[quote=FlyerInHi]
I don’t want China to annex Taiwan. Taiwan now has de-facto independence but there are a lot of legal issues. I don’t think it’s for us, Americans, to get too deeply involved.

I think we need to accept the rise of China. But we should contain China by providing a moral and business alternative to Chinese authoritarianism, otherwise the countries who do business with China will follow their model. China is all business and development while US foreign policy is still Cold War thinking. Moral preaching is not enough… there needs to be wealth and development.

The peaceful reunification of Germany is a good model. Angela Merkel is East German and East German politician are well integrated in running the country.[/quote]

Not really a comparable model at all. More comparable model would be Austria and Germany prior to WWII, and the West allowed Hitler to annex Austria based on Hitler’s desire to unify all Germanic people.