompted the Cuban missile crisis, prior to that Russian troops and arms were present in Cuba without any deepening of the conflict.