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> It's not America's position to declare Taiwan an independent country or not. That sounds weird. Why should the US not be able to declare that they (the US)
by justinclift 3y ago
> It's not America's position to declare Taiwan an independent country or not.
That sounds weird. Why should the US not be able to declare that they (the US) consider Taiwan an independent country?
The US isn't the UN, which seems like the more "correct" body to give such a declaration wide ranging meaning.
- actionfromafar 3y agoThe US could recognize Taiwan as "the real China", and de-recognize mainland China. But recognizing Taiwan as a separate entity not including mainland China, would be kind of weird because Taiwan does apparently not aspire to that themselves. At least it would be weird without coordinating that with Taiwan first.
- samus 3y agoThere is no point recognizing Taiwan as an independent country without Taiwan declaring independence first. The US could technically recognize the ROC again as China, but that makes even less sense. Among other things, it would make the Security Council non-functional since at least Russia would never support a motion to give China's seat back to the ROC.