Two China?

What if, the UN decides to refer to the Republic of China and the PRC as two china as compared to one china.
 
ASB. China, one or the other but only one, has a UN Security Council veto. By the time Taiwan becomes a democracy in which seperatists can come to power, its the PRC that has the veto and will block any attempt to split the country.

Not to mention that even if China somehow lost its security counsl seat, its hard to imagine the UN refusing to back down in the face of a joint statement on the oneness of China from both governments.
 
ASB. China, one or the other but only one, has a UN Security Council veto. By the time Taiwan becomes a democracy in which seperatists can come to power, its the PRC that has the veto and will block any attempt to split the country.

Not to mention that even if China somehow lost its security counsl seat, its hard to imagine the UN refusing to back down in the face of a joint statement on the oneness of China from both governments.
Bah!
All that needs to happen is that Nixon recognizes both Communist China as China - and Taiwan as Taiwan (and an American ally). That's only recognizing reality. Yes, both Chinas would be truly annoyed, so what?
 
What if like Taiwan had sizable land on mainland China and the UK - rather early - began talks with the RoC to give Hong Kong to Taiwan?
 
Bah!
All that needs to happen is that Nixon recognizes both Communist China as China - and Taiwan as Taiwan (and an American ally). That's only recognizing reality. Yes, both Chinas would be truly annoyed, so what?

Then Nixon completely wastes an opportunity to give the Soviets a prominent middle finger through a rapprochement with Beijing, pisses off both Chinas rather than just one and throws away any potential Chinese cooperation in ending the Vietnam War. If Kissinger doesn't shoot him first.

And Nixon is not the UN, so what does this have to do with it?
 
Then Nixon completely wastes an opportunity to give the Soviets a prominent middle finger through a rapprochement with Beijing, pisses off both Chinas rather than just one and throws away any potential Chinese cooperation in ending the Vietnam War. If Kissinger doesn't shoot him first.

And Nixon is not the UN, so what does this have to do with it?

Because the US veto is what kept the seat from changing.
 
Because the US veto is what kept the seat from changing.

The seat was changed by the General Assembly. If it had been something for the Security Council to decide then forget the US, Taiwan itself would have vetoed losing its seat. Nixon did try to modify the seat-changing resolution so that the mainland would take the China seat but Taiwan would remain a UN member, but he failed (according to Wikipedia, at least).
 
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