Taiwan between the relationships of China and the USA. Rise of Taiwanese Identity and its the role of Taiwan as a key to the safety of the region.

ConclusionThus, the following conclusions can be drawn.Of course, in a historical retrospective, certain accents in the politics of the main players in the region have shifted more than once. However, their main course remained surprisingly stable, due to a fundamental difference in approaches to the problem of China's unity. Without being deceived by the formal recognition of the United States as "one China", abstracting from the declarative slogans and formulas, but weakly connected with political realities, it must be admitted that China, represented by its main political forces - the CPC and the Kuomintang, has always strived for unification. At the same time, the United States, as the main guarantor of the existence of a separate Taiwan, stably remained in the position of transforming China into a "divided state." From time to time this attitude was relegated to the background, but it was never excluded from the political arsenal of the United States. In this regard, the apparent “evolution” of the problem was leveled out by an absolutely stalemate based on an insoluble conflict of fundamental interests.Let us especially emphasize that the more the PRC and Taiwan developed, the more the obstacles to their unification grew stronger. China has always been ready to unite, and even "shed blood" for such a unification. However, the solution to the issue depended not on him, but on whether US sanction would be obtained for this association. Obviously, for the United States, such a union has never seemed appropriate. First, while maintaining control over Taiwan, the United States ensured the existence of a reliable barrier - the "Great Sea Wall" (Japan - Taiwan - Philippines), blocking the PRC's access to the vastness of the World Ocean. This eliminated the transformation of the PRC into a direct threat to US interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Today, when the reunification of China and Taiwan will instantly create a superpower significantly superior to the United States in its economic potential, such a unification is, apparently, already a real nightmare for the main world players. And this is not just about the United States. With even greater horror, this prospect is perceived, for example, by the main ally of the United States in Asia - Japan.In this context, we believe that the PRC is unlikely to find any serious allies for the implementation of the unification project and, on the contrary, will face a large number of "ill-wishers" here. In turn, the United States is unlikely to be able to afford to concede and agree to this kind of association. China, which sharply strengthened in the 1990s-2000s, is a direct competitor to the United States, a strategic adversary, and "according to Trump" - an enemy. In this configuration, the unification of the PRC and Taiwan would be a disaster for the United States. Strategically, this automatically leads to the loss of the United States' dominant position not only in the Asia-Pacific region, but also in the world.It is obvious that the United States cannot, in principle, allow the transfer of Taiwan to China. Never, under any circumstances. The rivalry between the United States and China, which has been fully put on the international agenda today, makes the Taiwan problem practically insoluble. With all due respect to the will of the people of Taiwan, the role of the island is a bridgehead on the borders, an instrument of the American "containment" of the PRC. And, to our great regret, these millstones of confrontation between the two superpowers are capable of “grinding” the fate of the Taiwanese.In the context of the growing confrontation between world and regional forces, a special danger is fraught with the fact that Taiwan has become a convenient fuse that can be set in motion by either side at any time. 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