“I see it as we go to war with North Korea, we are going to war with China.”
Nope. Time to start thinking outside the box.
China’s “price” for abstaining from a new Korean war (with the expected outcome that South Korea will defeat the North and re-unite the peninsula) will be.... Taiwan. Re-unification.
The ultimate quid-pro-quo.
That IS good. Very good.
China reunification for Korea reunification. Gadzooks, man, I think you’re right. Hong Kong shows that China can have a democratic, free and prosperous entity. Could we have “One China, Three Systems”? I wouldn’t mind offering every resident of Taiwan a U.S. green card, so that those who really feared the Mainland would have an escape hatch. They wouldn’t have to come here right away. Just have that option if they felt they needed to. Also, I think China could understand that our agreement to China reunification means that we will work on a path for that to come about within a reasonable time period.